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50 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 
S. Fendleri lanatus Osterhout, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 31: 
398. 1904. 
S. lanatifolius Osterhout, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 32: 612. 
1905; Daniels, Univ. Mo. Studies, Sci. Ser. 2 : 252. 1911. 
S. rosulatus mut. primulinus Cockerell, Torreya 19: 272. 
1913. 
S. confertus Nelson in Herb. 
S. rosulatus coryphocolus Clements in Herb. 
An herbaceous perennial, at first white-tomentose, some- 
what glabrate; stems one to several, erect or nearly so, simple 
or branched, 1 to 6 dm. high, frequently bearing short or elon- 
gated and slender offshoots at the base of the stem and be- 
coming densely cespitose, uniformly leafy or with the upper 
leaves more or less reduced; lower leaves petiolate, oblance- 
olate to oblong-ovate in general outline, 2 to 12 em. long, .5 to 
3.9 em. broad, subentire to sinuately lobed or even subbipin- 
nate with deep rounded sinuses and erowded, often somewhat 
crenate or plaited, rounded and entire to acutely dentate lobes, 
more or less glabrate especially on the upper surface; upper 
leaves sessile, similar or reduced to lanceolate, dentate to sub- 
entire bracts; inflorescence a terminal several to many-headed 
eorymbose cyme; heads 7 to 10 mm. high, radiate; involucre 
campanulate, sparingly calyculate; bracts of the involucre 
usually 13, linear-lanceolate, 4 to 6 mm. long, tomentulose to 
glabrous; ray-flowers 7 to 12, rays yellow; disk-flowers 30 to 
40; achenes glabrous. 
Distribution: Wyoming to New Mexico. 
Specimens examined: 
Wyoming: Wind River Mountains, 9 Aug., 1894, А. Nelson 
(Gray Herb.) ; Pole Creek, hillside, Table Mountains, 2 June, 
1894, A. Nelson 124 (Gray Herb.); on granite slopes, Sand 
Creek, Albany Co., 30 June, 1900, A. Nelson 6996 (Gray Herb., 
U. S. Nat. Herb., and Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb.); dry gravelly 
slopes, Centennial, Albany Co., 27 July, 1902, 4. Nelson 8697 
(Gray Herb., U. S. Nat. Herb., and Мо. Bot. Gard. Herb.) ; 
Green Top, 29 June, 1897, A. Nelson 3217 (Gray Herb., U. S. 
Nat. Herb., and Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb.) ; Cummins, 28 July, 
1895, A. Nelson 1492 (Gray Herb., U. S. Nat. Herb., and Mo. 
