226 Plants from Sinaloa, Mexico. [ZOE 
The purple hue of the stems, involucres and flowers of the grow- 
ing plant suggests the specificname. The glands of the leaves are 
very large. Collected about the margins of openings and along 
trails near Cofradia. Perhaps nearest to P. Roset. 
Pectis scabra. Annual, branching from the base, 1 dm. high; 
stems purple scabrous-pubescent: leaves linear-lanceolate, 1-2 
cm. long, 1-3 mm. wide, scabrous above, on the revolute mar- 
gins and m-drib beneath, sparingly setulose near the base: in- 
florescence somewhat terminal and fastigiate from the upper 
axils; peduncles 2-4 cm. long, sparingly bracteolate: involucre 
15-20 flowered; scales 6; linear, keeled below the middle, 
scarious-margined when mature, each bearing 5-6 glands; rays 
yellow, 6-9, linear: pappus of ray akenes 1-2 stiff awns with a 
few very small scales at base; pappus of the disk akenes 1-2 awns 
dilated at base and 1-2 small scales; akenes slightly pubescent. 
This species grows in dry rocky soil and is conspicuous on 
account of its gray appearance. It might be considered a very 
scabrous variety of P. filifes. Cofradia. 
Pectis salina. Annual, the procumbent, spreading, purple 
branches, 2 dm. long, glabrous throughout; leaves linear-lanceo- 
late, 2-4 cm. long, 6-8 mm. wide, punctate beneath with 2-4 
rows of glands, with 1-6 pairs of setze below the middle: peduncles 
2-6 cm. long, terminal and from the upper axils, naked or few- 
bracteate: invo'ucre campanulate, 5-6 mm. high, about 50- 
flowered; bracts about 8, linear, somewhat acute, bearing several 
linear glands, strongly keeled at the base when mature: rays 
bright yellow, fading darker, 5~6 mm. long: pappus of the disk 
akenes 3-5 awns, 3-4 mm. long, with broad, intermediate lacer- 
ate scales 1 mm. long; pappus of the ray akenes 1-2 scales with 
or without an awn; akenes 3 mm. long, hispidulous. 
Growing in saline soil of the salt marshes about Altata with 
Sueda, Salicornia, Philoxerus, &c. ‘The living plant is some- 
what fleshy. ‘ 
Pectis canescens HBK. Var.? Cofradia. 
fymenatherum anomalum Canby & Rose. Pappus 1.5 mm. 
long, of 10 delicate, fimbriate scales, tipped with a bristle shorter 
than the corolla, sometimes 1-2 exterior, oblong, fimbriate, minute. 
Growing in damp soil near Imala. 
Spilanthes leucophea Klatt. Culiacan and Cofradia, 
