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|3 LAXIFOLrUU. Stem branclied in the npper part. Leaves broadlif ovate* 

 lanceolate, destloulate. Boot-leaves usually persistent. Heads very 

 large. Styles yellow. 



Heathy or grassy places in sub-alpine districts. Margin of the 

 Esk, one mile below the Kirktown of Clova. Near Castletown of 

 Bra«mar. Teesdale. Connemara. Above Llyn-y-Cae, Cader Idris. 

 Snowdon. Llanberis. 



fi latifoUum. Heathy hillocks near the Kirktown of Clova. 



Flowers in 7th, 8th and 9th months. 



Plant 1 1 to 4 feet high, with large and handsome heads. Root 

 descending with strong fibres, sometimes rather woody, but 

 scarcely thickened at the neck. Stem erect, rigid, wiry, fre- 

 quently purplish in the lower part, and with rather long scattered 

 white hairs, or nearly glabrous throughout ; with numerous (7 to 

 20) leaves ; simple and sab-corymbose at the extremity with few 

 (3 to 5) heads, or forming a corymbose panicle of numerous 

 heads ; not unfrequently branched from the base upwards ; the 

 branches slender, leafy and elongated, with few heads. Leaves 

 dark or duU green, paler or rather glaucous beneath, usually firm 

 in texture and similar in form throughout ; acute, or sub-obtuse j 

 denticulate or remotely and irregularly dentate with sharp or 

 blunt teeth in the middle, pointing forwards ; entire towards the 

 point, and frequently throughout the upper half. Koot-leave3 

 frequently withering before the heads are developed. Stem-leaves 

 more or less aggregate towards the base (sometimes so densely 

 and so near the root as to resemble true root-leaves), shortly 

 stalked or sub-sessile ; gradually becoming less numerous, smaller> 

 and sessile or scarcely clasping, as they approach the peduncles ; 

 uppermost usually rounded at the base. Peduncles erect or 

 ascending, rigid, floccose when young, sometimes slightly hairy ; 

 with leaves or bracts at the base. Involucres cylindrical in bud, 

 rounded and sometimes truncate at the base after flowering, without 



