Gs A, modestus Lindl, “—_— Herbs with horizontal rootstocks, the 
stems 40-100 cm, tall, branching towards the apex, densely glandular 
with stout short glands in the upper parts, more or less villous with 
slender hairs in the lower ; “see basal leaves oblanceolate, Soon withering, 
the stem leaves prevailingly oblong-elliptical, 5-15 om, long, 8=25 mm, 
broad, usually tapering lightly both ways from the middle but rounded at 
the bese, sessile and Clasping, acuftinate at the apex, some usually 
entire, some sparingly and renotely toothed above the middle, the teeth 
salient and acute, their upver surfaces scabrous with short sharp hairs, 
the lower thinly villous, the upper leaves Glandular as well, those of 
Onin 
the inflorescence chiefly glandular alow ; involucral bracts 6=<8 mm, long, 
the outer green, linear-oblong, the inner linesr-lanceolate, acute, 
commonly thimer end purplish, all glandular; ray-corollas reddish-purple, 
qu 10-12 mm. long, 1.5 m, wide; achenes 2,5=3 mm, long, hirtellous, ribbed, 
Common throughout our region at low elevations in meadows, along 
streams or in burns; rarely above 4000 ft, 
