Frequent in the grassland on low hillsides in gravelly soil. 
2. M.trveximoides A. Gray. Low glabrous perennial herbs with stout 
vertical roots 5-10 cm. long; leaves 5-15 cm. long, 5-8 mu. wide, eytire 
or nearly so, rather slaucous, ciliolate on the margins and midvein beneath, 
gradually tapering, acute; heads erect on naked scapes 15-50 cm. long, the 
involucral bracts lanceolate, acute or acuminate, greenish with a purple mide» =/ 
rib, 12-14 mm. tall; corollas yellow, © cm. long; achenes 8-10 ma. long, the | ‘ 
pappus a series of flatteued bristle-like scales, attenuate, broader toward 
the base, barbed. 
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Frequent in dry gravelly prairies in or near the grassland. 
