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or less woody rootstocks, the sea “0-40 Cie tall, more or less ; woolly; basal | 
leaves obovate or spatulate, 13-05 moe long, 5-12 ma. wide, mostly tapering to i 
an indefinite etiole, tne upper surface sreen anu nearly glabrous, the lower : 
densely wiite-wooliy; stem-leaves linear-oblong, 1.5-2 mn. wide, acute, sessile; i 
heads of the ristillate plants borne in globose clusters at the tirs of the 
stems, wie peduncles being as much as © cme long at maturity, usually less, 
their involucres 7-8 mm. tall, the bracts narrowly lanceolate, acute, sreen and 
membranous velow, wool.iy at the base, brownish toward the middle or some 
prownish throughout, t.ie tips being white and scarious; achenes 1.5 m. long, 
cylindrical, sparingly glandular, the pappus soft and white, 7 mm. long; stam 
inate plants unknown to me. 
Frequent in open places anu open dry woods at lower elevations. 
Ae luzuloides 1.% G. > Tuf ted woolly perennials with sevsral or 
“numerous stems arising from the same branching caudex, 20-40 cm. tall, the 
basal leaves oblanceolate, 1.5-5 cm. lony, 2.5-6 mn. Wiae, the cauline leaves 
prevailingly linear, acute ai both ends 6-5 cm. lonr; heads in flat-tovned 
Clusters which may infrequentiy te so dense as to be Subglopose, those of the 
pistillate plants 4.5-5 m.. tall, their bracts scarious in 4-5 unequal series, 
the outermost oval cr ovate, tne innermost narrowly lanceolate, acute, Sil more 
less tinged with spain vie flowers tinged with rose-color, the achenes 
1.5 mm. long, sparsely s> 1eu with minute blunt: ;leands; heads ov the stamin- 
ave plants semi-<loLose, mne tali, the outer tracts similar to those of the 
pistillate plants, the inner oblong, very blunt, firm and rure white at the 
tips, widely spreading and persistent in age, the pawpus of the male flowers 
stronsly dilated at the tins, .<5 mm. broad, »ure white. 
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Frequent in gravelly soil on open slopes near the grassland. 
A. media Greene. Low, 
with creeping branching roots toc: (S, the fl 
leaves oblanceolate and spatulate, "as 15 mn. jong, 2-4 mn. wide, 120s tly obtuse 
mee weal hy On both Surfaces, the stem leaves mostly 1 linear; heads in dense 
globose Clusters, the involucral bracts of the pistillate heads 425-545 mn 
Lone, Oblon:-lanceolate, in 2-% Series, very thin and membranous =reen oer wooliy 
in the lower half, blackisn in tne upper, the tins acute ana gonechat lacerate; : 
Staninate plants unknown mes) achenes 1 ma. lon: , glandular puberulent, 
densely woolly tufted perennials 
vering stems 6- 15 Cm. tall; basal 
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