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Headlets of flowers in mostly terminal clusters ... 1475 



1475. Clusters of flower-headlets surrounded by mostly 



narrow floral leaves. 



Partly beset with somewhat cottony often appressed 

 vestiture, occasionally rather tall ; leaves firm, the 

 lower mostly from elliptic- to elongate-lanceolar, the 

 upper distant and narrower, all soon glabrescent above ; 

 headlets of flowers capitular-crowded ; involucral bracts 

 brownish, shining ; fruits glabrous, slightly compressed. 



G. Japonicum. 



Clusters of flower-headlets surrounded by mostly 

 broad floral leaves. 



Alpine, extensively beset with somewhat cottony vestiture ; 

 root emitting offshoots ; radical leaves from elliptic- to 

 lanceolar-ovate ; stem-leaves mostly narrow-lanceolar ; 

 floral leaves often again broader, all flat and usually 

 velvetlike-invested also on the upper side ; some of 

 the headlets with prevailingly fertile fruits, others 

 with predominantly sterile fruits ; involucral bracts pale- 

 brownish, shining ; fruits glabrous. 



G. alpigenum. 



ANTENNARIA. 



1476. Headlets of flowers singly terminal, almost sessile. 



Alpine, .dwarf and depressed, scantily beset with somewhat 

 cottony vestiture ; leaves firm, mostly linear, acute, 

 slightly channelled, glabrous ; headlets with perfect 

 fruits more slender than the others ; pappus -bristlets 

 equally thin throughout ; fruits very slender, glabrous. 



A. imiceps. 



XiEONTOPODXUBX. 



1477. Expanding in ample depressed patches. 



Alpine, whitish or greyish from a thin appressed vestiture ; 

 leaves very small, crowded on stems and branches, 

 spreading, from obovate- to cuneate-elliptical, flat, at 

 their base clasping ; flower-headlets singly terminal on 

 crowded branchlets, small, sessile, slightly exceeding 

 the floral leaves ; ray-like expansion of involucre short, 

 white ; fruits slender, beset with very minute hairlets ; 

 bristlets of the pappus thickened at the upper extremity, 

 particularly those of the sterile fruits. Figure 83. 



L. catipes. 



