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98 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 
part; Daniels, Univ. Mo. Studies, Sei. Ser. 2:399 [251]. 
1911; Wooton & Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 19: 746. 
1915. De 
S. exaltatus var. minor Gray, Mem. Am. Acad. N. S. 4:108. 
1849, as to plant of Fendler; Am. Jour. Sei. П. 33 : 238. 1862. 
S. lugens var. exaltatus Eaton in Bot. King's Exp. 188. 
1871, mainly; Porter & Coulter, Fl. Colo. 80. 1874, not 5. ex- 
altatus Nutt. 
S. lugens var. foliosus Gray, Bot. Calif. 1: 413. 1876; Syn. 
Fl. N. Am. 1?:388. 1884, and ed. 2, 1886; Coulter, Manual 
Rocky Mountain Region, 209. 1885. 
An herbaceous perennial, white floccose-tomentose through- 
out; stems erect or nearly so, 2 to 6 dm. high, from an ascend- 
ing stoutish rootstock, rather leafy; basal and lower stem- 
leaves oblong-obovate to oblanceolate, narrowed below into a 
winged petiole, including the petiole .5 to 3 dm. long, 1.5 to 
5.5 em. broad, mucronate-acute, subentire to sinuate-dentate, 
permanently floecose-tomentose on both surfaces; upper stem- 
leaves sessile, lanceolate, usually becoming smaller towards 
the terminal compound corymbose or round-topped cyme; 
heads numerous, 10 to 12 mm. high, radiate; involucre nar- 
rowly campanulate or somewhat cylindrical, calyculate with 
a few setaceous bracteoles; bracts of the involucre commonly 
8, linear-oblong to linear-lanceolate, 6 to 7 mm. long, obtusish 
and, as well as the bracteoles, conspicuously black-tipped; 
ray-flowers 4 or 5, rays yellow; disk-flowers 8 to 12; achenes 
glabrous. 
Distribution: Colorado and Utah, south to New Mexico. 
Specimens examined: 
Colorado: head-waters of Clear Creek, and the alpine ridges 
lying east of ‘‘Middle Park,’’ coll. of 1861, Parry 23 (Gray 
Herb. and Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb.); Lat. 39-41°, coll. of 1862, 
Parry 325 [23] (U. S. Nat. Herb. No. 349248) ; Lat. 39-41°, 
coll. of 1862, Hall & Harbour 325 (Gray Herb., U. ©. Nat. 
Herb., Phil. Acad. Nat. Sei. Herb., and Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb.) ; 
James Peak, 20 Aug., 1870, Greene 223 (Gray Herb.) ; high 
mountains, Lat. 40-41°, alt. 3050-3655 m., Powell's Colo. Expl. 
Exp., 1868, Vasey 335 (Gray Herb.) ; below Gray's Peak, 10 
