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IG. IOI, plants from Palisades, N. J., in hb. Bu.; e, ordinary quiescent 
plant, a radical cluster, Se., '97 ; 2, a flowering stem arisen late from such cluster, Nov. 
I; zg, early development, May ro, with one primordial ; Z, such a radical cluster as de- 
veloped June 30; f, young leafy shoot of June 1o, such as might flower in August, with 
inflorescence like 2, but with more heads. 
Stem low, 114 ft. often, glabrate, pale green, angular in drying. 
Leaf-type heavy, strong and tough, pinguid and smoothish or 
roughish in life, very rough when dry, dark green or apple green, 
glabrate and thickish, with excavated-curvescent or shallow-cre- 
nate teeth ; outline cordate oval with apiculate apex soon obtuse 
by breaking, and tending to produce dilated pendent basal lobes, 
conspicuous deep narrow sinus, often closed by overlapping, but 
enlarged within. 
Radicals commonly 3, the first one of violarial form ; or triangu- 
lar with large sinus and larger pendent lobes ; or orbicular-cordate ; 
or reniform-apiculate with pendent lobes, or reniform and pointless. 
The two following radicals are commonly of the typical leaf- 
