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As glauca pars Steud. ~~ Perennial herbs with stout taproots, 
the caudex frequent 
y branching; leaves 15-50 cm. long, oblanceolate or 
linear-oblanceolate, acvte at the apex, tapering toward the base, entire or 
sparingly dentate toward the middle less frequently lobed with a "few 
spreading acute lobes like a shark's fin, glabrous or thinly villous 
especially on the margins; heads solitary on stout peduncles 50-60 cm. tall, 
sparingly villous, densely so below the inflorescence; bracts lanceolate, 
15-20 mm. long, teneeedetia, acute or acuminate, the margins ciliate, for 
the rest glabrous; corollas pale yellow, 25-50 mm. lone, becoming pinkish 
in age; achenes 10 mm long, tapering toward the apex but hardly narrowed 
into a beak or if so an obscure one. 
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are considered by some botanists as +emeettes of A. glauca. The relationship 
appears to be very close. yr priamho 
8. As villosa Rydb. "> Perennial herbs with stout tap roots and 
usualiy branching caudex, the leaves 8-15 cm. Apa prevailingly oblanceolate 
and entire, rather obtuse, more or less villo both surfaces; 
peduncles often several, 10-30 cm. tall, viltees; practs 15-20 mm. long, 
mostly lanceolate, commonly acuminate but often tapering toward the base, 
villous and strongly ciliate on the margins; corolla pale yellow, 25-28 mm. 
long, becoming pinkish in age; achenes 8 mm. lone, not at a dad. some- 
ss 
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what narrowed at the apex. 
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