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glabrous, rather copiously leafy toward the base, remotely 

 bracted above the middle : lower leaves oval, obtuse, coarsely 

 but rather lightly crenate, 2 or 3 inches long, on slender 

 petioles of 4 or 5 inches, the middle cauline lyrate-pinnatifid 

 and the bracts above them similar but reduced and sessile: 

 terminal cymose corymb like that of S. aureus, but the heads 

 larger, the campanulate involucres 4 or 5 lines high: flowers 

 of both disk and ray fiery-red. 



Common in meadows at Jack's Cabin, 25 July, n. 612. 

 A very handsome subspecies of S. aureus, with large leaves 

 very regularly crenate all around the margin; the flowers 

 of the richest fire-red. Mr. Baker's n. 348 from meadows 

 near Sargent, not yet in full flower at date of July 5, must 

 also be referred here, though in some of these specimens 

 the lowest leaves are subcordate, and many of them almost 

 entire. 



SENECIO LAPATHIFOLIUS. Stems clustered, stout, more or 

 less decumbent, a foot high or more, leafy throughout, the 

 herbage deep-green and glabrous: leaves 4 to 6 inches long, 

 lanceolate, acute, sessile by a broad, or sometimes taper- 

 ing half-clasping base, undulate, more or less obviously 

 denticulate: heads 5 to 10, large, the campanulate invo- 

 lucres more than J inch high, mostly arising singly from 

 the axils of the leaves, these on very long peduncles, the 

 whole forming a loose subcorymbose panicle; bracts of invo- 

 lucre lanceolate (rather broadly and triangularly so): rays 

 narrow, about as long as the bracts: achenes striate, glabrous. 



On the divide between Ouray and Telluride, 10 Aug., n. 

 738. In some ways suggestive of S. crassulus, and doubtless 

 allied to it, but in character very different. The long pedun- 

 cles are peculiarly turbinate-thickened under the involucre, 

 and the whole plant appears to be much more succulent 

 than S. crassulus. 



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