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Perennial herbs with stout or tuberous TOOTS , Leaves ein-e-baset—titty 
Ondine —juices Heads radiate, mostly solitary, displayed upon elongated 
nearly or quite naked peduncles; tmeie involucres of 2-4 series of erect, 
herbaceous glabrous bracts; receptacle flat, naked. Flowers yellow. Achenes 
columnar, 8-l0-ribbed, truncate at the apex, not beaxed, bearing a pappus of 
soft bristles which are flattened anu more or less expanded towards the base. 
© Bracts of tne involucre in 6-4 unequal series; leaves 
deeply pinnatifid into a few attenuate spreading segments, 
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\rarely entire /. Me nutans 
4 Bracts of the involucre in < subequal series; leaves ) 
4 entire, linear 2. lie tnpmomoides 
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1. lie nutans (Geyer) Gray. nather weedy-looking plants 10-50 cm. 
tall, wither tcoliuberouscootsy ~labrous, or sparingly provided with a minute 
scurfy pubescence; leaves much attenuated, 10-20 cm. long, mostly lanceolate or 
linear-lanceolate in outline, rarely entire, usually cut nearly to the midrib 
into several linear attenuate entire sesments 1-< mn. wide, the principal por- 
tion of the blaie 2-5 mm. wide, peduncles exceeding the leaves, somewhat en- 
larged in the upper portions; heads 10-20 flowerea, the buds narrowly ovatee 
attenuate, nodding; bracts of the involucre in 5 or 4 series, the outermost 
subulate or linear, 5-5 mm. long, the inner gradually larger, lanceolate, atten- 
uate, the innermost series 12-18 mn. long, all thinly scurfy-pubescent; corollas 
yellow, the outermost somewhat longer than the bracts; achenes minutely scabrous, 
6 mme long, the pappus white, its expanded portion oblong, 1 mm. long. 
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