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abruptl rs paler aie: upper of, broad ovate, amplexicaule; stem 
Shot or -few-flowered ; ; peduncle very long, s ‘sulcate; rays reflected, numerous, 
(fifteen to twenty ;) disk columnar. 
June. A gigantic plant, growing in extensive masses, with large, glaucous, somewhat cor us 
leaves, but little inferior in. size to those of the Cabbage, in its wild state. Leaves somewhat oval, 
three to four inches wide, except the upper ones, which diminish to a 7 part the size of the . 
lower ones: its whole aspect and clas sping |e leaves appear very similar to that of Dracopis. Six to _ 
nine feet high! and all the parts (the flower not excepted) of the same gigantic dimensions, al- 
though growing in a poor and exhausted soil. Rays oblong, nearly entire; discal column one and 
F a half to two inches long, three-fourths of an inch wide. Pale oblong, sheathing. Leaves of the 
involucrum in nearly a simple series, foliaceous. ' * 
rie nadie pric petisc alle ec to be almost am aucapnle 
Rudbeckia. The O. pin ad ‘ki . a mag tata, 
if, indeed, the latter be any thing more ‘than a ; ae of Rv laciniata. The 
distinguishing character of a compressed achenium i is merely ee and 
glides me into the unequal qeadeatguiar one. 
Pies! 
; RW Rays i ta te a cee 
conte. 
ed, 1e S ease lobed, scabrous. ‘on the 
nost sessile, lanceolate, entire; flowers few, long 
sk conic; sepals Sener imines in nearly 
Se ee er ee 
pedunculate, without rays; 
a single series. 
Has. Rocky Mountains and woods of the Oregon, particularly in the Blue Mountain range, by 
small streams. Allied to R. laciniata, of which it has almost the 1ium- | and palee. _ About 
three feet high. Leaves four to six inches long, much acuminated, F upper sometimes irregu- 
larly two-lobed, two to three inches wide, attenuated below, but ane Disk dark i paler 
linear, Sheathing, eee obtuse ; stege quadrangular. The only western species we have 
ore ee i ie 
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° pen plains of Red River, near the confluence of the Kiamesha. ate ta ee 
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