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q. rrenanthes Vaill. 
c Glabrous perennial herbs with milky juice and alternate leaves, 
Heads few, nodding in flower, entirely radiate, their involucres top-shaped , 
consisting of © series of equal bracts with a few smaller at the base form~ 
ing a third series; receptacle “lat, naked. Flowers whitish, tinged with 
purple. aAchenes columnar, longitudinally ribbed; pappus of soft put rather 
rigid bristles. 
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1. J. hastata (Less.} 1.2. Jones var. sagittata (Gray) 1%. Jones. 
Cop wei ee tems <0-60 cm. tall; leaves hastate, the 
blades 5-10 cme long, 25-5 cm. Wide, acuminate at the apex, the basal lobes 
acute or acwninate, spreading or decurved, the margins sharply and coarsely 
but irregularly toothed with deltoid teeth, borne on winged petioles 3-5 cm. 
long, the uppermost stem leaves passing into the attenuate bracts of the { 
inflorescence; heads in sixple racemes 15-25 cm. lone or the lowermost 2-3 
on short axillary branches, nodding in slower, erect in fruit, their invol- , 
ucres 10 mm. tall, the outermost bracts less than half as long as the inner 
series, the inner narrowly oblong,obtuse, thinly herbaceous; corollas 
Ps dull whites tinged with violet or lavender, 15-16 ma. lon:, the limbs oblong, 
S-toothed at the apex; acnenes 4-4.5 mm. long, the pappus buff-colored, 
G—9 mme long. 
Frequent in rock crevices or in rocky ground at the margins of wooded 
streams at lower elevations. 
ON Rete heath 
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