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hairs, frequently reddish. Leaves green, glabrous above, paler 

 and hairy beneath, falsely 3-veined, ciliated, remotely denticulate 

 or irregularly dentate with sharp teeth j sometimes nearly entire : 

 lowest oblong or hnear-lanceolate, much attenuated downwards, 

 obtuse and apiculate ; intermediate and upper ones linear or at- 

 tenuated upwards from a broadly rounded and rather clasping or 

 truncate base, acute or obtuse. Branches and peduncles straight, 

 erect or ascending ; few headed (1 or 2, rarely 3), leafy. Pednmcles 

 more or less floccose, thickened at the top. Involucres dark 

 green; usually glabrous, but sometimes rather densely clothed 

 with black-based whitish hairs, and stellate down at the base. 

 Fhyllaries broad; inner ones sometimes with pale margins, 

 Florets deep yellow. Styles yellow, or rather livid and with 

 minute dark hairs. Pappm nearly white. 



A very variable species, often closely approximating in appearance 

 to forms of ff. rigichim and S. corymbosum. From the former it may 

 be distingruisted by its leaves being linear, lanceolate, or rarely oblong 

 {not ovate or ovate-lanceolate) ; from the latter, in having narrower 

 leaves with ascending (not loosely anastomosing j veins ; while from 

 loth these species it differs in having few suh-monocephalous branches 

 and peduncles, and in never forming a large dense leafy corymbose 

 panicle. 



