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the back of the fruit, was found to be very inconstant. Recent examin- 
ation of the American material, however, shows that it differs from 
the European in having the leaves elliptic-lanceolate or narrowly 
ovate and acuminate, the leaves of the European type being spatulate- 
oblanceolate. In the latter plant the back of the fruit is deltoid-ovate; 
in the American plant more definitely deltoid. Typical L. deflexa 
extends eastward into China while var. americana is present in Amur 
(Maximowicz). 
AGOSERIS gaspensis, spec. nov., perennis; foliis lineari-lanceolatis 
flaccidis integris vel remote pinnato-incisis glabris basi ciliatis; scapo 
deinde folia superante apice villoso; involucri bracteis lanceolatis 
attenuatis 1.5-2 cm. longis, exterioribus viridibus apice recurvatis 
basi valde villoso-ciliatis, ciliis 1-2 mm. longis, bracteis interioribus 
scariosis valde purpureo-maculatis; floribus aeneis; pappo albo deinde 
1.2-1.5 em. longo, setis minute serrulatis: achenio lineari-fusiformi 
7-9 mm. longo glabro, rostro 5-7 mm. longo firmo vix filiformi glabro. 
— Tabletop Mountains, Gaspé County, QUEBEC: dry stony subalpine 
meadows, at 1100-1200 m. altitude, east of Lac Perrée, August 14, 
1923, M. L. Fernald, C. W. Dodge, & L. B. Smith, no. 26,119; alpine 
and subalpine meadows and brooksides, northern and northeastern 
slopes (alt. 950-1300 m.) of Mt. McNab, August 7, 1923, Fernald, 
Dodge & Smith, no. 26,120 (TYPE in Gray Herb.); subalpine meadows 
on southern slope (alt. about 1200 m.) of Mt. Au Clair, August 10, 
1923, Fernald & Smith, no. 26,121. 
Strongly simulating Agoseris gracilens (Gray) Kuntze of the region 
from southern Alberta and British Columbia to Wyoming, Utah, 
Nevada and northern California. That species, however, as shown 
by Gray’s criginal material of Troximon gracilens, has the body of 
the achene only 5-7.5 mm. long and hispid at summit (in A. gas pensis 
7-9 mm. long and glabrous); the delicate filiform beak 6-8 mm. long 
(the stouter and firm beak of A. gaspensis 5-7 mm. long); and the 
mature pappus only 8-10 mm. long (in A. gaspensis 1.2-1.5 cm. 
long). Furthermore, in 4. gracilens the disk at the tip of the beak is 
about 0.5 mm. in diameter, in A. gaspensis nearly twice as broad. 
A. gaspensis is of peculiar interest because it is the first member 
of this predominantly cordilleran genus to be found in the Shick- 
shock Mountains, a region in which the cordilleran relationship is 
very pronounced and already well known through such plants as 
Polystichum mohrioides, var. scopulinum (D. C. Eaton) Fernald 
(discussed on p. 89), Salix brachycarpa Nutt., Dryas Drummond 
Richardson, Lonicera involucrata (Richardson) Banks, and hundreds 
of others. 
