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about 8 mm. long, the lobes 4-10 mm. long; achenes cuneate- se bg flattened, 4-6 mm. long, dark 
cn brown; pappus buff, about 1.5 c gar! ¥e a little s 
Moist deep soil of woods and meadows or a gh, sandy rocky co eee Canadian, and Hudsonian 
Zon nes; southern British Columbia and WV pehinge a es = Cas cade Wountsine and Coast Ranges. Type ogee 
“plains of Ore. caer and the Blue Mountains; co e young posers eripped of their bark, ar 
monly eaten raw by aah aborigines, her nee a arueweak pledsant sweetish taste.” June—Aug. 
21. Cirsium hallii Se eyy x E. Jones. Hall Thistle. Fig. 5922. 
Cnicus hallti A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Aca = 56: 
Cirsium hallit M. E. oes Bull. Univ. pes oy a No. 15: 47. 1910. 
Plan g perce opal short-lived, first blooming the second or ay year, thereafter 
aebstontoy at the mit of the taproot a several-branched crown that may produce in oe 
plants as many as 5 or 7 flowering shoots at ne time, green and subg uerouE the stems and leave 
crisply puberulent and sometimes thinly arachnoid, or the lower Fates of the leaves eravibhe 
rachnoi s i h i 
arachnoid; stems erect, — 1, virgate and branching near the top, or bushy and branching 
fr e. Earliest leaves broadly to narrowly anceolate, merely dentate-spinose o 
shallowly undulate-lobed, or pinnately parted ; a rather few, to m. long and 1.2 
e, oblanceolate, pinnately ivided nearly to the midvein, the divisions crowded or distant, 
triangular or quadrangular, again lobed or oar with the toed tipped by short weak spines, the 
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ALT, ‘ 
5919. Cirsium rhothophilum $921. Cirsium edule 
5920. Cirsium brevistylum 5922. Cirsium hallii 
