Tas. 6302. 
HAPLOPAPPUS sprnutosvs. 
Native of the Rocky Mountains. 
Nat. Ord. Composirm.—Tribe AsTEROIDE®. 
Genus Harroparpus, Cass. (Benth. and Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 258). 
Hartorappus (Blepharodon) spinulosus; fruticulus cano-tomentosus, corymboso- 
ramosus, ramis foliosis, foliis brevibus 1-2-pinnatifidis segmentis brevibus 
recurvis acuminatis aristulatis, capitulis terminalibus solitariis v. subeorym- 
bosis pedunculatis, involucri hemispherici squamis numerosis parvis arcte 
imbricatis subulato-lanceolatis mucronatis canis, radiis numerosis patentibus 
obtusis aureis, disci corollis breviter 5-dentatis, pappi setis rufis, acheniis 
oblongo-obovatis compressis sericeis. 
Apropaprus? spinulosus, DC. Prod. vy. p. 347. 
A. spinulosus, Torr. and Gr. Fl. N. Am. vol. ii. p. 240. 
Amettus? spinulosus, Pursh. Fl. N. Am. vol. ii. p. 564.; Torr. in Ann. Lyc. New 
York, vol. ii. p. 213. 
StankEa? pinnata, Nutt. Gen. vol. ii. p. 169. 
Dirtoparrvs pinnatifidus, Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. vol. il. p. 22. : 
Diererta spinulosa, Nutt. in Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. (N. Ser.), vol. viii. p. 801. 
A widely distributed native of the prairies bordering the 
Rocky Mountains, from the boundary of the British possessions 
as far South as New Mexico, apparently common about the 
source of the Saskathchewan, Platte, and Colorado rivers. It 
forms a low corymbosely branched bush, one to two feet high, 
with innumerable branches from the root, clothed with small 
leaves, and bearing masses of flower-heads. One specimen from 
Mr. Veitch’s garden, about ten inches in diameter, bears 
nearly a hundred golden heads, an inch in diameter, and I 
cannot doubt but that they will prove a most ornamental 
hardy garden plant when fully established, preferring, no 
doubt, a rather dry soil and climate, and flowering, like many 
other Composite, late in the year. The specimen here figured 
was raised by Messrs. Veitch, who introduced it ; it flowered 
with them in August, 1874. 
JUNE Ist, 1877, 
