208 Rhodora [DECEMBER 
dorsally marked with a purplish spot at or just below the apex.— 
Gen. ii. 148 (1818); Ell. Sk. ii. 398 (1824); DC. Prod. v. 289 (1836); 
Reade, Plants of the Bermudas, 40 (1883); all as E. pusillum. E. 
canadensis, var. pusillus Bart. Fl. Philad. ii. 108 (1818), as pusillum. 
Caenotus pusillus (Nutt.) Raf. Fl. Tellur. ii. 50 (1837), by implication; 
Hook. f. € Jacks. Ind. Kew. i. 370 (1893).— MassacnusETTs: Ply- 
mouth, Oakes; sandplain, Cataumet, Bourne, 26 Oct. 1913, Fernald; 
head of sand beach, Wild Harbor, Falmouth, 25 Aug. 1906, Batchelder; 
dry sandy soil, Chatham, 9 Sep. 1913, Fernald & Long; Chilmark, 
Martha’s Vineyard, Harris. RmopE Istanp: waste places, Provi- 
dence, August, 1844, Thurber. Without stated locality but probably 
in New Jersey or Pennsylvania, Nuttall. Kentucky (southeastern 
part): near Poor Fork Post Office, Kearney, no. 218 (Gray Herb.); 
Pine Mountain, Harlan County, Kearney, no. 218 in part (herbarium 
of W. Deane). SovrH CAROLINA: Charleston, Beyrich; common 
in fields, Santee Canal, Ravenel; in loose sand, Isle of Palms, Robinson, 
no. 51. GEORGIA: in fields, Beyrich, no. 3263. Fiorma: Biscayne 
Bay, Palmer, no. 246; Braidentown, Tracy, no. 7077; weed in waste 
places, Meyers, Hitchcock, no. 144. Misstsstppr: Biloxi, Tracy, no. 
6349; Horn Island, Tracy, no. 6348. Texas: Huntsville, Walker 
Co., Dixon, no. 411. Yucatan: Izamal, Gaumer, no. 846. STATE 
oF VERA Cruz: alt. 825 m., Cordoba, Seaton, no. 446; Coatzacoalcos, 
C. L. Smith, no. 582. GUATEMALA: Laguna de Ayarza, alt. 2440 m., 
Heyde & Lux, no. 3801 (distrib. J. D. Smith). Costa Rica: culti- 
vated ground, Tuis, Tonduz, no. 11,478; Copey, Tonduz, nos. 11,773, 
11,766; hills of Santiago near San Ramón, Brenes, no. 14,363. Co- 
LOMBIA: Santa Marta, H. H. Smith, no. 527. DurcH Gurna: Kap- 
pler, no. 1212. Bermupa IsrLANDS: sand dunes, Paget, 10 June, 
1905, Harshberger; waste ground, Somerset Island, S. Brown, no. 641; 
roadsides, Devonshire, Collins, no. 48; roadsides, Flatts Village, 
Collins, no. 405; Middle Road, Collins, no. 310. BAHAMA ISLANDS: 
dry lime sand, Nassau, Wight, no. 1313. Jamaica: St. Margaret's 
Bay, Millspaugh, no. 1918. Sr. Crorx: roadside, Ricksecker, no. 484. 
Sr. VINCENT: H. H. de G. W. Smith, no. 1930. GRENADA: Tempé, 
St. George, 25 Sep. 1905, Broadway. New Sourn Wares: Kurnell, 
Botany Bay, Boorman, no. 2. 
E. CANADENSIS L. Stem 0.1-2 m. high, spreading-hirsute with 
scattered long horizontally divergent trichomes: leaves narrowly 
lanceolate or oblanceolate to linear, ciliate, the lower usually toothed: 
heads in an at length elongated cymose panicle; involucral scales 
linear-attenuate with scarious usually more or less crisped margins 
and gradually pointed whitish tips.— Spec. Pl. ii. 863 (1753), as E. 
canadense. E. paniculatum Lam. Fl. Fr. ii. 141 (1778). Senecio 
ciliatus Walt. Fl. Car. 208 (1788). E. strictum DC. Prod. v. 289 
(1836), a form with the young inflorescence compactly thyrsoid. 
Caenotus canadensis (L.) Raf. Fl. Tellur. ii. 50 (1837), by implication; 
Hook. f. € Jacks. Ind. Kew. i. 370 (1893). Conyzella canadensis (L.) 
