ri) @® A, Cusickii Gray. ——> Herbs 60-90 om, tall or more with horizontal 
rootstocks, their stems white woolly, at least in the upper parts; basal 
leaves oblanceolate, 6-12 cm, long, oblanceolate or spatulate, soon witherings 
the lower stem leaves which are similar but less attenuate, 10-15 cm, 
long, 2-5 cm. broad, acute, the margin convex above the middle, concave 
below, usually entire, less often sharply and remotely serrulate, the upper 
surfaces glabrate or hirtellous with short appressed hairs, the lower 
softly woolly, especially along the midveins, cinereous; heads not 
numerous, rather showy, in more or less lax corymbs, frequently somewhat 
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panicled; involucral bracts unequal, the outer herbaceous, 8-10 mm. long, 
one or more usually subfoliar, and longer, all more or less pubescent 
at least on the upper surfaces, acute; ray-corollas 15-20 mm, long, 
lavender or violet-blue; achenes hirtellous, ( A. Jessicae Piper; Ae 
Hendersonii Fernald). 
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C Frequent in moist meadows or along streams at lower elevations amongst 
herbage, infrequently in burns, 
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A. foliaceus Lindl. > Srect peseunide herbs commonly 
50-80 cm. tall, rarely as low as 50 cm., the stems slender, often branching above : 
in—tho—wppor pantie the branches slender, ascending, thinly hirsute in the j 
upper parts with slender mostly eenend tae LLB LS tetra elehe thd deyipnptny 
sideonly; basal leaves 6-12 cm. long, oblanceolate or spatulate, their 
blades 1-5 cm. broad, often persistent, thease ,assing int® the lower stem 
leaves weichacy Similar but less attenuate ana more oblong, the middle 
stem leaves 1-2 cm. wide, narrowly oblong-elliptical or even linear-elliptical, 
narrowed both ways from the middle but obtuse or subacute at the apex, very 
blunt or rounded at the base, hardly clasping, such upper leaves commonly 
o-8 cme longs, &-15 mmm. wide at the middle, all leaves glabrous except for 
ciliate margins; heads few, Leoritery—in—come—coraurerate iniividuale> sul 
corymbose, each princinal branch usually bearings 2 or more heads; their 
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involucral bracts 5-€ mi. long, the outer herbaceous, some occasionally longer j 
than the inner and more or less Oblanceolate, the inner with acute mostly 
herbaceous tips, all glabrous but . on the margins: ray-~corollas 
qi LO-15 me ion: , violet-blue; acher 2eD-d mine lon, sparsely hirtellous. 1 
Srequent in meadows at 2500-3000 ft. elevations, occasionally appearin 
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