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Fruits rough 1401 



1401. Lower leaves broadish, all entire. 



Rather tall, glabrous ; branches hardly spreading ; leaves 

 greyish-green, the lower from obovate- to elliptic-lanceolar, 

 the upper narrower ; headlets of flowers relatively small, 

 slender-stalked; fruits finally turgid ; pappus very minute. 



B. basaltica. 



All leaves narrow or the lower lobed-dilated. 



Somewhat glandular-rough ; branches rather spreading, 

 slender ; leaves linear, nearly or quite entire, seldom 

 pinnatilobed, the upper short and distant; headlets of 

 flowers relatively small ; fruits almost clavate, granular- 

 rough, bluntly margined ; pappus minute. 



B. t rachy carp a. 



1402. Fruits with a turgidly or membranously enlarged 



margin 1403 



Fruits without any enlarged margin ... ... 1405 



1403. Fruits very turgid at the margin. 



Dwarf ; leaves all radical, mostly pinnatifid, their segments 

 narrow; headlets of flowers small, on long slender stalks ; 

 involucral bracts broadish, blunt ; floral ray quite short ; 

 fruits brownish, slightly compressed, cottony-ciliolated 

 and on both sides lined by a narrow longitudinal ridglet ; 

 pappus conspicuous, stellular. B. pachyptera. 



Fruits membranous at the margin ... ... ... 1404 



1404. Fruits longitudinally streaked on both sides, by three 



rough lines. 



Dwarf, often glabrous ; leaves pinnatifid, with narrow and 

 acute lobes ; headlets of flowers small, on long thin 

 stalks ; involucral bracts rather broad, blunt ; receptacle 

 almost conical ; fruits small, brownish, much compressed, 

 ciliolated ; pappus minute. B. ptycliocarpa. 



Fruits without longitudinal streaks. 



Dwarf, often somewhat beset with hairlets ; leaves pin- 

 natifid or some trifid, the lobes narrow and acute ; 

 headlets of flowers small, on very thin and propor- 

 tionately long stalks ; involucral bracts comparatively 

 narrow; fruit obovate, flat, brownish, ciliolated ; pappus 

 stellular, conspicuous. B. debilis. 



