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lucres 5-8 mm. broad, hemispheric, densely tomentose; bracts oval, scarious- 

 margined; flowers 30-40, yellowish brown. Mountains: Mont. Ore. Submont. 

 Jl-Au. 



53 A. Flodmanii Rydb. Perennial, with a branched rootstock; stem 

 slender 3-5 dm. high, tomentose, grooved, simple up to the inflorescence; leaves 

 many 3-7 cm. long, white-tomentose on both sides, usually twice pinnatifid into 

 lanceolate or linear divisions, the upper less divided or simple; heads numerous, 

 in a rather dense leafy panicle; involucre about 3 mm. high, 2.5-3.5 mm. broad; 

 bracts floccose, the outer lance-ovate, acute, the inner bracts elliptic, obtuse; 

 flowers 20-30. Hillsides: Mont. Wyo. Ore. (? Utah). Submont. 



54. A. discolor Dougl. Perennial, with a horizontal rootstock; stem 5-7 

 dm. high, striate, slightly floccose when young, glabrate in age; leaves 4-7 cm. 

 long, sessile, loosely floccose when young, but soon glabrous above, white-tpmen- 

 tose beneath, thin, pinnatifid, with linear or linear-lanceolate acute divisions; 

 divisions of the larger leaves again cleft or toothed; involucre 3.5-4 mm. high 

 and as broad; bracts arachnoid-tomentose, yellowish, lanceolate to elliptic, 

 acutish; flowers 35-50. Rocky situations: Mont. Ida. Wash. B.C. Submont. 



55. A. Michauxiana Besser. Perennial, more or less suffruticose at the 

 base, with a much branched caudex; stem 2-4 dm. high; leaves 3-6 cm. long, 

 subsessile, pinnately or bipinnately divided or cleft into linear or lanceolate or 

 rarely broader, often toothed divisions, white-tomentose beneath; involucre 3-4 

 mm. high, 5-7 mm. broad; outer bracts linear-lanceolate, acute, the inner oval, 

 obtuse; flowers 25-40. A. discolor A. Gray, mainly. Hills and mountain sides: 

 Sask B .C. Wash. Utah Colo. Plain Mont. 



56. A. graveolens Rydb, Perennial, with a cespitose slender caudex; 

 stems numerous, branched, glabrous; leaves twice or thrice pinnatifid into linear 

 or lance-linear divisions; margins more or less re volute; heads numerous, in a 

 narrow panicle, with racemiform branches, nodding; involucres about 4 mm. 

 broad, glabrous; bracts ovate, with brownish scarious margins; corollas brown, 

 glabrous, 15-30. A. subglabra A. Nels. Banks and hillsides: Alta. Wyo. 

 Ore. B.C. Submont. Jl-Au. 



57. A. tenuis Rydb. Perennial, with a creeping cespitose rootstock; stem 

 slender, glabrous or minutely puberulent, 3-4 dm. high; leaves 2-3 cm. long, 

 deeply pinnatifid into 5-7 linear, acute, divergent segments; inflorescence with 

 raceme-like slender branches; involucres about 4 mm. high, 2-3 mm. wide; bracts 

 glabrous or minutely puberulent, with scarious margins; corollas 10-20, brown- 

 ish. Sandy gulches: Mont. n Wyo. Submont. Jl-Au. 



68. A. Wrightii A. Gray. Perennial, suffruticose at the base; stem 3-5 dm. 

 high; leaves pinnatifid, with linear-filiform divisions, slightly pubescent when 

 young, soon glabrate above, white-tomentulose beneath, with revolute margins; 

 heads in narrow, dense panicle; involucres about 3 mm. high, 1.5-2 mm. broad, 

 slightly tomentose; bracts oval; flowers 10-15, yellowish. Dry hills and moun- 

 tains: N.M. s Colo. Utah Ariz. Son. Submont. Au-S. 



69. A. Bakeri Greene. Perennial, with a cespitose caudex; stem decum- 

 bent at the base, loosely branching, 3-7 dm. high; leaves green and glabrous 

 above, white-tomentose beneath, with revolute margins, the lower pinnatifid, 

 with narrowly linear segments, the upper entire and narrowly linear; heads in 

 an open loose panicle; involucres 2.5-3 mm. high, about 2 mm. broad, only slightly 

 tomentose; outer bracts linear, the inner oval, with broad scarious margins. 

 Canons and valleys: N.M. Colo. Ariz. Submont. Au-S. 



6 0- A. Carruthii Wood. Perennial, with a short cespitose caudex; stem 

 6 5 dm. high, white-tomentose, very leafy; leaves pinnatifid, with narrowly 

 linear divisions, with revolute margins, densely white-tomentose on both sides, 

 ie uppermost often entire, linear-filiform; heads very numerous in a dense 

 panicle; involucres about 2.5 mm. high, 2 mm. broad, densely tomentose; outer 

 oracts lanceolate, the inner oval, broadly scarious-margined. A . kansana Britton. 

 A coioradensis ; Osterhout, a form with broader segments . Dry plains and prairies : 

 Mo. Colo. Utah Tex. Son. Mont. Au-S 



