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1. S. lagopus, ''Raoul in Ann. Sci. Nat.'' Ser. iii. 2 (1844) 119, t. 18.—Rootstock stout, densely clothed at the top with long brownish silky wool. Leaves all radical, crowded, spreading; blade 1–5 in. long, broadly oblong, rounded at the tip, usually cordate at the base, margins entire or crenulate, upper surface rugose, covered with short stiff bristles, beneath densely clothed with white tomentum; petioles ½–4in. long, stout or slender, densely villous. Peduncles or scapes 1–12 in. high, simple or much branched, pubescent and glandular-pilose; bracts few, small, obtuse. Heads 1 to many,