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softer leaves with unwrinkled margins. A nearer approach still 

 to Troximon. 



No. 3033. Wet meado\vs,Hot Springs, near Warren's Mining 

 Camp, Idaho County, Idaho, July 2, 1895. Type in my private 

 herbarium ; co-type in the National Herbarium. 



Whatever claim Stephanomeria myrioclada may have to specific 

 rank, a thing I very much doubt, it is certain that Dr. Gray con- 



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fused two plants in his description of this species in the Synoptical 

 Flora. Eaton's type has the pappus just as he described it in the 

 Botany of the King Exploration— "plumose nearly or quite to the 

 base." Dr. Gray, after his description, cites two plants, one the 

 Eaton plant, collected by Watson, the other the Hawthorne, 

 Nevada plant, collected by M. E. Jones. The label attached to 

 the latter bears this inscription : " S. lygodesmoides M. E. Jones, 

 n. sp." It is so entirely different from 5. myrioclada that I do not 

 hesitate to describe it, since Mr. Jones assures me he has never 

 done so. 



. Stephanomeria lygodesmoides M. A. Jones 



Erect from a woody or even " shrubby M base, glabrous, with 

 numerous rather stout ascending branches throughout : lower 

 cauline leaves not seen; upper narrowly linear, less .than 2.5 cm. 



long, ascending or pendent, 



bragtjl 



and squarrose : head 4 mm. high, the involucre of 4 principal 

 bracts and the same number of bractlets : floji*^ 3-5 : akenes 



smooth, angled, with sordid pappus which iA^rery plumose hah 

 way down, the remaining part scabrous. *^ 



Probably the same thing, or near it, is in the Gray Herbarium 



from S. B. Parish, no. 1228, but the branches are thicker and 



more divaricate, the leavt 

 even woodier at base. Mr. Jones assures me that his plant was 

 also very woody at base. The akenes of both plants exactly 

 match. These two plants are certainly near Greene's Ptiloria 

 divaricata, but he describes his species, which I have not seen, as 

 herbaceous to the base, and with monocephalous branches, while 

 this plant has often two heads to the branch, and the pappus is 

 not u joined into bundles of three at base." 



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Nemophila inconspicua 



Small, depressed, glaucous, with the leaves and calyx much 

 more strigose than the stem ; leaves 5-lobed to parted, with 



