THISTLE FAMILY 963 



Plant decidedly pubescent. 5. A. Forwoodii. 



Perennials, with a roptstock or caudex; heads nodding at least at first. 

 Plant 3-10 dm. high; stem leafy. 



Stem tall, very leafy, 4-10 dm. high; bracts acute or acutish. 



6. A. pacified. 

 Stem lower, 3-5 dm. high; stem-leaves rather small and scattered; bracts 



obtuse or rounded at the apex. 7. A. camporum. 



Plant less than 1 dm. high; stem scapiform; stem-leaves minute. 



18. A. minuta. 

 Heads larger, 4-5 mm. broad, not very numerous (except in A. Bourgeauana), in narrow 



spike-like panicles; plants low, rarely 3 dm. high. 

 Involucral bracts glabrous or nearly so; disk-corollas glabrous. 



8. A. MacCallae. 

 Involucral bracts more or less villous ; disk-corollas usually with a few hairs on the 



lobes. 

 Plant 3-4 dm. high; heads very numerous, in a dense panicle. 



9. A. Bourgeauana. 

 Plant 1-3 dm. high; heads fewer, usually a spike-like panicle or racemose. 



10. A. spithamaea. 



II. FILIFOLIAE. 



Taller shrubs, 3-10 dm. high, with numerous heads in leafy panicles; heads 3-7-flowered. 



11. A. filifolia. 



Low undershrubs, less than 1.5 dm. high, with racemose inflorescence; heads 10-15- 



flowered. 



Leaves ternate or biternate. 12. A. pedatifida. 



Leaves pinnatifid with 5-7 divisions . 18. A. minuta. 



III. FRIGIDAE. 



Plant tall, 610 dm. high, erect; leaves twice or thrice pinnatifld. 13. A. Absinthium. 

 Plant lower, 2-4 dm. high, often decumbent at base; leaves twice ternate. 



14. A. frigida. 



IV. LANATAE. 



Basal leaves twice pinnatifid into linear divisions; stem-leaves pinnate; heads 5-12. 



15. A. scopulorum. 

 Basal leaves pinnatifid into 3-5 linear-oblanceolate approximate divisions; stem-leaves 



ternately cleft or entire; heads 1-4. 16. A. Patter soni. 



V. ANNUAE. 

 One species. 17. A. biennis. 



VI. NORVEGICAE. 



Heads 6-10 mm. broad, usually more than 40-flowered; corollas hairy or rarely glabrous; 



bracts with fuscous margins. 

 Plant more or less pubescent, at least on the leaves and peduncles. 



Plant silvery-silky; basal leaves 6 cm. long or less, pinnatifid or bipinnatifid with 



few divisions. 



Plant less than 1 dm. high; leaves 1-1.5 cm. long; involucral bracts with in- 

 conspicuous light brown margins, slightly tomentose, soon glabrous. 



18. A. minuta. 

 Plant 1-3 dm. high; leaves 2-6 cm. long; involucral bracts with conspicuous 



dark brown or blackish scarious margins. 19. A. Tyrrellii. 



Plant green; leaves twice pinnatifid, the basal ones more than 1 cm. long. 



Leaves and stem decidedly hairy; inner bracts ovate, acute, with narrowly 



lanceolate green center. 20. A. saxicola. 



Leaves sparingly pubescent or glabrate; stem glabrous or nearly so; inner 

 bracts obovate, obtuse or rarely acutish, with broadly lanceolate green 

 center. 21. A. arctica. 



Plant glabrous. 22. A. laevigata. 



Heads 5-6 mm, broad, 30-40-flowered ; corolla glandular-granulif erous ; plant glabrous; 

 bracts with Light brown margins. 23. A. Parryi. 



VII. FRANSERIOIDES. 

 One species. 24. A. franserioides. 



VIII. VULGARES. 



Leaf-segments again divided or lobed. 



Inflorescence much branched, pyramidal; heads very numerous; involucre campanu- 

 late, 4 mm. high, 10-30-flowered; leaf-segments obovate in outline. 



25. A. vulgaris. 

 Inflorescence narrow, cylindric; heads fewer; involucre hemispheric, 3 mm. high, 25- 



35-flowered; leaf-segments lanceolate, short, acute. 26. A. incompta. 



Leaves or their segments entire or nearly so. 



Heads not very numerous, comparatively large, 25-50-flowered ; involucre hemis- 

 pheric. 

 Inflorescence spike-like; suffruticose with a woody base; leaves coarse-toothed. 



28. A. Leibergii. 

 Inflorescence open-paniculate. 



Leaves lanceolate, thin, deeply lobed; involucre glabrous or nearly so. 



27. A. elatior. 



