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Stem and leaves smooth and glabrous 29–32 Pubescent or scabrous 33–36 Leaves not 3-ribbed, or only obscurely triple-nerved.

Hairy, the branches naked at the summit and bearing single heads; leaves spatulate-oblong or lanceolate, partly clasping, triple-nerved, the upper entire, mostly obtuse; rays about 12, equalling or exceeding the ample involucre; chaff of the dark purple disk nearly smooth and blunt.—Dry soil, N. J. and Penn. to Ky., Mo., and southward.—Variable,

Triple-ribbed, Triple-nerved, &c., where a midrib branches into three, near the base of the leaf.

Of the triple-nerved laurels several are referred to Cinnamomum.

Its firm, rather thick leaves are lance-shaped, triple-nerved, entire, very rough-margined, or perhaps the lowest ones with a few scattered teeth.