352 DESCRIPTION OF ASTERS; MACROPHYLLI 
Inflorescence often 1 ft. broad, 1% ft. high, its angle of branch- 
ing very high, apt to be 70°, its branches subequal, springing from 
remote nodes and bearing their loose corymbs at different levels. 
Involucre somewhat hemispherical, with straightish sides. 
Bracts not very green nor very thick, narrow and of many 
rows, of 3 types, the outer curving, ovate-triangular, acutish, 
puberulent, the chief bracts (middle ones) oblong-lingual, becoming 
more narrowed and almost acutish. Bracts with green-banded 
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center, and thin, rigid, pale-brown, scarious border, the latter 
becoming progressively wider inward, till the inmost bracts are 
wholly scarious except the green-line of midrib. —Ciliation moder- 
ate on outer "s middle bracts, then s 
Involucre $ high, or a little mo 
Rays of nicdium breadth, dije. with straight sides, broader 
than in the next. 
But little hair on leaves, stem or inflorescence, though more 
than in the succeeding species. Glands abundant upward; on the 
stem toward the ground they become subsessile. 
