o> As loides Rydb. —— Tufted herds With rather stout 
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ranching rootstocks, the basal leaves linear-oblanceolate, 4-8 cme long, 
5-8 ma. broad, rather acute, tapering to an indefinite petiole, the flowering 
Stems 20-40 cm. tall, bearing oblanceolate or linear leaves 
stohed—eprerdy; heads numerous in dense terminal Convex Clusters, 3-4 cm. 
broad; involucral bracts 4-5.5 mn» lions, green and wookly towards the base, 
brownish at the middle, the upper parts Opaque, waite, dull, firm, rounded or 
blunt; paprpus of staminate flowers Spatulate, the margins more or less 
scabrous or eroded, that of the pistillate rlants nair-like, barbed; achenes 
not seen. 
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Dry gravelly prairie, tost Falls, 353i. John 4317, 
10. A. albescens (#3. tels.) Aydb. ———_____.> Low 
10-20 cm. tall; basal leaves obovate or spatulate, obtuse at the apex, 6-15 m. 
long, ©-4 mm. wide, covered on both surfaces by a felt-like tomentun, steme> =| 
leaves somewhat longer, 1-1.5 m. wide, linear-oblanceolate, acute, sessile, 
wooli;y but less so than the basal leaves; heads of the ristillsata ~lants in a 
Semi-globose cluster at the arex or the stem on peduncles 2.3 {or 10) ma. long, 
their bracts 3-6 mn. lons, 1.5 mn. wide, Oblone, oblanceolate, obtuse, the outer 
Subscarious, tinced with brown, very thinly woolly, the inner opaque, smooth, 
tan-colored or chaliy, duil anu rather firm, all mcre or less eroded or lacerate; 
achenes 1.1 ma. lons, the papi - long; the mature 
us white, very fine, 4.5 mm 
@ receptacle hemisrherical, 1 mm. broad; staminate plants untnown to 
snowy Top lit., 6000 ft., Splin;: 8677: Steven's Teak, 480-1 , ib 1481; 
Collins, Jlmer. | 
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tuf ted WOOliy perennials 
