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flowers linear, ovuliferous, but manifestly sterile. Mature fruit not 

 seen. Palea? of the receptacle between the ray and disk-flowers linear, 

 unconnected. An interesting congener of the original Anisocarpus of 

 Nuttall, — a genus which, thus supplemented, may fairly be kept distinct 

 from Madaria. 



Madaria elegans, DC, var. depauperata : spithamaea, gracil- 

 lima ; foliis ut in var. corymbosa eglandulosis ; ligulis 2 - 4 ; fl. disci 

 circ. 12. — Open woods on Mono Trail, 9,000 feet, Bolander. All the 

 known forms of Madaria are manifestly of one species ; the present 

 is remarkable for its diminutive size and a corresponding reduction in 

 the number as well as the size of the flowers. 



Artemisia Parryi : Abrotanum, glaberrima; caule simplici (spi- 

 thamaeo ad subpedalem) e radice perenni folioso ; foliis 2 - 3-pinnati- 

 partitis, pinnis 5 — 9 confertis, segmentis linearibus acutis; panicula 

 racemosa polycephalo ; capitulis nutantibus ; involucri squamis ovatis 

 obtusisimis margine scarioso atro-fusco ; floribus marginalibus foemineis 

 paucis, caeteris fertilibus; corollis glaberrimis. — Huefano Mountains, 

 New Mexico, Dr. C. C. Parry, Sept. 18G7. Heads nearly 3 lines 

 in diameter: segments of the leaves crowded, 3 to 5 lines long. 



Cacalia Nardosmia : laxe floccoso-lanata ; caule pedali 1-2- 

 foliato apice subracemoso-5 - 7-eephalo ; foliis plerisque raclicalibus 

 reniformi-rotundatis 5 - 9-fidis, lobis grosse inciso- vel sinuato-dentatis 

 nunc sublobatis ; capitulis circa 50-floris ; involucri ecalyculati squamis 

 16-20 lanceolatis acuminalis disco parum brevioribus; floribus cerinis ; 

 styli ramis obtusiusculis nudis ; pappo albo rigidiusculo. — In open 

 pine woods, near the Geysers in Sonoma Co., on high ridges along Eel 

 River, Mendocino Co., and in similar situations in Humboldt Co., 

 April and May, Bolander. The foliage of this interesting plant strik- 

 ingly resembles that of Nardosmia palmata. Heads almost an inch in 

 diameter, short-peduncled, showy : the " flowers of the color of yellow 

 beeswax, rather vivid, and with the odor of honey or beeswax." Not- 

 withstanding the yellow hue, I refer the plant to Cacalia. The flowers 

 are all alike and perfect : the style is of the Senecionoid sort ; its 

 branches narrowly linear, flat on the inner, slightly convex on the 

 outer face, which is minutely and uniformly upwardly scabrous 

 throughout ; the inner face bearing strong stigmatic lines which 

 vanish gradually as they run together nearly at the apex, where, 

 however, there is no short cone, nor ring of minute hairs, nor indeed 

 any vestige of appendage. A few plants with a somewhat similar style 

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