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by myself in several localities in 1891 and in the same region by 
Miss Eastwood in 1892. 
Townsendia glabella, Gray. This plant seems to have been 
collected but very little. Miss Eastwood sends it from Mancos, 
Colorado, collected in June, 1892. Her plants are perennials in 
a dense czespitose tuft; bases of leaves villotis otherwise glabrous, 
leaves spatulate to oblanceolate, acute, blade one-half to three- 
quarters inch long, two to three lines wide equaling the petiole; 
heads four to five lines high, on anaked peduncle one-half to one 
and one-half inches long; scales in two series the outer ones a 
little shorter and four to six in number, the inner six to eight, all 
lanceolate, acute (not acuminate) greenish at tip and with narrow 
hyaline margins; rays purple and glabrous; outer pappus one- 
“quarter the inner; root not slender. 
Townsendia strigosa Nutt. The usual form of this plant is a 
very pretty winter annual with glabrous rays, but one form 
collected in Wyoming at Church Buttes, July, 1873, seems to be 
a short-lived perennial. It abounds in the higher Sonoran 
region of eastern Utah and adjoining Colorado, and is abundantly 
distinct from 7. FendlerZ or any other species which I know. It 
does not exist in the mountains which are the home of the allied 
7. Fendleri. 
Townsendia Fendleri, Gray. As I understand this species it is 
a summer bloomer continuing till frost, it seems to begin at a 
little below 6000 feet altitude and continues to at least 8000 feet. 
It is confined apparently to the mountains of south central 
Colorado and New Mexico, being found as far west as Glenwood 
Springs (Miss Eastwood). The stems are tall strigose and rough 
and usually decidedly perennial, though it blooms the second 
year. It is at once recognized by the narrow leaves, very rough 
pubescence, and much branched habit. The rays are glabrous. 
NOTES AND NEW SPECIES. 
Thelypodium elegans, n. sp. Biennial, two to five feet high, 
erect, slender, simple, or branched at the base often; glabrous 
except racemes and stems, at least the lower ones and rarely the 
‘young pods sparsely pubescent with long tangled wool; lowest 
