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ment denser and whiter beneath: flowering stems 5 inches high, 

 very slender, rather conspicuously leafy; heads about 4 or 5 

 and pedicellate; involucres not small, broadly campanulate, of 

 3 or more series of bracts of almost equal length as to their 

 strongly developed scarious part, this of a pale brown, oblong- 

 oval, obtuse or merely acutish, delicately and almost fimbriately 

 serrate under a lens, in maturity more or less spreading. 



Cape Eskimo, Hudson Bay, August 26th, 1910, J. M. 

 Macoun, Geological Survey number 79270. I suspect that the 

 plant here described is a male. The width, as well as the spread- 

 ing character of the scarious part of the bracts would seem to 

 indicate as much. Of the same import is the decidedly short 

 pappus, which does not equal in length the involucre; but the 

 pappus is capillary, without trace of dilatation at tip, and this 

 fact militates against the supposition that the plant is a male; 

 for, habitally at least, and also even by the characters of the 

 involucre the species allies itself with that group of northern 

 Rocky Mountain species of which ,4. parviflora, Nutt., and A. 

 umbrinella, Rydb., are. typical ; and in all this group as far as 

 known the male pappus is wide at tip. But, of whatever group, 

 the species is a well marked new one. 



Antennaria nitens sp. nov. Apparently densely matted, 

 the crowded basal leaves on very short scarcely stalked offsets, 

 Jess than x / 2 inch long, spatulately oblanceolate, acute, of a 

 vivid green and altogether glabrous above, underneath sparsely 

 silky-hairy, both faces polished and shining though also minutely 

 puncticulate ; stems slender, brownish and wirv, rigidlv erect, 

 sparsely scabrulous under a lens, otherwise glabrous, 2 to 4 

 inches high, bearing rather approximate and suberect oblong 

 leaves and mostly a solitary head; involucres large for the plant, 

 open campanulate, the bracts with but a trace of woolly hairs 

 below the middle, their scarious tips of a dull brown, broadly 

 ovate, acute, serrulate not as long as the chartaceous body of 

 the bract; bristles of pappus firm, not dilated, but strongly 

 barbellate from below the middle to near the summit. 



Wager Inlet, an arm of the western part of Hudson Bav, 

 latitude 65 15', collected by Mr. J. M. Macoun, September 8th, 

 1910, number 79269. The plants were quite past flowering at that 

 date and had even shed most of their pappus, enough of which 

 had remained, however, to show their very marked character of 

 being almost plumose in the middle and upper portion. All the 

 specimens seen by me are monocephalous except one, and that 

 has two heads, the properly terminal one being far surpassed 

 by the one lateral which is borne on a very slender pedicel. 

 I can hardly doubt that the plants are all staminate. The 



