‘IRbodora 
JOURNAL OF 
THE NEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL CLUB 
Vol. 19. © July, 1917. No. 223. 
A NEW RUDBECKIA FROM INDIANA. 
S. F. BLAKE. 
IN an interesting collection of Indiana plants recently sent to the 
Gray Herbarium by Mr. Charles C. Deam were several specimens of 
a Cone-flower of the Rudbeckia speciosa group which Mr. Deam sus- 
pected might prove to be new. The plant, although rather closely 
allied to R. speciosa Wenderoth and its var. Sullivantit (Boynton & 
Beadle) Robinson — the latter of which was collected by Mr. Deam 
in the same general region — proves in fact to be undescribed, and 
may be called, in recognition of the careful and extensive collecting: 
done by its discoverer in various parts of the United States and in: 
Central America, 
Ruppeckia Deamii, sp. nov. Perennis stolonifera stolonibus- 
brevibus apice foliatis. Caulis simplex subtenuis erectus ad 6 dm. 
altus striatus dense hirsutus pilis albidis retrorsis ad apicem caulis 
adscendentibus. Folia stolonum ovata vel ovali-ovata acuta basi 
subabrupte contracta deinde acute cuneata tenuia membranacea 
triplinervia vel subquintuplinervia supra subdense sed vix aspere: 
hirsuto-pilosa pilis adscendentibus vel subappressis basi vix dilatatis 
subtus paullulo pallidiora similiter pubescentia crenato-serrata denti- 
bus ca. 6-jugis depressis mucronulatis 7-10(-13.5) em. longa 3.5-5.2; 
(-6) cm. lata, in petiolis retrorse hirsutis vix marginatis 5-9 cm. 
longis; folia caulina 10-11 (supremis 1-2 bracteiformibus lanceolatis 
integris 2—4 cm. longis exclusis), 2-3 infima eis stolonum similia; 
media et superiora ovata acuminata basi cuneata sessilia subamplec- 
tentia 7.5-15.5 cm. longa 2.8-5 cm. lata. Capitula 1-2(-4) caulem 
et ramum axillarem terminantia 4.5-6 cm. lata; pedunculi sulcati 
hispido-pilosi pilis adscendentibus vel subappressis 9.5-13.5 em. longi; 
discus late conicus obtusus 1.1 cm. altus 1.3 cm. crassus. Involucri 
