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1511. Conspicuously beset with somewhat cottony vestiture. 



Somewhat branched, slightly woody, never tall ; leaves 

 firm, rather small, almost linear, revolute at the margin, 

 curved-pointed at the summit, above finally glabrous ; 

 headlets of flowers usually several, comparatively small, 

 their stalks also bearing minute bracts ; ligular expansions 

 of marginal corollas rather short ; fruits somewhat beset 

 with hairlets. S. Belirianus. 



Almost or quite glabrous ... ... ... ... 1512 



1512. Upper leaves stalked or only slightly clasping ... 1513 

 Upper leaves very amply clasping ... ... ... 1515 



1513. Headlets of flowers small-rayed. 



Comparatively tall, very odorous, often riparian ; leaves 

 rather long, from linear- to broadish-lanceolar, entire or 

 somewhat serrated ; base of the stem-leaves frequently 

 slightly dilated ; headlets of flowers numerous, small ; 

 fruits usually glabrous. S. dryadeus. 



Headlets of flowers large-rayed ... .. ... 15H 



1514. Accessory bracts much elongated, spreading. 



Forest-plant, amply and laxly spreading ; leaves large, 

 flaccid, somewhat pinnately cleft into broadish unequal 

 acute segments, the latter again acutely lobed or distantly 

 indented, the terminal segment far the largest; upper 

 leaves less divided ; headlets of flowers relatively large, 

 few or several together, acutely rayed ; involucral bracts 

 conspicuously pointed, outside blackish, papillular-rough ; 

 fruits glabrous, longitudinally furrowed and transversely 

 wrinkled. Figure 90. S. vagus. 



Accessory bracts much abbreviated, appressed. 



Seldom tall, of erect or diffuse growth ; leaves or their lobes 

 from narrow-lanceolar to linear, entire or indented or in- 

 cised, occasionally more dilated and sometimes succulent ; 

 uppermost leaves almost reduced to bracts ; headlets of 

 flowers few or several together ; accessory bracts often 

 black-spotted ; fruits generally beset with minute hair- 

 lets. S. lantus. 



