618 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
New Mexico: Tunitcha Mountains; Chama; Sierra Grande; Santa Fe and Las 
Vegas mountains; West Fork of the Gila; Hillsboro Peak; Luna; White and Sacra- 
mento mountains. Meadows and thickets in the mountains, Transition to Hud- 
sonian Zone. 
2. Valeriana ovata Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 31: 645. 1904. 
Valeriana acutiloba ovata A, Nels. in Coulter, New Man. Rocky Mount. 476. 1909. 
Typr Locauity: ‘‘Cameron’s Cove,’’ Colorado. 
Rance: Mountains of Colorado and New Mexico. 
New Mexico: San Mateo Mountains; Santa I’e and Las Vegas mountains; Sandia 
Mountains; Magdalena Mountains; Holts Ranch; Kingston; Organ Peak; White 
Mountains. Transition and Canadian zones, 
8. Valeriana acutiloba Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 28: 24. 1901. 
Type Locality: Near Gray-Back Mining Camp, Sangre de Cristo Range, Colorado, 
Rance: Wyoming to Arizona and New Mexico. 
New Mexico: Santa Fe and Las Vegas mountains. Damp woods, in the Tran- 
sition and Canadian zones, 
Order 50. ASTERALES. 
KEY TO THE FAMILIES. 
Flowers all with tubular corollas or none, or only 
the imperfect ray flowers with ligulate corol- 
las. 
Stamens distinct; flowers unisexual........... 143. AMBROSIACEAE (p. 631). 
Stamens united by the anthers or if distinct the 
flowers perfect.........22.2-----.--2.-- 144. ASTERACEAE (p. 637). 
Corollas of all or only of the perfect flowers bilabi- 
ate or ligulate. 
Corollas all ligulate; herbage usually with milky 
juice; style branches filiform. .......... 141. CICHORIACEAE (p. 618). 
Corollas of all or only the perfect flowers 
bilabiate; herbage without milky juice; 
style branches short, not filiform........ 142. MUTISIACEAE (p. 630). 
141, CICHORIACEAE. Chicory Family. 
Herbs, mostly with milky bitter juice; leaves alternate; heads homogamous and 
ligulate, the flowers all perfect and with ligulate corollas; ligules 5-toothed at the 
apex; anthers auriculate at the base, not caudate; style branches filiform, minutely 
papillose, not appendaged. 
KEY TO THE GENERA, 
Pappus of plumose bristles, often paleaceous at the base. 
Achenes truncate at the apex, not beaked; flowers 
pink.......... 2.2.2 1. Privorta (p. 620). 
Achenes beaked; flowers white to purple. 
Flowers white or pinkish; leaves runcinate; in- 
volucres with a few calyculate outer 
bracts....2..2..2..0..00...2222222222200. 2. NEMOSERIS (p. 621), 
Flowers purple; leaves entire; involucres with- 
out outer calyculate bracts..............- 3. TRAGoPoGoN (p. 621), 
