ANALYTIC KEY 99 
** Inflorescence more irregular or diffuse. 
T Leaves thicker, rougher ; hair often downy, or when dry, bristly. 
74. A. ELAEAGNIUS : radicals about 2, orbicular-ovate, acutish, with slight sinus; 
caulines multiform, characteristic middle ones deltiform-acute ; /eaves very 
dark n 
75. A. MASARDIENSIS : characteristic /eaves Hia elongate the ends abruptly and 
somewhat equally acuminate; other | with rounded base; /ee/A strong, 
curvescent and aquiline ; pub light green, pau its lines and branches in 
weeping curves; outer and inmost bracts acute, middle ones rounded. 
76. A. IANTHINUS : radicals about 3, suborbicular, firm or thick, low-serrate with 
broad sinus; characteristic middle leaves oval-orbicular with strap-wings ; 
bracts oblong, with rounded apex ; per of the rays often particularly full and 
clear, soon fading ut "es to a dingy-wh 
eaves thickish, with edid UA surface, but with little hair, 
77. A. VIOLARIS: radicals small and broad, often numerous, rentform-apiculate, 
sharp-serrate, with broad shallow sinus and long slender petioles ; characteristic 
middle leaves oblong-oval, acuminate, s/ender-petioled ; inflorescence apt to 
deep and narrow, short-branched, with oblong-lanceolate bracteals ; bract-tips 
prince: rays pale-violet to dingy whit 
78. A. QU ENS: radicals eem Mm heavy, dark green, crenate, with 
deep pan rp sinus, often with pendant dilated lobes ; inflorescence irregular and 
often rather scanty ; hun acute; rays eni violet or lavender, or dingy white. 
79. A. GRANULOSUS: radicals ovate-oblonz, with deep sinus; others chi id ovate- 
acuminate with truncate base and slender petiole; all leaves small, intensely 
granular-roughened ; most bracts bevel-tipped; the inmost are -acuminate. 
SUBDIVISION C. PLANTS of moderate ics often ft.; radicals 
erate, 5 in. or less; many non-cordate radicals and caulines ; 
glands abundant pir all over ; leaves not extremely Afi nor very 
thick; disk-flowers deep-slit, funnel-form ; violet of t s dee 
8o. A. JUSSIEI : radicals impete some radicals and lower caulines Pepene 
with narrow sinus, serrate, and acuminate; inflorescence PERTE 
irregular, proliferous ; stem smooth, green; leaves rough ; rays narrow, tapered. 
81. A. DECAPHYLLUS: characteristic /eaves me -ovate, incurve-acuminate, sub- 
crenate or serrulate ; often with many (often 10) oval radicals, smooth and 
rm; caulines chiefly taper-winged, oval-acuminate; stem smooth, low and 
e, or robust and red-brown or ebony ; bracts acute, with narrow white edges ; 
occi lance-oblong, sessile ; Zeads very numerous in flat-fop inflorescence. 
i 82. A. HERVEYI: leaves ovate, thinnish, high-petioled, the radical large, low- 
crenate, about 4; heads subremote, reaching various levels; outer bracts sie 
often with broad squarrose dilation ; chief bracts erect, appressed, obtuse 
bevel-tipped or mucronulate. 
SuspivisioN D. PLANTS smaller, 13 or 2 ft.; lower leaves 3 in. or less; 
cordation almost absent; bracts squarrose; leaves thick, very rough. 
nt; bracts narrow, acute. 
83. A. COMMIXTUS : /eaves oblong-acute or ovate; a few, lower and soon-perishing. 
have a sharp sinus; inner bracts subulate, id the apex squarrose-recurved, 
** Glands nearly or quite absent; bracts broad, subtruncate. 
84. A. MIRABILIS: Zeaves oval, crenate, spinulosely hispid above, and minutely so 
beneath, when dry ; the lowest short-petioled, others sessile by a rounded base ; 
loosely subremote; bracts very deans squarrose. 
