NEW SOUTHWESTERN PLANTS. 149 
serrate or crenate, hispid-ciliolate: head 3 inches broad includ- 
ing the large rays and equally long spreading outer bracts of 
the involucre: pappus soft and delicate, of 2 long awns and 
several intervening squamellae, all aristate-pointed and villous. 
Black Range, New Mexico, O. B. Metcalfe. n. 1435. 
BIDENS coGNaTA. Allied to B. heterosperma but stout and 
low, the heads twice or thrice as large; stem and branches 
sparsely hirtellous. the involucral bracts more obviously and 
densely so: achenes all 2-awned, the short outer ones glab- 
rous and sparsely muriculate, the long and slender inner ones 
with a few minute appressed-spinulose hairs. 
Black Range, New Mexico, at 9,500 feet, 30 Hite 1904, O. B. 
Metcalfe, n. 1436. 
LACINIARIA FORMOSA. Stout, erect, 2 feet EE leafy up to 
the short dense subpyramidal raceme of large campanulate heads : 
leaves thin, hispid-ciliolate, otherwise glabrous, all except the 
uppermost lanceolate, acute, the upper linear-lanceolate : upper 
part of stem pubescent in lines, the rachis and peduncles his- 
pidulous: outer bracts of involucre obovate, or spatulate-obo- 
vate, inner spatulate-oblong, all obtuse, green-herbaceous and 
punctate except as to the narrow margin, this dark purple, 
erose to lacerate-dentate: achenes hirtellous along the ribs ; 
pappus subplumose. 
A few plants in a meadow at Jack’s Cabin, Colo., 26 July, 
1901, C. F. Baker,n. 610. Differs from its analogue in north- 
ern Colorado and Wyoming by its thin glabrous foliage and 
more enlarged as well as more compact inflorescence. 
CoLEOSANTHUS AXILLARIS. Suffrutescent, bushy, 2 or 3 
feet high, branches of the season whitish, scabro-puberulent, 
very leafy throughout: leaves thinnish, deltoid and crenate, 14 
to 2 inches long, rather broader at base, vivid green above, 
scaberulous on the veins, underneath scaberulous and pellucid- 
glandular superficially, the veins muricate-scabrous, petioles 
ł to ł inch long: axils with short and slender leafy-bracted 
twigs each with 3 to 6 nodding heads, the whole cluster from 
half the length of the leaves in the lowest to little exceeding 
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