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Townsendia scapigera, Eaton, so far as I know it, is rare. 
If all the plants which have been referred to it belong with it, 
the range is at least from southern Utah and northward to Idaho 
and westward to California, in the mountains at low elevations; 
i. e., not alpine. Taking the type as given by Eaton in Bot. 
4oth, Parallel 5, 145, Fig. 17, my material from McIntyre’s ranch, 
Utah, May 18, 1891, at 7000 feet altitude, corresponds with 
Eaton’s type exactly, except that the plant is densely matted 
(surely perennial); leaves very narrowly linear, a little widened 
at apex, heads many and sessile, one-half inch high, three- 
quarter inch wide. Other characters not given by Eaton are that 
the rays are a line wide; lead-purple in the centre and with 
white margins, half an inch long, pubescent with white, rarely 
yellow, atomiferous gland-like bodies on the outside, rather firm 
in texture; leaves strigose and rough, thickish. 
My material from Deep Creek, Utah, June 6, 1891, altitude 
5500 feet, is the same as the above, except that the rays are only 
three lines long, and the leaves are spatulate and hoary strigose; 
plant two years old. My material from Schellbourne, Nevada, 
July 13, 1891, at 8000 feet altitude, is certainly three years old, 
and the same as Eaton’s type, but closely branched; inner scales 
linear oblong, mostly acute, hyaline margin narrow; peduncles 
barely surpassing the leaves; very minutely pubescent; rays 
pubescent asin the above. My material from Wells, Nevada, is 
certainly perennial in small mats, whole plant white and rough 
with stiff hairs; peduncles with several bracts: scales linear, sim- 
ply acute, sparsely strigose, lacerate margins rather wide; other- 
wise as in the type. The first form given under this species 
would be at once taken for 7: sericea, but it is not that plant. 
Other forms that may eventually prove to be 7: scapigera I 
have given the provisional name of 7: montana. ‘To all appear- 
ances they make at least one good species. The type is a speci- 
men from Alta, Utah, collected above the Flagstaff mine at about 
9500 feet altitude, and therefore subalpine or alpine growing on 
tocky mountain sides. Loosely matted from a root at least three 
years old; leaves one and one-half inches long, blade oblan- 
ceolate and half the whole, nearly glabrous, but petioles rough 
with short hairs and under the microscope the blades are sparsely 
