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2. Be vulgeta Greene. ———?7 An erect weedy annual 60-90 cm, tall, with 
virgate stems which branch in the upper part, the branches strict, ascend- 
ing, sparingly pubescent above, glabrous; leaves pinnately 3-5-foliolate, 
the leaflets mostly lanceolate, 3-5 cm, long, the middle one largest, all 
more or less serrate, scabrous beneath, petioles of the lowest leaves as 
long as the blades, those of the upper much reduced or wanting; heads on 
unequal peduncles o-10 cm. long, discoid, outer involucral bracts 10-15 mm, 
long, scabrous, the inner ovate or elliptical, 5-6 mm, long, scarious 
margineds disc-corollas 2.5 ma. long, yellow, with brown veins; achenes 
yellow, becoming sordid brown, the body cuneiform, 6-7 mn, long, hispid on 
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the ribs and margins, bearing @ spinose awns 2-3 mm, long, retrorsely 
barbed, 
Frequent in boggy ground which later becomes dry, 
