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hairy below the inflorescence. Leaves ample, wars — the ea ones when present sates 
elliptic to broadly ovate or Gihebandae blade up to 10 cm. long and 7 cm. wide (or sometimes eve 
larger), mostly rotiee abruptly contracted to a petiole of about the dipprasin length; faite eaves 
numerous, broadly actehic or usually br mpeg soon becoming short-petiolate or subsessile but 
i educed upwa cia e lower; i 
eafy, more or less num s heads; oes : 
lar and sparsely long-hairy; phyllaries subequa , light cages or light brownish, acuminate or 
attenuate; rays 80-125, ene or occasionally ‘btu sh, 5- 1% tine 0.5-1.0 mm. wide; disk- 
corollas 2.0-2.8 mm. long; style-branches truncate or n is so, scarcely appendiculate; pappus 
double, the outer of slcadet hos scales, the i inner of 10-15. pase Digit ‘beiatien, these wanting from 
the signal Fe achenes 2-nerved, hairy 
A weed in moist ground or waste aie widespread ame —- pea’ bapwieny and Basi Canada known 
from Was Ne yin: and northern California but m t of our range. e loc ality: 
Canada. June—Sept. 
60. Erigeron strigésus Muhl. Branching Daisy. Fig. 5641. 
Doronicum ramosum Walt. FI. Carol. 205. 88. 
sent mage aaerd Muhl. ex Willd. Sp. Pl. 3: 1956. 1803. 
Diplem strigosum Raf, FI. Tell. 2: 50. 1838. 
ainda aed sa DC. Prod. 5: 299, 1836. 
Erigeron strigosus var. gracilis Nutt. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. ae iF 311. 1840. 
Erigeron ramosu. Prel. Cat. N.Y. 27, ne ie ka Raf, 
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Stenactis ramosa Domin. Preslia 13-15: 226. 
Annual or occasionally biennial, mostly 3-7 dm. tall, the stem evidently to very sparsely stri- 
gose, or shortly spreading-hirsute near the base; foliage appearing scanty as contrasted to 
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5637. Erigeron —— 
5638. Erigeron 
5639. Erigeron inoratus 
5640. Erigeron ann 
