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Brickellia Kellermanii Greenman, sp. nov. 



Stem erect, nearly i in. in height, lignescent at the base, 

 terete, tomentulose: lower leaves opposite, the upper alternate, 

 short-petiolate, oblong-lanceolate, 3 to 6 cm. long, i to 2 cm. 

 broad, obtuse or acute, crenate-dentate to entire, subhirtellous 

 above, paler and whitish-tomentulose beneath, rather strongly 

 reticulate-nerved; petioles about 0.5 cm. long: inflorescence 

 a subcorymbose rather leafy panicle : heads many, sessile or nearly 

 so, 12 to 14 mm. high, usually i2-flowered: involucre narrowly 

 campanulate or subcylindric ; bracts of the involucre about 7- 

 seriate, strongly unequal, imbricated, sparingly pubescent, 

 ciliate, striate, pale with greenish nerves, or purplish; the outer 

 bracts ovate-oblong, mucronate, strongly ciliate, the inner 

 lance-linear, acute: flowers somewhat exceeding the involucre: 

 pappus silvery white, 6 mm. long, about as long as the white or 

 purplish-tinged corolla: achenes 3 mm. long, pubescent. 

 GUATEMALA. Department of Baha Vera Paz: Sierra de las 

 Minas, altitude 1,158 m., 3 March, 1907, W. A. Kellerman, no. 

 6127 (hb. Field Mus.). 



In leaf-outline B. Kellermanii resembles B. cylindrica and B. 

 Pringlei Gray, but it is amply distinct from both these species in 

 the nature of the inflorescence, tomentum, and in the technical 

 characters of the head. 



EGLETES VISCOSA Less. Syn. Comp. 252 (1832). Cotula viscosa L. 

 Sp. PI. 892 (1753); Willd. Sp. PI. iii. 2167 (1800). 



This species was based on material collected by Houston in 

 the region of Vera Cruz, Mexico. Specimens obtained at La 

 Purga, 31 kilometers southwest of the City of Vera Cruz, 27 

 January, 1906, /. M. Greenman, no. 257 (hb. Field Mus.), agree 

 well with the early although brief descriptions of the above 

 species, and are confidently referred to it. The species is of 

 rather wide distribution, occurring in southern Mexico, the 

 West Indies and, according to Hemsley, in South America; 

 it is, moreover, well characterized by its viscid-hirsute character 

 and somewhat lyrate or pinnately incised foliage, suggesting 

 vigorous forms of Senecio viscosus L. 



In 1890 and again in 1892 Mr. C. G. Pringle collected on river 

 banks at Las Palmas, Mexico, an Egletes which was referred to E. 

 viscosa Less. The latter of the two collections made by Mr. 

 Pringle was distributed by clerical error as "Egletes viscida 

 Less." Mr. Pringle's specimens differ in several particulars 

 from Lessing's species. Moreover, they do not correspond to 

 any known species of the genus, hence they may be characterized 

 as follows: 



Egletes Pringlei Greenman, sp. nov. 



Annual: stem erect or essentially so, simple or branched 

 from near the base, somewhat geniculate above, viscid-hirsute: 

 leaves ovate to more or less obovate, 1.5 to 7.5 cm. long, one- 

 half to two-thirds as broad, thin or membranous, rather coarsely 



