(6) 9 C, oreophilum Rydbe ——> Stems stout, unbranched, virgate, 4028 
C6) all,lealty, thinly woolly with hairs 5-8 m, long; tawse atid PT 3 
oblanceolate, 15-55 om, long, tapering to indefinite petioles 
narrowly ob lotie oe oblong-lanceolate, gradually digtatehe eed ~ sah 
and clasping, a¥i pinnately lobed, the lobes irregularly deltoid 3-12 mn, 
tall, spinose tipped, the margins undulate, armed with smaller unequal spines, 
the upper surfaces very thinly villovs, the lower cobweb » or the up or laaee | 
throughout; heads few, in a dense terminal cluster qubteniia by and sumettines 7 
almost hidden within a leafy cluster, the mid-portion of the narrow leaves 
being whitish, their bracts lanceolate, glabrous, the inner I8- 20 mm. long, © 
all tipped with spines 2-5 mm, long; scarcely dilated at the tips; corolla 
yellowish, 2.5-2.8 om, long, the lobes 5mm, long; anthers and style viola- 
ceous; achenes 4,5-5 mn, long, violaceous when maturing, the pappus white, 
20-22 mme longe 
Frequent in burns in the St. Joe and Clearwater forests at elevations 
from 3000-5000 feet; perhaps only a bide & of the following species, | 
no H —— Orogrande Cr., 3000 ft., Hpling and Houck 9313; Forks of St. 
200 a Leiberg 1188; Elk Prairie, Epling and Kempf. 
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