COMPOSITE. 



In open woods, thickets and bushy- 

 pastures, common throughout temperate 

 Europe, and extending far into Scandina- 

 via, but not indicated in Asiatic Floras. 

 Spread over nearly the whole of Eng- 

 land, but scarcely penetrates into Scot- 

 land, and not recorded from Ireland. 

 Fl, late in summer. 



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Fig. 548. 



XXIII. SAUSSUREA. SAUSSUREA. 



Herbs, with the habit and characters of Sawwort, except that the 

 hairs of the pappus, or at least the inner ones, are very feathery, and 

 the anthers have at their lower end hair-like appendages or tails. 



The species are chiefly numerous in central and Russian Asia. There 

 are but few in Europe, confined to mountain regions or high northern 

 latitudes. 



1. Alpine Saussurea. Saussurea alpina, DC. (Fig. 549.) 



(Sei*ratula, Eng. Bot. t. 599.) 



Stem erect and simple, seldom a foot high, covered, as well as the 

 involucres and under side of the leaves, with a loose cotton, which wears 

 off with age. Leaves from ovate to lanceolate, entire or toothed, 2 to 

 3 inches long. Flower-heads ovoid or oblong, nearly sessile, in a small, 

 dense terminal corymb, with purple florets. The soft, feathery pap- 

 pus projects beyond the involucres, the inner bracts of which are softly 

 hairy. 



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