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Srect perennial herbs with alternate entire leaves. Heads numerous, 
showy en masse, partly dioecious, the ristiliate heads, however, often 
having some rerfect flowers at tne miadle,their involucres hemispherical or 
subglcobose, consisting of several series oi very white opaque chaffy 
bracts; receptacle convex, naxed. lowers yellow. Achenes ellipsoid, the 
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1. A. marecaritacea (L.} Gray var. occidentalis Greene. _ Srect rerennial 
herbs 40-60 ci. tall, the stems vurancning only in the inflorescence, white- 
v3 leaves narrowi; oblong or oblone-ianceolate, acute, entire, sessile, 
4-12 cm. longs, 5-20 mie wide, the unper surfaces commonly szreen and «labrous 
pappus threadiike, the bristles distinct. 
the lower white-woolly; heaas numerous in te" mine] convex clusters, 4-5 ma. 
broad, their involucral bracts 4-5 mae broad, the outer oval, blunt, the 
inner linear or narrowly oblanceolate, ali very white and ocague above the 
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middle , translucent ay—beariiwisuall a sel el a 
abe, corollas 4 mi. tall, tne pappus tareadliie, somewhat longer. 
Commo. on burns and meadows ana along roadways at all elevotions. 
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