Japan Flora: Stems 35-65 cm. long, nar­rowly winged, densely brownish crispcd-pubcrulent; radical leaves ovate or oblong, 5-12 cm. long, mucronate-acuminate, deeply cordate to subhastate at base, mucronate-toothed, brown- puberuknt on both sides especially toward the margin on up­per side and veins beneath, the petioles narrowly winged, the median and upper leaves gradually smaller, ovate to lanceo­late, cordate to cuneate at base; heads in groups of 2-8, in loose corymbs, pedicel led; involucres globose-campanulate, 15-16 mm. long, 13-15 mm. wide, densely brownish crisped- puberulent, dark purple on upper portion; bracts 5-seriate, the outer ovate-lanceolate, 2-4 mm. wide at base, as long as the median and inner ones, acuminate, often recurved, the inner oblong-linear, acuminate; corollas purplish, about 10 mm. long. ----- Aug.-Sept. High mountains.

Honshu (Iwaki Prov., n. Kanto Distr. and Shinano Prov.).

var. sessiliflora (Koidz.) Kitam. Heads usu­ally 2 or 3, rather large, sessile. Honshu (n. and centr. distr.).

var. involucrata (Matsum. & Koidz.) Kitam. Involucral bracts very large, recurved. Honshu (Nikko in Shimotsuke).