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ferous at the base; stolons slender and elongated to short and 
rather stout; lower leaves petiolate, obovate, oblong-ovate to 
subrotund, 1 to 10 em. long, two-thirds to nearly or quite as 
broad, rounded at the apex, erenate to doubly serrate, grad- 
ually narrowed at the base and decurrent on the petiole or 
abruptly contraeted to a subeordate base; stem-leaves petio- 
late and sublyrate to sessile, more or less pinnatisect and 
semiamplexicaul; inflorescence a terminal several to many- 
headed corymbose cyme; heads 8 to 10 mm. high, radiate; ray- 
flowers 8 to 12, rays relatively long and narrow, yellow; disk- 
flowers numerous; achenes glabrous or occasionally hispidu- 
lous along the angles. 
Distribution: Vermont, south to Georgia, west to Mis- 
souri, Kansas, and Texas. 
Specimens examined: 
Vermont: Pownal, Bennington Co., 31 July, 1898, Eggles- 
ton 264 (Gray Herb.), and 8-11 Sept., 1899, Eggleston 1381 
(U. S. Nat. Herb.). 
Massachusetts: Ipswich, coll. of 1842, Oakes (Gray Herb. 
and U. S. Nat. Herb.); Boxford, 22 June, 1878, E. Faxon 
(Gray Herb.) ; Alford, Milligan (U. S. Nat. Herb.) ; without 
definite locality, Nuttall (Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci. Herb.). 
Connecticut: shaded limestone ledges, Salisbury, 3 June, 
1901, Bissell (Gray Herb.) ; in loam and on calcareous ledges, 
Salisbury, 30 May, 1902, Churchill, Bissell & Fernald 96 (Gray 
Herb., U. S. Nat. Herb., Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci. Herb., and Mo. 
Bot. Gard. Herb.) ; near Southington, 24 Aug., 1903, Andrews 
(Gray Herb.) ; Meriden Mountain, 30 May, 1885, Safford 344 
(U. S. Nat. Herb.) ; rich dry rocky woods, Monroe Co, 8 June, 
1895, Fames (U. S. Nat. Herb.) ; thin dry woods on ledge of 
trap rock, Long Hill, 26 May, 1894, Eames (Gray Herb.); 
Bridgeport, 19 May, 1893, Eames (U. S. Nat. Herb.). 
New York: Lebanon Springs, 31 May, 1890, Harrison 9 
(U. S. Nat. Herb.); West Point, er Herb. Thurber (Gray 
Herb.) ; Van Cortlandt, May, 1893, Pollard (U. S. Nat. Herb.) ; 
Delaware Co., 6 July, 1892, H. von Schrenk (Mo. Bot. Gard. 
Herb.); without definite locality, Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Am. 
(Gray Herb.). 
