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crisp-pubescent or glabrescent. Earliest leaves small, pained elliptic- et entire or 
sparsely spinulose-denticulate, the leaves of the basal rosette usually few, varyin one sbi 
m — to deeply pinnately divided, narrowly to broadly chistes Le 54 bits 
subentire leaves 1.5—3 cm. broad, the lobed or Pap leaves 3-10 cm. broad, the lobes and divisions 
short and deltoid to elongate and again lobed or divided, the lo bes _ eee in slender wea 
spines, the leaf-margin more or less as al edt tow the narrowed, pctinke fie 
base; lower cauline leaves similar to the mee pews but the ae blade-like part extending 
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ing, the inner tenis sia si inear-oblong, the sides smooth or spinulose- eee, the tip 
more or less chartaceous-scarious and lacerate, triangular-acute or sometimes flabellate, the median 
line of the inner silanes eiaiidndar ; corollas slgeite tapings: 2 me the Bead, rosy-purple or lavender- 
the 5m ipti 
Moist deep soil of woods and meadow borders, or on rocky cuts and exposed maritime slopes, Humid Transi- 
tion Zane: Coast Ranges from Curry County, ae south to oe County, California. Type locality: 
“dry rocky soil, 6.4 km. north of Agness, Curry Co.,’’ Oregon. June—Sept. 
31. Cirsium remotifdlium (Hook.) DC. Remote-leaved Thistle. Fig. 5932. 
Corduns remotsfolius Hook. Fl. Bor. Amer. 1: 302. 1833. 
Prod. &: 655. 1837. 
Cirsium stenolepidum Nutt. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. II. 7: 419. 1841. 
Biennial or short-lived Bohtipas: ¥ her se with a rather stout taproot (or perhaps with ne 
rosettes pacts a izome-like ts) ; stems erect, 0.3-1.5 m. tall, remotely iy rather closely cee 
terete but somewhat longitudinally pray purplish- tinged above poopeers with oe S ae ate, 
multicellular, alliage sed hairs, also thinly arachno id a cely 
the base. Basal leaves an es na long and 1 dm. wide, narrowly elliptic, deeply ete 8 d or 
parted, the segments br val obongish and genera ally 1-lobed on the outer side, the segments an 
lobes shortly and weakly s tipped, the margin spa a spinulose ciate, chen. arachion 
tomentose below with ainin a Sanltcetinies baits along midrib and veins, gla brate above with 
scattered, abenicig 1 adie lular hairs, the blade narrowed graduall a a od su a te phe ae 
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at the ends . short, Lagat or sparsely leafy-bracted, peduncle-like stems or rarely some 0 the 
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below the tip, the inner phyllaries attenuate into a thin, slender, somewhat twisted, spinescent tip, 
the margins spinulose-ciliate, or the fe a little expanded and Grate. fringed; flowers —— 
sordid, the corollas 2 cm. long, the mm. long, the lobes a ual, mm. long; achen 
dark or light brown speckled with aoe eee sh brown, scarcely sh ing, 4-5 mm. long, reams 
cuneate ; Dappite 2 cm. long, sordid-whitish, the bar bellulate tips oor exp ande d. 
Ran 
Type locality: ee = Pie valley of ie Columbia.” i? har “Almost cvecywherd this this 4 et nee to 
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ybrid-suspect between C. pacciee Sec and C. pons hes been collected on Sexton Mountain, Josephine 
yanigg =r It resembles C. semchihann but it is more tomentose and many of the phyllaries are glandular 
ong the midr 
Cirs: mendocinum whol Beih. Bot: Centralbl. 35: 339. 1917. Sim o C. remotifolium but the leaves 
much a spiny, the involucres more copiously arachnoid, and the flowers ara ve urplish due either = = 
corolla or colored anther- nr a ese characters are reminiscent of C. andrewsii. rushy and wooded places on 
the coastal pind of Mendocino County, California, the type locality 
82. ——— andersonii (A. Gray) Petrak. Anderson’s Thistle. Fig. 5933. 
C: A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 10: 44. 1874. 
Cirsium andersonii Petrak, Bot. Tidsskr. 31: 68. 1911. 
Perennial sete with widely ee Sagi ——— roots from which flowering plants 
with stout taproots, woody and so ee - — ces, and erect stems develop; stems 
usually 4-7 dm retry rarel ees crane eal ai eS = much as 10 dm. tall, sparsely crisp 
puberulent and arachnoid-tomentose or pron atte Paws purplish. Leaves of the first season 
few, small, obl olate, obtuse or subacute, spin dentate some undulate and spiny 
the margin, in s (or perh after several years?) developing a large rosette from 
which the flowering sh or s 3 m. long and m. wide, oblong- 
gro osulate leave: 0:3: 
oblanceolate, pinnately divided with the divisions again lobed, rather sparsely and weakly spiny 
particularly on the acute tips of the lobes, the bl nd narrowed below to a petiole- like base; caul- 
