Japan Flora: Rhizomatous; stems 70-100 cm. long, cobwebby, purplish; lower cauline leaves long-petiolate, ovate or ovate-oblong, 15- 23 cm. long, acute, mucronate, usually deeply cordate at base, palmately pinnatifid, the segments oblong or lanceolate, acute, irregularly mucronate-toothed or denticulate, green above, white-tomentose beneath, the upper leaves smaller, short-peti- olate or sessile, truncate to cuneatcly rounded at base; involu­cres globose-campanulate, about 26 mm. long, 3-4 cm. wide, loosely cobwebby; bracts many-seriate, needlelike, spine-tipped, the outer recurved, the inner erect, 1.5 mm. wide; achenes about 6 mm. long, about 2.5 mm. wide, glabrous, toothed; pappus brownish, about 20 mm. long, rather unequal in length. Oct. Mountains;

Honshu (Kinki Distr. and westw.), Shikoku, Kyushu. Korea.

var. indivisus Kitam. Leaves undivided. Honshu, Shikoku, Kyu­shu. Korea.