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Oxybaphua bodlnl sp.nov. Plant 5 to 13 cm. high, diffusely spreading, the 

 branches diverging nearly at right angles; stem whitish, as in some other 

 Bpecies of this genus, glahrous to the naked eye, but under the lens minutely 

 roughened by short hairs with points turned upward; internodes 1.3 cm. long 

 or leas; leaves long-linear, fleshy-leathery, drying as if terete, glabrous; flowers 

 solitary in the axils of leaves toward the upper part of the stem, on pedicels much 

 shorter than the involucre; these, with the involucre, covered with short, stiff, ap- 

 pressed hairs ; involucre smaller, of firmer texture, and more deeply lobed than 

 in 0. anguslifolius Sweet, which is suggested by the somewhat similar fruit as 

 \ -the nearest allied species. These characters, with the diminutive fli^e, dis- 



' tinguish this plant. 



Collected at Pueblo, Colorado, by J. E. Bodin (No. 236). 

 SxpuLKATiOK ov Plaib zxi.— Plajit, about natural siaOi 



