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ally of the same shape as the basal, but short-petioled, or the up- 

 permost reduced to linear bracts : anthodia about ten, fastigiately 

 corymbose : involucre 10-14 mm. long, wooly, the divisions linear, 

 green whitish margins, costa not prominent, clothed with spread- 

 bristles ; corollas evenly notched 

 with five very short, blunt teeth ; immature achenes light brown, 

 apparently of almost even width ; pappus longer than the achenes. 



Our no. 3302, collected on the slope below Lake Waha, Nez. 



ing, minutely glandular, black 



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w^ere growing 



^22, 1896, altitude about 1800 feet, 

 in rich, stonv, basalt formation. In 



The plants 



shape and cut of leaf, this species resembles C. barbigera Leiberg, 



but in no other respect. The type is in my private herbarium. 



Grindelia Brownii sp. nov. 



Perennial; stems clustered from a stout, ligneous root, 35-60 

 cm. high, slightly chaffy, red or purplish, branching above, leafy 

 throughout : leaves sessile, spatulate-lanceolate, acute, the lower 

 about 5 cm. long, and little more than i cm. wide at the w^idest 

 part, serrate wath spreading teeth ; upper shorter and narrower in 

 proportion, and often entire : heads i cm. high, and litde broader ; 

 bracts of the involucre lanceolate or linear, the outer shorter and 

 narrower, recurved ; achenes short, obovate, truncate, several 

 ribbed, two of these wing-like ; pappus of two awns. 



Our no. 3418, collected on the *' breaks'' of the Salmon River^ 



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near the mouth of Maloney Creek (about Forest on labels), Nez 

 Perces County, Idaho, July 14, 1896, altitude about 2000 feet. 

 The plants were growing on a precipitous grassy slope, in granite 

 formation. Specimens w^ere, perhaps, distributed without specific 

 name, or as Grindelia sqiiarrosa, under w^hich species it can hardly 



be placed. 



Named in honor of Mr. H. E. Brown, who acted as guide 

 during the day on w^hich the species w^as collected, and greatly as- 



sisted my wife and myself in our work. The type is In my 

 private herbarium. 



411 West Walnut Street, Lancaster, Ta. 



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