> Herbs 50-60 cm. tall with slender, 
Gms A, Fremontii (T. & Ge) 
usually unbranched stems thinly hirsute in the upper parts with slender 
mostly ascending hairs; basal leaves quickly withering, 6-8 cm, long, 
8-15 mm, wide, narrowly oblanceolate, the stem leaves linear-oblong, 
acute, not markedly tapering below the middle, or concave, clasping at 
the base, entire, 4-12 cm. long, rarely more than 1 cm, wide, entire, 
: glabrate except for a ciliate margin; heads few, comnonly in racemes 
upon nearly or quite naked peduncles 1=4 om, long or more, or if longer, 
bearing one or two small leaves toward the apex; involucral bracts 5<8 TM, 
long, lanceolate, acute, the outer herbaceous, the inner with acute 
herbaceous tips, glabrous but ciliolate upon the margins; ray corollas 
11-14 mm, long, violet-blue; achenes not seen, 
Rich meadows along streams or lakes, 
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A. Canbyi (Gray) Vasey. — —> Erect pereuniae herbs 
60-60 cm. tall, the stems slenuer, Vilious in the upper parts with soreading 
more or less woolly hairs . sb}; basal leaves 
12 cm.(wide', soon withering, ower stem leaves which» 
ere similar but less attenuate, more elliptical-oblanceolate, narrowed below 
the middle but broadening again at the sessile clasping - pase, the upper 
Stem leaves prevailingly oblonc, often broadest near the base, tapering near 
the apex, 6-9 cm. long, 1-3 cm. wide, the claspin= base rarel: less than 
i cm. wide, all glabrous on both Surfaces, the margins ciliate; heads fre- 
quently solitary, rarely more than five or six in a loose corymb , their 
inwolucral bracts largely green and herbaceous » Unequal, the outer commonly 
Longer than the inner, an occasional one as much aS «25 cme long and sub- 
POliar, frequently 5-4 mm. broad, though commonly 6- 10 me lone and 1,.5- 
ed me broad, 211 glabrous but with ciliate margins; ray-corollas violetes =7 
blue, 15-25 ram» long; achenes hirtellous. 
Comion in subalpine meadows and alons subalpine streams, rarely as low 
as 5000 ft. in subalrine commmities. ; 
