zomes short; roots fusiform, to 2 cm. across, unbranched; stems 50-100 cm. long, pubescent or glabrous; lower cauline leaves long-petiolate, lanceolate-oblong, sometimes broadly ovate or lanceolate, 15-20 cm. long, rarely to 40 cm. long, pinnately cleft to incised, the lobes chartace이is, spreading, coarsely incised, the lobules short spine-tipped, pubescent to glabrous on both sides; heads solitary on the branches, erect at anthesis, sometimes bracteate at base; involucres depressed- globose, 2-3 cm. long, 3-4 cm. wide, cobwebby; bracts 6- to 7- seriate, many-ribbed on back, the outer elongate, spreading, lanceolate, the median longer and broader than the inner, 2-3 mm. wide, obliquely spreading at tip, often ciliate; corollas purplish or rose-colored, 17-18 mm. long. Sept-Oct Lowlands.

Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu.

var. calcicola (Nakai) Kitam. Stems 30-60 cm. long; lower cauline leaves broadly lanceolate, 10-12 cm. long, irregularly incised-serrate, crisped-pubescent on both sides, sometimes cobwebby beneath, sessile; involucres about 17 mm. long, 22-35 mm. wide; bracts 5-seriate, the outer short, broadly lanceolate, acuminate, not recurved at tip; corollas 18-19 mm. long. Honshu (Nagato Prov.).