. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Branching from the base ; heads terminal. Acaulescent, or nearly so ; heads sessile among the I. Townsendia grandiflora Xntt. Large-flowered Townsendia. Fig. 4272. Townsendia grandiflora Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. (II)7 : 306. 1841. Perennial from a long woody root, branching atthe base and sometimes also above, pubescent, orat length glabrate, 2-8 high. Leaves line
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Branching from the base ; heads terminal. Acaulescent, or nearly so ; heads sessile among the I. Townsendia grandiflora Xntt. Large-flowered Townsendia. Fig. 4272. Townsendia grandiflora Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. (II)7 : 306. 1841. Perennial from a long woody root, branching atthe base and sometimes also above, pubescent, orat length glabrate, 2-8 high. Leaves linear or linear-spatulate, i-3 long, ii-3 wide, canescent headsI-ii broad, solitary at the ends of the branches; in-volucre hemispheric, its bracts scarious-margined,lanceolate, conspicuously acuminate; rays violet orpurple; pappus of the ray-flowers a crown of shortscales, that of the disk-flowers of rigid bristles longerthan the achene, which is pubescent with 2-toothedhairs. In dry soil, South Dakota to western Nebraska, Wyo-ming, Texas and New Mexico. May-Aug. Genus 2^. THISTLE FAMILY. 403
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