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Heller : Plants from Western North America 551 



south of Flagstaff, Arizona, June 12, 1898, "in a meadow on the 

 summit of Mormon mountain, near a small lake." This seems to 



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"be a well-marked species, differing considerably from the other 

 species which are low, and bear rounded thickish leaves. The 

 type specimen is in the herbarium of the New York Botanical 



Garden. 



Crepis atridarba Heller, Bull. Torn Bot. Club, 26 : 314. 1899. 

 The specific name of this plant was by error spelled '' atra- 

 barba'' in the original publication, and should be corrected in the 

 place cited above. 



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Hymenopappus gloriosus sp. nov. 



Stems 2-2.5 dm. high, multicipital from "a stout root, some- 

 what floccose, evidently densely so when young : leaves basal, 

 4-6 cm. long, petioles as long as the blade, or slightly longer, 

 with woolly bases, the other parts densely gray tomentose or floc- 

 cose, primary divisions i cm. long, usually 4-divided, the divi- 

 sions linear, i mm. wide, the edges inrolled ; stem leaves reduced 

 to two or three sessile bracts, the lower ones with several divi- 

 sions : pedicels stout, 5 mm. long : heads 3 or 4, scattered, the 

 lowest about 5 cm. from the uppermost, large, 1. 5 cm. high, 

 nearly 2 cm. broad ; bracts of the involucre obovate, or some of 

 the smaller outer ones oblong, 8 mm. long, 4 mm. wide, broadly 

 margined with crimson, the middle (portion green, tomentose : 

 corollas bright yellow, 4 mm. high : achenes densely fringed with 

 silky white hairs : pappus scales acute, slightly costate, a little 

 longer than the width of the achene. 



No. 



MacDougal on "dry .slopes 

 on eastern side of Mormon mountain," some distance south of 

 Flagstaff, Arizona, June 7, 1898. The type specimen is preserved 

 in the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden. 



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This handsome species is related to H. hitciis Nutt., but is 

 easily distinguished by the broader leaf segments, the larger heads 

 with crimson-edged scales, and the bright yellow corollas. 



Hymenopappus obtusifolius sp. nov. 



Perennial or perhaps biennial ; stems corymbosely branched 

 from near the base, 3 dm. high, floccose : leaves all white-tomen- 

 tose beneath, the upper sides greener, mostly basal, these 5-7 cm. 

 long, the petioles equaling the blades, divisions in three or four 

 pairs, 1.5 cm. long, 5 mm. wide, obovate-oblong, obtuse; stem 



