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A new Ameriran Cynaroid Composite, by Daniel C. Ea 



ton. — Saussurea Americana, n. sp — Sparingly arachnoid pubes- 

 cent, at length nearly smooth: stems two to three feet high, leafy : 

 leaves 3 to 5 inches long, thin, broadly triangular-lanceolate, ab- 

 ruptly narrowed to a very short winged petiole, the lower ones sharp- 

 ly and coarsely toothed, the upper ones less toothed and gradually 

 more truly lanceolate; heads 5 to 20 in a terminal corymb; involu- 

 cres cylindrical-bell-shaped, 6 to 8 lines long, scales appressed, un- 

 armed, webby-pubescent, the margins dark-colored ; receptacle flat, 

 naked; flowers about 15 in a head, one half longer than the involu- 

 cre; achenia smooth; pappus exceeding the tube of the corolla, the 

 inner bristles densely plumose, the outer gradually shorter and less 

 plumose or merely scabrous; anther-tails ending in a fringe of slender 

 hairs. 



Mountains of Union Co., Oregon (7000 ft. eiev ), W. C. Cusick, 

 1877. Cimcoe Mts., Washington Terr. T. J. Howell, Sept., 1880. 



This fine species of Saussurea has at first siuht something the look 

 of a Vernonia, but the plumose pappus will at once distinguish it. .S". 

 alpina, of Northern Europe and Asij, occurs in British America, but 

 is much lower than this species, is more tomentose. and has the leaves 

 less toothed, longer petioled, and none of iheni so clearly triangular. 

 .S'. grandifolia. Max., from the Amoor country, has a tall stem and tri- 

 angular leaves, but it has also a densely chaffy receptacle, and belongs 

 to a different section of the genus Since the present is the only 

 known exclusively American species of the genus, which is chiefly 

 North Asiatic, the name here chosen is not inappropriate.— Ar?<.' Ha- 

 ven, Sept. JO, 1881. 



