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2. H. Canadense, Michx. Taller, robust, with cori/mbosely or pam'cu- 

 lately cijmose heads: leaves from lanceolate to ovate-oblong, acute, sparsely 

 and acutely dentate or even laciniate, at least the upper parlh/ rhtspiwi and broad 

 or hroadish at base: involucre usually pubescent when young, glabrate, occa- 

 sionally glandular ; the narrow outermost bracts loose : pappus sordid. Arrosg 



the continent near the British boundary and northward. 



§ 2. Involucre a series of equal bracts and a few short ones: pappus o/ „t<>,r >„ 

 less scanty equal bristles: akenes in some species slender or tapering to the 

 summit. 



* Hirsute with long and ivhitish or yellowish shaggy denticulate hairs commonli^ 



from a small papilla, commonly but not always on the incut ucre also: flowers 

 yellow. 



3. H. longipilum, Torr. Stout, leafy to near the middle of the stem, 

 and with linear-lanceolate or subulate bracts up to the narrow jjanicle : pultes- 

 cence mainly glandular-setose and most abundant, the bristles upriglit, com- 

 monly i to 1 inch long, fulvous or rufous : leaves spatulate-ol)lung or upper 

 lanceolate, thickish, the radical commonly present in a tuft at flowering time : 

 involucre 20 to 30-flowered, and with short peduncles more or le.^^s tomentu- 

 lose as well as glandular, in a narroio almost virgate panicle : akenes fusiform : 

 pappus at maturity fuscous. — Woods and prairies, from Nebraska to Texas, 

 within the eastern limit of our range, and eastward to Micliigan. 



4. H. Seouleri, Hook. Robust, a foot or two high: hairs long and soft 

 setose, whitish or yellowish: leaves lanceolate or spatulate-lanceolate, 3 to 6 

 inches long: panicle irregular or branching : involucre somewhat furfuraceous 

 and glandular, also sparsely or copiously beset with long bristly liairs: akenes 

 columnar and short: pappus whitish. — From Montana to Oregon and south to 

 the Wasatch. 



* * Dark-hirsute and somewhat glandular (also whitish with short tomentum) on 



the involucre: leaves and lower part of scapiform stems not even pilose : flowers 

 yellow : pappus sordid. 



5. H gracile, Hook. Pale green, in tufts : leaves nearly all in radical 

 clusters, obovate- to oblong-spatulate and attenuate into petioles, entire or 

 repand-denticulate : stems or scapes slender, 8 to 18 inches high, cinereous 

 above, bearing few or several racemo.sely disposed livid heads, the lower 

 linear-bracteate : involucre usually blackish-liairy at base: akenes short co- 

 lumnar. — Includes //. trisfe, mostly, of the Western Reports. Mountains of 

 Colorado, Utah, and northward. 



Var. detonsum, Gray. A span to nearly a foot high, with ratlior smaller 

 heads: dark hirsute hairs wholly wanting, or only some smaller ones on the 

 involucre. — Synopt. Fl. i. 427. //. triste, var. detonsum, Gray. Mountains 

 of Colorado and California to those of British Columbia. 



* * * Not bristly {occasionally scattered bri.stles on the invohtrrr and puuirir)^ 



but at least the radical leaves and base of stem sparsely or thickly setose-hirsute 

 with long spreading hairs. 



•*- Flowers white: stems leafy: akenes linear-columunr, not at all narrowed 

 ii/iirard : ])appus sordid : leaves entire or denticulntc. 



6. H. albiflorum, Hook. A foot to a yard higli, smaller plants with 



