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es Te latifolium (Hook.) Greene, A perennial herb from a stout root, 
with slender rhizomes, the erect stems 5-25 cm. tall, appressed=hirtellous; 
stipules green, 10-20 ma, long, leaflets very variable in Size, 6-35 mm, 
long, rhombic-ovate, or obovate, obtuse or rounded, the margins erose-den- 
ticulate, the teeth terminating in minute Spinesythe lower surface appre ssede y’ 
hirtellous, petioles 2-10 cm, longs; flowers whitish, tinged with lavender, 
reflexed and brovm in age, the heads 2,5=3 cm, broad, borne on axillary 
peduncles 2-6 cm, long, the bracts minute, membranous, ovate; calyx 5-6 mm, 
long, hirtellous, the tube camopanulate, the teeth subulate, very acute, 
Sa4,0 mm, long, subequal; corolla slender, 11-15 mn, long, the banner 
exceeding the wings and keels; pods 5-6 mn, long, compressed obovate, 
hirtellous l-seeded. (T. Aitoni Rydb,). 
Frequent in grassy open places and meadows. Geyer 659 from Coeur 
d'Alene Mts, near St. Josephs is the type (Hook, Herb, at Kew). 
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