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Verbesina virgata, Cav. Ic. 3. 38, t. 275 ; probably a small 

 form. Rio Blanco, on hills among pines ; July. (167.) 



Verbesina tetraptera, Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 19. 13. Te- 

 quila, on rocky hillsides. (377.) 



Verbesina sph^rocephala, Gray, ?i. sp. Species singularis, fru- 

 ticosa. ultra-orgyalis, scabrido-puberula ; foliis oppositis integerrimis 

 ovali-oblongis acutis (majoribus 4-5-pollicaribus) basi subito contrac- 

 tis subsessilibus secus ramos in alam angustam decurrentibus, summis 

 subpoUicaribus capitula globosa brevipedunculata fulcrantibus ; in- 

 volucri pluriserialis bracteis lato-ovalibus apicibus herbaceis squarroso- 

 patentibus ; ligulis 10-12 linearibus discum hand superantibus foemin- 

 eis ; receptaculi convexi paleis moUibus apice obtuso nunc flavido 

 subpetaloide ; acheniis glabellis ala circumdata sat magna obovatis 

 biaristatis. — Guadalajara, on the sides of ravines ; September. (448.) 

 A true Verbesina, but I know no species like it. 



Verbesina pinnatifida, Cav. Ic. 1. 07, t. 100. Guadalajara, in 

 hedgerows and ravines ; October. (G98.) 



Verbesina crocata, Less. Guadalajara, river-sides among un- 

 derbrush ; October. (700.) — V. hypokuca, Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 

 15. 37, of Coulter's collection, belongs to V. mollis, HBK. 



Spilanthes Beccabunga, DC. Prodr. 5. G22. Rio Blanco, in 

 shady wet places ; June. (47, in part, the nearly glabrous plant with 

 petioled leaves.) — The rest is probably S. sessilis, Hemsl. Biol. 

 Centr.-Am. Bot. 2. 193, but the flowers are too young to examine. 



Salmea grandiceps, Cass. Rio Blanco, on shaded hillsides ; 

 September. (528.) 



Heterospermum pinnatu.m, Cav. Guadalajara, on grassy hill- 

 sides ; September. (440.) 



Coreopsis cordtlocarpa, Gray, n. sp. Eucoreopsis, suborgyalis, 

 foliosa, tenui-pubescens ; foliis omnibus oppositis petiolatis submem- 

 branaceis saapius quinatisectis, segraentis angusto-lanceolatis trifidis 

 superne laciniato-dentatis ; pedunculis subcymosis folia paullo super- 

 antibus ; involucri bracteis utrisque lineari-subulatis ; ligulis circa 10 

 oblongis integris luteis ; acheniis obeom2:»resso-clavatis glabris Itevi- 

 busque lin. 4 lougis apice contracto disco epigyno parvo terminatis 

 calvis. — "A loose-growing plant, with many stems, 5 or 6 feet high, 

 and with orange-yellow flowers"; probably perennial. Rio Blanco; 

 July. (172.) 



Coreopsis (Pseudo-Agarista) petrophila, Gray, n. sp. Fru- 

 ticosa, ramosissima, bipedalis, glabra; foliis pinnatipartitis (bipoUicari- 

 bus), segmentis 5-9 subulato-linearibus imequalibus, majoribus stepius 



