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III! Main-peduncles panicu- 
lately branched with 
numerous heads 
O Plant a small 
diffusely branch- 
ed herb, very 
slender and 
small leaved 
O O Plant a shrub, 
with large leaves 
V Leaves scabridly 
hairy on both 
surfaces 
V V Leaves glabrous 
or almost so 
Leaves very 
broadly oval 
Leaves broadly 
y lanceolate , 
E. Inflorescence paniculate. 
* Plant dwarf, unbranched, with only radical 
leaves 
** Plants shrubby and much branched, with 
cauline leaves 
t Flowers very small not more than 4 
mm. in diameter 
§ Plants glabrous 
Leaf-margins ciliolate • 
Leaf-margins smooth . 
§§ Plants strigosely hairy, often with 
the hairs on the branches re- 
trorse . . . . • 
§§§ Plants more or less pubescent 
Perianth baccate in fruit . * 
Perianth not baccate 
ft Flowers large, not less than 6 mm. in 
diameter 
§ Perianth campanulate 
Plant a low shrub with sessile 
leaves and dense-flowered 
panicle . • . » 
P. alatum 
VAR, tenuicaulis. 
P. chinense 
VAR. scabra, 
P. chinense 
VAR. ovalifolia. 
P. chinense. 
P. Hookeri. 
P. paniculatum. 
P. frondosum. 
P. rude. 
P. molle. 
P. alpinum. 
P. tortuosum= 
