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a5 Ee speciosus DC..—_ > Perennial herbs with several ascending stems, 
30-60 om, tall, leafy throughout, nearly glabrous; basal leaves narrowly 
oblanceolate, 4-8 cm. long, the lower stem leaves more attenuate, the 
petioles of both ciliate, these passing into the narrowly oblong upper 3 
leaves which are 2,.5-6 cm. long, 5-10 mm, broad, prevailingly acute, | 
rounded at the base and sessile, with ciliate margins, all entire, the 
surfaces of all glabrate, bearing a few spreading hairs; heads few, soli- 
2 ais 
tary and terminal or few in corymbs, their involucral bracts subulate, 
5-7 mm, long, attenuate at the apex, minutely glandular, hirsute at the ' 
very bases; ray-corollas lavender or violet, 12-14 mm, long, .8 mm, wide; 
achenes 1,5 mm, longe 
w Frequent in subalpine meadows and along stream bottoms chiefly above 
3000 fte3; very close to BE. macranthus, 
