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4. Thelesperma longipes A. Gray, Pl. Wright. 1: 109. 1852. Cota. 
TypE Locauity: ‘Hills and dry banks of the San Pedro or Devil’s River,’’ western 
Texas. 
RanaeE: Western Texas to southern Arizona and southward. 
New Mexico: Hillsboro; Tortugas Mountain; Organ Mountains; Capitan Moun- 
tains; White Mountains; Guadalupe Mountains; Torrance. Dry hills and mesas, in 
the Lower and Upper Sonoran zones. 
In the southern part of the State this is said to be used as a substitute for tea by 
the native people. When boiled it gives the water a deep red tinge. The same 
material may be boiled several times before losing its strength. 
65. COREOPSIS L. 
Annual or perennial herbs with simple or pinnately divided leaves and solitary 
or numerous pedunculate heads of yellow or brown flowers; involucre campanulate 
or hemispheric, the bracts in 2 series, more or less united at the base, those of the 
outer series narrow and herbaceous, the inner ones broad, colored, thin and scarious 
or with scarious margins; rays conspicuous, yellow to brown; receptacle flat or slightly 
convex, chaffy; achenes flat, oblong to orbicular, winged or wingless; pappus wanting 
or minute. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
Perennial; leaves simple............ wee eee eee eee eee eee 1. C. lanceolata. 
Annuals; leaves pinnately divided. 
Achenes winged..........-.-.--.-------2-0-55 wee ee eee eeee 2. C. cardaminefolia, 
Achenes wingless.........--------02e-ee eee e eee eee ee eee 3. C. tinctoria. 
1. Coreopsis lanceolata L. Sp. Pl. 908. 1753. 
Tyre Ltocauity: “ Habitat in Carolina.”’ 
Rance: Ontario and Florida to Colorado and New Mexico. 
New Mexico: Santa Fe and Las Vegas mountains; East View. Open fields, in 
the Transition Zone. - 
2. Coreopsis cardaminefolia (DC.) Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Amer. 2: 346. 1842. 
Calliopsis cardaminefolia DC. Prodr. 5: 568. 1836. 
Type Locauity: “In Mexici prov. Texas inter Bejar et flum. Trinitatis, ad Mata- 
moros et ad lacum Sancti-Nicolai in sinu Sancti Spiritus.”’ 
RanGE: Louisiana and Texas to Kansas and New Mexico. 
New Mexico; North of Ramah; Pescado Spring. Plains, in the Upper Sonoran 
Zone. 
3. Coreopsis tinctoria Nutt. Journ. Acad. Phila. 2: 114. 1821. 
Culliopsis tinctoria DC, Prodr. 5: 568. 1836. 
Tyre Locaity: “Throughout the Arkansas territory to the banks of Red River, 
chiefly in the prairies which are subject to temporary inundation.”’ 
RANGE: Saskatchewan and Minnesota to Louisiana, Texas, and Arizona. 
New Mexico: Shiprock (Standley 7233). Upper Sonoran Zone. 
Doctor Gray states! that this was collected ‘‘ East of Mora River, in low places,”’ 
by Fendler in 1847. 
66. BIDENS L. BEaGGar-TIcKs. 
Slender or coarse annuals with opposite, simple or compound leaves and medium- 
sized heads of yellow or brownish flowers; involucre of 2 series of bracts, the inner 
thin and colored, the outer narrow and foliaceous; rays 3 to 8 or none, yellow, neutral; 
achenes flattened parallel to the bracts of the involucre or very narrow; pappus of 2 
awns or short teeth. 
1 Mem. Amer. Acad. n. ser. 4: 85. 1849. 
