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the ovary ; the petals are much broader as well as larger, and the 

 anthers (of short-linear outline) fully twice longer. 



Galium Brandegei. Caespitoso-depressum, parvum, glabrum, 

 laevissimum ; radieibus fibrosis ; foliis quaternis obovatis vel spathulatis 

 fere aveniis lin. 1-3 longis; peduncuHs uniHoris solitariis biiiisve nudis ; 

 flore albido semi-lineam loiigo ; fructu l,T3vi glabro. — Valley of the 

 Rio Grande, New Mexico, on Los Finos Trail, at 9,000 feet, Sept,,- 

 1875, T. S. Brandegee, in Hayden's Expedition. Spreading extensively 

 over the barely moist ground, evidently perennial ; the stems only 2 

 or 3 inches long. We have no other North American s^Decies much 

 resembling this. 



BiiicivELLiA Greenei. Subsesquipedalis, pube viscidissima ; cauli- 

 bus usque ad capitula solitaria ramus terminantia foliosis ; foliis cauli- 

 nis ovatis obtusis medium versus inajqualiter serratis basi subtruncatis 

 brevissirne petiolatis, ramealibus oblongis subintegerrimis, sumrais 

 capitulum involucrantibus eoque brevioribus ; involucro proprio multi- 

 floro, squamis liuearibus acumiaatis glabellis, extiniis brevioribus tan- 

 tum lauceolatis ; acheniis ad angulos hirtellis. — Siskiyou Co., California, 

 on the south fork of Scott River, E. L. Greene, Aug. '24, 1876. Cau- 

 line leaves an inch long, thinnish ; those of the short and somewhat 

 corymbose flowering branches barely half an inch long. Head three 

 quarters of an inch long. 



BiGELOViA Vaseyi. Chrysothamnus : depressa, glabra, Ifevis ; cau- 

 libus e basi decumbente erectis spithamaeis ; foliis atigustis spathulato- 

 linearibus obtusis: capitulis corymboso-confertis plerumque sessilibus ; 

 involucro aiigusto oblongo subclavato 5-floro, squamis minus carinatis 

 oblongis obtusissimis chartaceis, exterioribus apice crassiore viridulo ; 

 appendicibus styli obtusiusculis parte stiginatica lineari dimidio 

 brevioribus ; ovario glaberrimo. — Colorado, in Middle Park, Dr. Geo. 

 Yasey. in Powell's Exped., 1868. Utah, on Aquarin's Plateau, at 9,000 

 feet, L. F. Ward, in Powell's Exped., 1875. Leaves an inch or less 

 in length, a line or less wide. Heads in Vasey's specimens 4 lines 

 long, in Ward's better developed ones are 5 or almost 6 lines long; the 

 scales of the involucre less carinate and less prominently straight 

 ranked than in the related species ; the greenish tij)s also suggesting 

 the Aplodiscus section. 



SoLiDAGO SPARSIFLORA. Virgaurea, Virgatce : scabrido-puberula ; 

 foliis inferioribus ignotis, su; erioribus floralibusque parvulis lanceolatis 

 (lin. 6-12 longis); racemulis oligocephalis laxis laxcque thyrsoideis ; 

 involucri squamis linearibus ])uberulis apice viridulis acutiusculis ; flori- 

 bus radii circiter 10 ligulis parvulis, disci 4-5 ; acheniis sericeo-pubes- 



