544 Prrer: West AMERICAN 
Wash. The following specimens agree exactly with the Douglas 
specimen in the Gray herbarium. 
Spokane, 1 June 1891, Henderson ; Spokane, 16 May and 2 
July 18096, Piper, 2292; Hangman Creek, 18 May 1893, Sand- 
berg & Leiberg, 36. 
The following is a description of the fruit : 
Nutlets 5 mm. long; marginal prickles united for about half 
their length into a wing, all the prickles glochidiate ; back plane 
or usually with a faint central ridge, roughly muriculate and 
bearing eight or ten short glochidiate prickles; ventral surface 
smooth, the scar central. 
, 12. Lappula setosa sp. nov. 
Perennial, 30-60 cm. high, bristly hirsute throughout, without 
any finer pubescence : radical leaves linear-oblanceolate, obtuse oF 
acute, 6-10 cm. long including the petioles; cauline sessile of 
nearly so, linear or lance-linear, gradually reduced upwards ; 
calyx-lobe oblong-linear, obtuse, hispid, 3-4 mm. long: corolla 
bright blue, 12-15 mm. broad, the tube not exceeding the calyx; 
appendage semicircular, short pilose, the protuberance small : 
fruit 5 mm. long, the marginal prickles united for one half their 
length into a wing: dorsal surface nearly plane, granulate scab- 
rous, bearing a few very short glochidiate bristles ; ventral surface 
granulate, the narrowly triangular scar central. a 
OrEGon: Waldo, June 1884, in flower, Howell, 218. 
CALIFORNIA: Siskiyou Mountains, 17 June 1884, in fone’: 
Howell; Snow Mountain, 23 June 1892, in flower, Brandegee» 
Sierra Valley, July 18383 (type), in fruit, Lesezon. Specimen r 
herbarium California Academy of Science. 
A well-marked species, easily recognized by its large b 
flowers and bristly pubescence. 
Jue 
/ 13. Lappula cinerea sp. nov. 
Perennial, erect, 40-60 cm. high, cinereous throughout oe 
appressed pubescence, some coarser hispid hairs intermixX€¢, ate 
larger of which are papillate at base: basal leaves linear OF we 3 
lanceolate, obtusish, 6-10 mm. long; cauline similar, rather i 
reduced upwards: inflorescence in fruit loose, the branches ae 
em. long: calyx-lobes linear-lanceolate, acute: corolla white, 
tube 2 mm. long, the obovate-orbicular lobes 3 mm. long ; appe 
dages short-pilose, the crest semicircular in form, retuse af ad 
the protuberance on the inner side hemispherical, and se} 
