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cephalous.or sometimes geminate; peduncles a foot or less long, 
- striate, naked; leaves clustered at the top of the root which arises 
from a large tuber 3 to 5 inches beneath the ground; leaves broadly 
ovate, with a cuneate base, resembling those of Lappa minor, de- 
current into the margined, striate-veined, 1 to 4 inch long petiole, 
veins of the leaves 3 to 5; pubescence hispid-strigose throughout. 
most abundant on the petioles and bracts. 
Though this curious plant differs widely from any known species of 
Verbesina, I am inclined to place it there rather than erect a new 
genus upon it. It is a conspicuous plant on the sandy deserts 
near Grand River, in Eastern Utah. May 2, 1890, Cisco. 
BAHIA DESERTORUM. Many-stemmed from a rather lignescent, 
branching root which is covered with old leaf-petioles. Leaves all 
lanceolate with a contracted base which is decurrent into the 1- to 
4-inch long, margined petiole. Leaves plantain-like 3 to 5-nerved, 
petiole about equaling the blade, leaves mostly clustered at the 
base and lower part of the stem; stems branching above and 
branches 1 to 3-cephalous; upper leaves reduced to nearly sessile, 
_ very acute, lanceolate, or narrower bracts. Whole plant scabrous, 
glandular above. Heads when single long pedunculate, 6 lines 
wide and 7 lines high, exclusive of the golden-yellow, cuneate, 
3-toothed, inch-long rays. Scales ovate-oblong, abruptly acuminate, 
in two series equal, 4 lines long. Tip of style branches short-tri- 
angular and barely acute. Akenes linear, sparsely hairy; pappus 
¥ the length of the akene, of broad erose, and lacerate, truncate 
scales, with a decided midrib which stops considerably short of the 
tip; pappus of the ray inclined to be shorter and with an occasional 
lanceolate scale twice as long as the others. Tube of the corollas 
glandular, that of the disk abruptly enlarged above the pappus and 
campanulate-cylindric. 
This plant belongs near to the section Platyschkurria, Gray, but 
_is really intermediate between that and the preceding section, though 
it is hardly a true Bahia in habit. Collected May 2, 1890, at Cisco, 
- _ Utah, on the sunny sides of rocky hillsides on the desert. 
_ AcTINELLA Coopert Gray, is biennial, June 19, 1890, Buck- 
_ skin Mountains, on the edge of southern Utah. 
_ ASCLEPIAS BRACHYSTEPHANA Eng., really comes in near 4. 
stenophylla, the wings of the anthers fit there, and the pollinia are 
arcuate-lanceolate from a rounded base. 
