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BE. salsuginosus (Richards.) Gray  Serennial herbs with stout 
horizontal rootstocks, the stems ascending, 50-60 Cm. tall, hirtellous; 
basal leaves tufted, some usually spatulate, their blades oval or ellipti- 
cal, obtuse or rounded, 3-6 cme lone, , 
tapering to indefinite petioles as long as the blades or longer, the lower 
stem leaves simicdeatp soon passing into smaller oblong or ovate sessile 
acute or acuminate leaves 2-6 cm. long, 1-3 cm. wide, all Leaves glabrous 
or nearly so, entire; heads solitary and terminal ox few in a corymb, 
showy, Jed-4 cm. broad at maturity, their iavolucral bracts in 3-4 series 
subulate, 4-6 mme long, attenuate at the tips, glandular; ray-corollas 
14-15 mn. lons, 2-225 mm. broad, violet or purplish; achenes 2.5 ma. long. | 
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Common in subalpine meadows and amongst bear grass, occurring also 
in meadows as low as 2400 ft., rarely in burns. 
£. He Ccommositus Pursh. var. multifidus (aydb.) Macbr. & Payson. —“>A small 
perennial 5-15 cm. tall, commonly with a branching caudex its stems slender 
ascending, sparingly slandular and sparsely hirsute with spreadi ai 83 d 
basal leaves tufted, their blades prevailingly twice ternate, the ultimate 
segments 2-4 ma. long, blunt, thinly hirsute, borne on petioles 1-2 cm. 
their margins strongly ciliate especially towards the base; 
5-12 mue long, acute, or the lowermost trifid at the summit, sparingly hirsute; 
heads solitary, terminal, the involucral bracts Ssubulate, 5 mm. long, acute 
sparingly hirsute with lone hairs; ray-corollas white or lavender, 5 mn. long; 
achenes 2 mm. long. 
Snowy Top Mt., 6000 ft., Bpling 6660; Fish Lake, 6600 ft., Splines 
Steven's Peak, Agoonm , Leiberg 1468.(G4s0 fh 
var. typicus Tayson. Leaves prevailingly 3-4 times. ternate, — ——<——> 
long, 
stem leaves linear, 
x ; 7? Post Falls, gonnson 85; Potlatch tie, Henderson. 
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Gas Se filifolius (Hooke) Nutt. ———— > 4 small perennial herb with a 
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mucii branched caudex and stout tap root, tie stems several, ascending, 10-50 
Cm. tall, branching above, vubescent with small appressed hairs; leaves 
principally in basal tufts,linear or linear-oblanceolate, 1-5.5 com. lone, 
i-2 mn. wide, entire, ashy with short avpressed hairs; neads not numerous, 
their involucral bracts 2-4 mm. long, lanceolate, acute, minutely glandular; 
ray-Corollas violet, 6 mm. lone; achenes 1 mn. long. 
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Occasional in gravelly soil or on outcrops at low elevations. => 
Spling 10440. _ 
Ee pumilus ilutt. may be expected in ary prairies, It is similar to the 
preceeding but may be recognized by the Spreading hispid pubescence, 
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