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flat on the ground in sand, at 5,000 feet altitude. May 2, 1890, at 
Cisco, in Eastern Utah. 
BIGELOVIA GLAREOSA. Many-stemmed, from a shrubby base, 
about a foot high; leaves linear, not involute, larger at tip, reduced 
to oblong bracts on the flowering branches; flowers corymbiform, 
5 in each head, yellow; involucral scales 5-ranked and 4 in each 
rank, lowest very small, upper ones successively longer, all very 
_ obtuse, somewhat keeled, the upper ones with a conspicuous, thick- 
ened, yellow tip, upper scales linear, lower ones ovate, all sparsely 
lacerate on the edge and covered with a white scurf; akenes gla- 
brous, about equaling the longest scales; corolla lobes linear-lanceo- 
late, tips glabrous, anther-appendages lanceolate. 
This is allied to B. lezosperma, but differing from it in its rather 
broadly linear not revolute leaves and narrow corolla lobes... The 
plant is probably woolly when young. It is conspicuous for its 
flowers (%4 inch long), involucral scales, and for growing in dense 
clumps. ; 
Marysvale, Southern Utah, but north of the rim of the Great 
Basin at least one hundred miles. October, 1890. It grows on 
the gravelly mesas of the Sevier River at 6,000 feet altitude. 
ASTER VENUsTUs. Allied to A. Wrightiz. Shortly floccose- 
tomentose up to the ashy-canescent involucre, the hairs on the in- 
volucral bracts short, flat and broad, and jointed so as to resemble 
rattlesnake rattles; leaves all entire, oblanceolate or lowest spatu- 
late sometimes, scarcely petioled, 3 inches or less long, generally 
apiculate, larger ones indistinctly 3-nerved, scarcely reduced up- 
wards; stems many, erect, stout, simple, shrubby at base; pedun- 
cles 1 to 2 feet long, monocephalous, leafy for the first 6 to 8 inches, 
then naked; involucral scales oblong-ovate and abruptly long-acu- 
 minate above the middle, not scarious, in about three series ; rays 
white or light purple, linear-oblanceolate, 2 lines broad and an inch 
— long, scarcely acute; pappus of unequal, stiff bristles; akene silky, 
with very slender, long, straight hairs. 
This plant differs from 4. Wright in not being in the least vis- 
cous pubescent, the bracts are not viscous nor scarious margined, 
the tips barely surpassing the disk. It grows in the deserts and near 
dry rocks. It is one of the most showy plants of the genus. 
May 2, 1890, at Cisco, Eastern Utah, and also in 1884, at or near 
Grand Junction, Colorado. 
