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212 LEAFLETS. 
West Fork of the Rio Gila, 28 Aug., 1903, O. B. Metcalfe. A 
member of the group of E. divergens. 
SENECIO CYNTHIOIDEs. Perennial, tufted, with habit of S. 
Fendleri, but foliage entire, pale, glabrous above and strongly 
glaucous, narrowly oblanceolate or almost linear, obtuse or 
acutish, beneath tomentulose, the cauline reduced and few; 
cymes and heads as in S. Fend/eri, rays much longer, pale-yellow ` 
achenes light-colored, glabrous, oblong, obtusely 5-angled, and 
with more than twice as many obscure intervening striae. 
Hillsides along Turkey Creek in the Mogollones, 23 Aug., 
1903, O. B. Metcalfe; a plant with pale entire leaves, recall- 
ing certain cichoriaceae. 
> SENECIO MOGOLLONICUS. Perennial, with tall stems decum- 
bent at base, then upright, ending in a single large head: basa} 
leaves spatulate-oblanceolate, the lowest and largest 4 inches 
long, without clear distinction of blade and petiole, of firm tex- 
ture, entire, green, though slightly flocculent on both faces, those 
of the upper and pedunculiform part of the stem reduced, lance- 
linear; head #-inch high, broadly turbinate; rays few, small, 
and inconspicuous for so large a plant, deep-yellow ; achenes not 
seen. 
Dry flats on the West Fork of the Gila, 7 Aug, 1903, O. B. 
Metcalfe. The species is related, but not closely, to S. Actinella. 
_ SENECIO PRIONOPHYLLUS. Size and habit of S. Balsamitae, 
_~ the stem more nearly naked and subscapiform; the plant gla- 
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brous, or with but traces of flocculent indument: basal leaves with 
slender petioles 2 or 3 inches long, blades 1 or 2 inches, oblong 
and obovate-oblong, closely serrate rather than crenate, none 
lobed or pinnatifid, wholly glabrous; cauline few, much re- 
duced, sessile, pinnatifid; heads few, larger than in S. Bal- 
samitae, rays shorter; achenes glabrous, light-colored, 5-angled, 
and with 5 alternating slender ribs. 
Moist flats on the west Fork of the Gila, in the Mogollones, 
7? Aug., 1903, O. B. Metcalfe. 
