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Heller: Plants from Western North America 



leaves few, scattered, sessile, gradually becoming smaller until 

 reduced to oblong simple bracts, all obtuse : heads several, cor- 

 ymbose, I cm. broad ; bracts of the involucre ovate-oblong, ob- 

 tusish, 7 mm. long, 3-4 muL wide, thin atid scale-like, densely 

 white tomentose : corollas dull yellow : achenes roughened on the 

 margins : pappus scales very short, reduced to a mere fringe 

 around the top of the achene. 



Dr. D. T. MacDougal's no. 240, collected in " Fort Valley, 



'west of San Francisco mountain," near 



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5, 1898. The type specimen is in the herbarium of the New 

 York Botanical Garden. 



This excellent species is apparently related to H, Mcxicaniis. 



Senecio spatuliformis sp. nov. 



Stems about 3 dm. high, perennial, sparingly tufted : leaves 

 nearly all basal, these 10-15 cm. long, spatulate or oblanceolate, 

 sliglitly undulate-serrate, the apex blunt, or sometimes inclined to 

 be acute, covered with a close floccosc tomentum, except near the 

 bases of the petioles ; stem leaves very few, scattered, the lower 

 ones mingled with the basal, and similar, those of the upper half 

 sessile, linear, bract-like, midvein prominent and edges inrolled : 

 heads ten or more in number, cor3mibose, large, t cm. high, nearly 

 2 cm. broad with the rays spread, on slender pedicels, the lower of 



I mm. wide, pale, with 

 a darker line along the middle, margins scarlous : rays showy, 

 bright yellow, i cm. long, 2 mm. wide; achenes glabrous, pappus 

 white. 



Our no. 4061, collected near Elma, Chehalis county,- Wash- 

 ington, July 19, 1898. The type specimen is in my private 

 herbarium. 



which 



are 5 cm. long: involucral scales 



It occurs sparingly in a dry meadow, or "prairie,'' as s 



uch 



grassy 



open places are called in that part of the State, where open, 



, land is the exception. Its relationship is with the Scncclo camis 

 group. 



Bkdford Park, New Vork City. 



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