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aphvlla, laxa, ramis 
rarifloris, floribus om- 
nibus pedunculatis. 
Mich. 
the branches few-flow- 
ered; flowers all on 
peduncles. 
Mich. 2. p. 85. Pursh, 2. p. 500. Nutt. 2. p. 124. 
Stem about three feet high, glabrous. Leaves sessile, long, tapering to 
an acute point, sometimes amplexicaule; the lower frequently bearing a few 
segments, always acute, sometimes runcinate, somewhat glaucous underneath 
and fringed along the midrib. Flowers in a loose terminal panicle. In- 
volncrum imbricate, the leaves subulate. Florets about twenty; corolla 
ligulate, purple. Seeds compressed, lanceolate, serrulate, crowned with a 
stipitate hairy pappus. 
Grows in dry and moderately fertile soils. 
Flowers April — September. 
3. Sagittifolia. E. 
L. caule erecto, gla- 
bro; foliis oblongo-lan- 
ceolatis, acutis, inte 
gerrimis, glabris, sub. 
tus pallidioribus, arete 
sessilibus, basi sagitta- 
tis; floribus paniculatis. 
E. 
Stem erect, glabrous; 
leaves oblong-lanceo- 
late, acute, entire, gla- 
brous, pale underneath, 
closely sessile, sagit- 
tate at base; flowers 
in panicles. 
Stem four to six feet high, terete, glabrous. Leaves closely sessile, dis- 
tinctly sagittate at base, tapering to a -very acute, sometimes acuminate 
summit. The stem leaves very entire. Flowers in a loose terminal pani- 
cle. Involucrum cylindrical. Leaflets subulate, glabrous. Florets about 
twenty. Corolla yellow? Seed compressed, slightly margined. Pappus 
hairy, distinctly stipitate. 
I collected this plant many years ago, along the margin of a creek, in the 
neighbourhood of Columbia. The Corolla in my specimens has been des- 
troyed, but if my memory is accurate, it was yellow. I have preserved no 
root leaves, but I certainly saw none that were either runcinate or sinuate. 
Flowers July — September. 
