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4. Ptiloria neomexicana Greene, Bull. Torrey Club 25: 123. 1898. 
Type LOCALITY: Mesas near Las Cruces, New Mexico. Type collected by Wooton 
(no. 482). 
Rance: Western Texas and southern New Mexico. 
New Mexico: Frisco; near White Water; mesa west of Organ Mountains; Gray; 
Parkers Well. Sandy mesas, in the Lower Sonoran Zone. 
5. Ptiloria ramosa Rydb. Mem. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 1: 453. 1900. 
Tyre LocaLity: Scotts Bluff, Nebraska. 
Rance: Montana and Nebraska to Colorado and New Mexico. 
New Mexico: Carrizo Mountains; Pecos; Sierra Grande; Las Vegas Canyon; Sandia 
Mountains; Silver City; Capitan Mountains. Dry plains and hills, in the Upper 
Sonoran Zone. 
6. Ptiloria pauciflora (Torr.) Raf. Atl, Journ. 145. 1832. 
Prenanthes ? pauciflora Torr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. 2: 210. 1828. 
Type Locauity: ‘Near the Rocky Mountains.” 
Range: Nevada and Arizona to Colorado and Texas. 
New Mexico: Cedar Hill; Chiz; Rosa; Kingston; Dog Spring; Dona Ana Mountains; 
Organ Mountains. Plains and hills, in the Lower and Upper Sonoran zones. 
2. NEMOSERIS Greene. 
Glabrous succulent winter annual with pinnatifid alternate leaves and large heads 
of white or pinkish flowers; involucre cylindric, of 7 to 15 narrow equal bracts and 
numerous short calyculate outer ones; achenes terete, fusiform, few-ribbed, attenuate 
to a slender beak; pappus of 10 to 15 slender long-plumose white bristles. 
1. Nemoseris neomexicana (A. Gray) Greene, Pittonia 2: 193. 1891. 
Rafinesquia neomexicana A. Gray, Pl, Wright. 2: 103. 1853. 
Type Locauiry: “Stony hills along the Rio Grande near El Paso,’’ Texas or Chi- 
huahua. 
Rance: Western Texas to Utah and southern California. 
New Mexico: Mangas Springs; Glorieta; Nutt Flats; mesa near Las Cruces; Organ 
Mountains. Dry mesas and low hills, in the Lower Sonoran Zone. 
3. TRAGOPOGON L. Sa.siry. 
Tall glabrous biennial or perennial with fleshy tap-root, alternate entire linear- 
lanceolate long-acuminate leaves, and large long-pedunculate heads of purplish 
flowers; involucre narrowly campanulate, the few bracts in a single series; achenes 
linear, terete, slender-beaked; pappus a single series of plumose bristles connate at 
the base. 
1. Tragopogon porrifolius L. Sp. Pl. 789. 1753. 
Type Locatity: Not stated. 
New Mexico: Pecos; Santa Fe; Ramah; Mesilla. 
The plant is frequently cultivated in gardens and often escapes. 
4. CYNTHIA Don. 
Nearly glabrous branched perennial with a rosette of basal leaves and a few sessile 
alternate cauline ones; heads medium-sized, the flowers orange-colored; involucre 
campanulate, of 9 to 15 lanceolate nerveless bracts; achenes cylindric, striate; pappus 
of 10 to 15 minute linear scales and as many or more inner bristles, the outer scales 
visible only under a strong lens. 
1. Cynthia viridis Standley, Contr. U. 8. Nat. Herb. 13: 357. 1911. 
Type Locatity: Near Cowles, Pecos River National Forest, San Miguel County, 
New Mexico. Type collected by Standley (no. 4418). 
