Japan Flora: Stems about 70 cm. long, pubescent; median cauline leaves elliptic- lanceolate or oblong-1 anceolate, caudate, narrowed at base, sparingly pubescent on both sides, sessile, clasping, deeply-pin- natifid, the lobes 4-7 pairs, lanceolate, acuminate, the spines 3- 12 mm. long; heads small, many, nodding in anthesis; involu­cres tubular, 1.4-1.7 cm. long, 1.2니.8 cm. across, cobwebby, prominently viscid, the bracts 7-seriate, the outer short, lanceo­late or ovate-lanceolate, acute to obtuse, short spine-tipped, the median appressed, oblong-lanceolate; corollas purplish, 14-16 mm. long. Aug.-Sept. Mountains;

Honshu (Mount Oomine in Yamato).