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by myself in several localities in 1891 and in the same region by 

 Miss Eastwood in 1892. 



Townsendia glabella. Gray. This plant seems to have been 

 collected but very little. Miss Eastwood sends it from Mancos, 

 Colorado, collected in June, 1892. Her plants are perennials in 

 a dense caespitose tuft; bases of leaves villous otherwise glabrous, 

 leaves spatulate to oblanceolate, acute, blade one-half to three- 

 quarters inch long, two to three lines wide equaling the petiole; 

 heads four to five lines high, on a naked peduncle one-half to one 

 and one-half inches long; scales in two series the outer ones a 

 little shorter and four to six in number, the inner six to eight, all 

 lanceolate, acute (not acuminate) greenish at tip and with narrow 

 h3^aline margins; rays purple and glabrous; outer pappus one- 

 quarter the inner; root not slender. 



^ To'W7isendia strigosa Nutt. The usual form of this plant is a 

 very pretty winter annual with glabrous rays, but one form 

 collected in Wyoming at Church Buttes, July, 1873, seems to be 

 a short-lived perennial. It abounds in the higher Sonoran 

 region of eastern Utah and adjoining Colorado, and is abundantly 

 distinct from T. Fendleri or any other species which I know. It 

 does not exist in the mountains which are the home of the allied 

 T. Fendleri. 



^ Tow7isendia Fendleri, Gray. As I understand this species it is 

 a summer bloomer continuing till frost, it seems to begin at a 

 little below 6000 feet altitude and continues to at least 8000 feet. 

 It is confined apparently to the mountains of south central 

 Colorado and New Mexico, being found as far west as Glenwood 

 Springs (Miss Eastwood). The stems are tall strigose and rough 

 and usually decidedly perennial, though it blooms the second 

 5'ear. It is at once recognized by the narrow leaves, very rough 

 pubescence, and much branched habit. The rays are glabrous. 



NOTES AND NEW SPECIES. 



^ Thelypodiiim elegans, n. sp. Biennial, two to five feet high, 

 erect, slender, simple, or branched at the base often; glabrous 

 except racemes and stems, at least the lower ones and rarely the 

 young pods sparsely pubescent with long tangled wool; lowest 



