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florida: Chapman; Duval County, N. E. Florida, Curtiss, 
no. 1190; near Jacksonville, Curtiss, nos. 4437 and 5162. 
A showy species hitherto confused with Eupatorium album and 
not yet found without the State of Florida. The general habit 
of the species is that of its nearest relative, &. album, but in place 
of an acute leaf-blade there is an obtuse apex. However, the 
crucial character lies in the inner involucral bracts; these, instead 
of being long-acuminate, are linear-spatulate and conspicuously - 
mucronate, the dilated portions of a white or creamy-white color. 
“ CHrYSOPSIS RUTHII. 
Perennial, slender, silvery-pubescent, stoloniferous. Stems dif- 
fusely branched, 1-3 dm. long, the branches ascending or decum- 
bent, very leafy, densely so above; leaves linear or some linear- 
lanceolate, 2-5 cm. long, acuminate, entire, sessile, the old ones 
becoming longitudinally ribbed; heads solitary, or corymbosely 
disposed, about 1 cm. high; peduncles 1.5-2 cm. long, densely 
glandular; involucral bracts linear or linear-lanceolate, in 4~5 
series, glandular on the back, the pale edges ciliate, the apex 
bearded; rays bright yellow, elliptic-spatulate, 7-8 mm. long, 
slightly notched at the apex; corolla 5 mm. long, yellow, the seg- 
ments triangular, sparingly ciliate, nearly erect; pappus dirty 
white, slightly shorter than the corolla; filaments and anthers 
glabrous; style glabrous, except the very sparingly glandular top; 
achenes pubescent. 
Rocks in the Hiawassee Valley, eastern Tennessee. — 
A low stoloniferous species related to Chrysopsis graminifolia 
from which it differs conspicuously in being low, diffusely branched 
and bushy. Besides the very slender habit, the small acumi- 
nate leaves, the glandular peduncles and narrower and more 
acuminate involucral bracts distinguish Chrysopsis Ruthu from C. 
graminifolia. The species is named for Prof. A. Ruth, of Knox. 
ville, Tenn. 
’ Sirppium Mouril. 
Perennial, coarse, very hispid throughout with shaggy hairs. 
Stem erect, 6-12 dm. tall, simple below, branched above, finely 
channelled in age; leaves alternate, ovate-lanceolate to narrowly 
Ovate, 5-14 cm. long, acuminate, remotely serrate with promi- 
nent teeth, except near the base and apex, sessile or nearly 
so; heads 3.5-4.5 cm. broad, peduncled; involucres broadly cam- 
panulate, the bracts lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 8-14 mm. long, 
acute or somewhat acuminate; corolla about 4 mm. long, the 
