3% Heleniun L. Sneegeweed, 
Perennial herbs with alternate leaves the upper of which are sessile 
and decurrent upon the stem. Heads showy, hemispherical or nearly globose, 
their involucres consisting of « or 6 les ov linear-lanceolate bracts, 
the outer of wiich are herbaceous, tue inner shorter and membranous, reflexed 
in fruit; @#e recentacies subelovose , naked. ‘Ray-flowers yellow, fertile, 
their corollas wedse-shaped, J-&-tootned ; aisc-flowers yellow, compact. 
Achenes narrowly cuneiform, 4-o-ancledgioncitudinally ribbed, the ribs hispid; 
pappus of 4-G membranous scales which “Ee cér into a membranous awn. 
le He montanua lutt. ———» arect leafy perenniagS herds 15-60 
cme tail, the basal leaves narrowly oblanceolate, <-4 cm. lonz, tanering to 
an indefi inite ; netiole, soon Withering, the upper ‘Lés¥an broadly ellintical or 
obovaie, acute, eascite seh decurrent am the length of the inter- 
nodes, thus forming narrow wings uron the mee remotely and shallowly toothed, 
both surfaces ,labrous, sprinkled witn obscure sessile glands; heads more or 
5 a arta corymbose, on rough peduncles 2-3 cm. long, soon becoming globose, their 
invol- $A OLAS OO i ere eee | inoar-laiceclate or subulate, very 
Ce 
1eral acute DRacsp, Cc OUTCL Chee em 6-6 mi. lon; ray-corolias bright colden- 
wacks yellow, 12-16 mu. lone, cuneiform, J=4-toothed or lobed, clandular and puber- : 
ulent on the lower surface; disc- gorolias yellow; ac! lencs « iMMe long, glandular 7 
q) with sessile glands, hispid on the ribs, pappous-scales somewhat shorter than 
the body of the. achene, more or less lacerate. 1 
Occasional in moist earth alone slow streams or lakes. —> ; 
Noh ——> dandpoint, Jnling 10405; Pearl Isl., Dumile; fort Hill, Epling 10463. 1 
