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————_7 Erect slender annuals 30-60 em, tall, 
’ the iam thinly spreading-hirsute, glandular above; leaves linear or lineane> 
lanceolate, 5-7 cme long, 3-5 mn. vice, sessile, clothed like the stems; heads 
few, ovoid, solitary at the enas of leary branches Or some axillary, 8-9 mm. 
tali, 4-5 na. wide, ray flowers (and bracts) several, usually more than 5, 
the bracts 7-8 mm. lons, densely glandular, dise flowers few, the ae erie 
series of braets chaffy or subm mbranous, more or less rlane, 56 me tall; “ 
ray and disc achenes 4 mme long, similar, the latter more strongly angled, the 
former more strongly compressea jJittle Or ae at all angled Scler 
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gre cilis Smiths li. dissitifiora (1 Gistesy °G Te & Ge) (Sel us 
Frequent in dry soil along roadways or in gravelly prairies in the 
grassland. 
clomerata Hook. ————~ Srect slender annuals 50-60 cm. tall or 
more, leary throughout, the stems hispid with ascending hairs; leaves 3-7 
CMe long, 2-5 mm. wide, sessile, linear or linear-lanceolate, clothed like 
the stems; heads borne in clusters or 2 or 4 at the tins of snort lateral 
pranches, ellintical, 6-8 mn. longs, 2-4 mune wide, the ray flowers 2-3, usually 
less than 5, the bracts 5-7 mae lons, densely glandular, the disc flowers 
few, the subtending series of puacee char. y,6-7 mie tall, concave and partly 
sheathing the achenes, ray and disc-achnenes Similar, the former somewhat 
more flattened, all more or less obscurely angled, 4.5 mn long. 
Frequent in dry gravelly soil at lower elevations. 
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