Gm A, conspicuus Lindl. ———-—>Herbs with slender creeping rootstocks, 
stems commonly solitary, 40-90 om, tall, glendular-puberulent except 
towards the base, thinly villous there or occasionally throughout; 
‘leaves somewhat firm and leathery, the basal ones oblanceolate, soon 
vithering, the stem leaves prevailingly obovate-elliptical, 5-15 cm, 
long, 2-6 cm, wide, usually somewhat sider above the middle, acute or 
acuminate, narrowed toward the base but\ the upper at least: rounded at 
the very base, all sessile and sharply serrate, the tecth 1,5-4 mm, long, 
salient, scabrous above, glabrous beneath; heads rather showy in terminal 
more or less flat-topped clusters, the branches usually arcuate-ascending, 
bearing small bracts; imvolucral bracts in several unequal series, 4-8 m, 
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long, lanceolate, glandular, ciliate, acute; ray-corollas violet, 16-20 
mn, long, 1.0-2.0 mm, wide; achenes hirtellous, 
Common throughout our region on thinly wooded hills or 
mountain sides, or sometimes in burns. 
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(4y> he es ver. pansus Blake, Stems 50-70 cm. tall, 
ascending, soreading-hirsute, uch branched; leaves linear, those below 
365 cm. long, 3-4 mm, wide, those above 1 cm. long or less, 1-2 mm, wide, 
all sessile, entire, numerous smaller ones clustered in the axils; all 
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more or less rough-hairy; heacs very many sgrowded along the branches; = 
jmvolucral bracts 1,5-3 mm. long, oblong, the outer ones somewhat expanded 
at the tips, blunt, the immer acute, all hispidulous; ray-corollas 6 im, 
long, oblanceolate, blunt, white; achenes 1.5 ma. longe 
Dry hillsiacs unuer Liev rine, sonners + or 3 line LOca de 
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