WOOTON AND STANDLEY—FLORA OF NEW MEXICO... 715 
Pappus of a few pales or slender awns. 
Pappus inconspicuous, a crown of 4 or 5 connate scales; 
heads in dense clusters, nearly sessile............. 3. P. angustifolia. 
Pappus of 2 or 3 rigid awns and a few interposed small 
scales; heads few, long-pedunculate................ 4. P. filipes. 
1. Pectis prostrata Cav. Icon. Pl. 4:12. pl. $24. 1797. 
Chthonia prostrata Cass. Dict. Sci. Nat. 9: 173. 1817. 
Tyre Locatity: “Habitat in Nova-Hispania.’’ 
RanaeE: Western Texas to southern Arizona, south through tropical America. 
New Mexico: Gila Hot Springs; Mangas Springs; Organ Mountains. Plains and 
low hills, in the Lower and Upper Sonoran zones. 
2. Pectis papposa A. Gray, Mem. Amer. Acad. n. ser. 4: 62. 1849. 
Type Locauity: ‘‘California.”’ 
RanGeE: Southern California to Utah and New Mexico. 
New Mexico: Mesa near Las Cruces; Mesilla Valley. Dry plains and low hills, in 
the Lower Sonoran Zone. 
3. Pectis angustifolia Torr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. 2: 214. 1828. 
Pectis papposa sessilis Jones, Contr. West. Bot. 12: 46. 1908. 
Tyre Locauity: ‘‘On the Rocky Mountains.”’ 
RanGeE: Colorado and Kansas to Arizona and western Texas, south into Mexico. 
New Mexico: Zuni; Canyon Largo; Santa Fe; Albuquerque; Cerrillos; Las Vegas; 
Mountainair; Gallinas Mountains; Clayton; Nara Visa; Bear Mountains; Fort Bayard; 
San Marcial; Graham; Guadalupe Canyon; Santa Rita; Organ Mountains; Tortugas 
Mountain; Gray; Roswell. Plains and low dry hills, in the Lower and Upper Sonoran 
zones. 
4. Pectis filipes A. Gray, Mem. Amer. Acad. n. ser. 4: 62. 1849. 
Type Locauity: ‘‘California.’’ 
RanGeE: Western Texas to southern Arizona. 
New Mexico: Carlisle; Burro Mountains; Mangas Springs; Gila Hot Springs; 
_ Fort Bayard; Dog Spring; Guadalupe Canyon. Dry hills and mesas, in the Lower 
and Upper Sonoran zones, 
86. NICOLLETIA A. Gray. 
Low perenifal herb with alternate, pinnately parted leaves and large heads of 
purple or flesh-colored flowers; involucre of 8 or 9 distinct bracts, oblong or cylindric; 
receptacle naked; achenes linear-filiform; pappus double, the outer of numerous 
capillary bristles, the inner of 5 lanceolate hyaline awned scales. 
1. Nicolletia edwardsii A. Gray, Pl. Wright. 1: 119. pl. 8. 1852. 
Tyrr Locauity: Near Guajuquilla, Chihuahua, Mexico. 
Rance: Western Texas and southern New Mexico to Mexico. 
We have seen no specimens of this from within o our limits, but Doctor Gray reported 
specimens from New Mexico. 
87. BOEBERA Willd. Ferrip MARIGOLD. 
Diffusely branched, strong-scented annual with opposite, finely dissected leaves 
and small heads of yellow flowers; rays few, short; involucre campanulate, of 8 to 10 
appressed oblong bracts with a few narrow shorter outer ones; achenes narrowly 
obpyramidal, 3 to 5-angled, pubescent; pappus of about 10 scales, divided to below 
the middle into stiff capillary bristles. 
