Frerennial nerts with alternate leaves, the lowermost of ich ar 
porne on ample retioles, the uppermost being nearly or quite sessile. 
with or without ray-flowers, rounded or conic, the receptacle convex 
even cylindrical in fruit bearing chaffy bracts. Achenes ocovoid or 
shapea, truncate at tne apex, more or less 4-8anried, the ~apous either 
7 cn Bat eae 
ra Cnai. ¥ Crowne 
O stout coarse herbs 
5 i a Ee See , Re a ye a ee ne 
4 clabrous, the heaus without rayeclowers 
QO 81S: ja-nirsute herts 0UH50 Cm. TAit » “NS Neaas 
“ Learin, Cconsri 
— 
Ls Bs 
+ 4.4 riar Maal ls praneni ae ton pee Aer ele 
with slencer usually crancnins alsrpida stems, mos tls 
o° 4-74 > if + 7 a 717 4 a i a Wo on} AM 2 == 1 be | bal 
of the nairs; Leaves Gillpticali “LANCeCLAaALVE wns DOLa 
i 
ah 
23am! 
wiae, acute at both onus, ati 
1 8 + * ‘ ‘ . a 7 Ke 
ioe rta Je Plachee@7vea ugan ‘ a aes by. MELD Ved Ulal 
-_ 
eS 4-10 cme lon, 
dears te tedey both surfaces hirsute 
entire or sparingly denticulats; neads usuall 
15-25 cme iong, sudglobose, 
of rerlexed linear- lanceola te or oblanceolate hispid 
lon., disc-corollas 
oblon;: 
Led 
€ 
ray-corolias eee about © Cine 
the bracts of the receptacie linear- 
twice as long as the achenes; acienes 
obtuse, 
lone, 
>] 
MMe 
Occasional in waste :iaces at low elevations. 
* 
Ze .e occidentalis Iutt. ~LEser 
60-200 cm. tall, the stems usually 
16 cme lony, or more, broadly 
attenuate to 
-neads. 
several 
a 
acuminate 
’ 
a 
OVaAlG, 
winged petioies 
eer he es econ Loaves +6¢4sessilce, marci U 2 
irresularly and coarsely dentate, the urner entire, 811 either glabrou 
ubescent ou the lower surface at least on the veins; heads dari purpl 
cylindridal, 2-0 cme tall, without ray-flowers; involucres loose, of 
recurve. os screadins leaflike lanceolate bracis 10-40 m.. long; disc- 
3eD itae Lons, the bracts of the receytacle densel erulent, subegual 
sheathing the achésne; acnenes C.0-4 mre 10 the panrus ¢ ce mabe 
at. ce aAvcHe 
Omaon is subaly1 B2u0Vs as ist slores usually at hishey 
{ rows ait 1 oy Shee e 
}~ m9 
Ss 
ror 
a 
3 
ry 
ot 
tnsir involucres ene, 
oO 
practs 10- 
caringly his 
—> A stout 
SP aa yy Asst aries j ne cr l 6 
irom a stout crown, learebplau 
25 Dich at the 
rou;n, tne mar 
1, on slender ees 
or about two 
15 We 
Urple, Jed—4 Mine 
vw 
pidulous , 
without pappus . 
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