Bxish — The Genus Othake Raf. 177 



the upper much reduced, distinctly 3-nerved. Involucre 

 canipanulate, 6-12 mm. high, its bracts 5-10 mm. long, 

 linear, hispid or canescent, in two scries, the outer nearly 

 herbaceous, the inner thinner and with rose-colored tips. 

 Peduncles erect, stout, short, densely scabrous and somewhat 

 ghindular; ray -flowers none; disk-flowers numerous, perfect, 

 fertile, 5-parted nearly to the filiform tube, rose-colored; 

 achenes 5-7 mm. long and about 1 mm. thick, narrowly 

 obpyramidal, quadrangular, pubescent; pappus-scales <3-8, 

 short-ovate, obovate or spatulate, erose or fimbriate, very 

 short. — Sandy woods and prairies, Indian Territory to Texas 

 and Mexico. Spring, summer and autumn. 



Specimens examined: Indian Territory: Quauah's 

 Ranch, >SAe?cZort 197, July 25, 1891 (N). Texas: Laredo, 

 Beverchon 3657, March 26, 1903 (M) ; Mackenzie 7, August, 

 1899 (M); Peua Station, near Laredo, Havard, August, 

 1884 (N); Southwestern Texas, near Laredo, Palmer 642, 

 September. 1879, to October, 1880 (MN); Corpus Chri.sti 

 Bay, Nueces County, Ileller 1562, April 9 to 12, 1894 

 (MN); Nuecestown, Marlatt, April 27, 1896 (N); Millett, 

 Tre/ease, November 5, 1897 (M); Eagle Pass, Havard hi], 

 date of collection not given (N) ; Valley of the Rio Grande, 

 below Dona Ana, New Mexico, Mexican Boundary Survey 

 614, in part, two sheets of this collection, the smaller plant on 

 each sheet (N). Mexico: Monterey, PWn^Ze 1919, July 4, 

 1888 (N) ; Coahuila and Nuevo Leon States, Palmer 645, 

 February to October, 1880 (N) ; Tampico, Tamaulipas, 

 Pringle 6354, April 4, 1896 (M). 



4. Othake Hookerianum (T. & G.) Bush. 



Othake longifolium Raf. New Fl. Am. 74 (1836). (?) 



Palafoxia Texana Hook. Ic PI. (. 148 (1837), not of DC. Prodr. 5: 



125 (1836). 

 Palafoxia Eookeriana T. & G. Fl. N. A. 2:368 (1842). 

 Polypteris Hookeriana (T. & G.) Gray, Proc. Am. Acad, 19 :31 (1883). 



Stems stout, branched, hispid, glandular-pubescent and 

 viscid above, 2-6 dm. high. Leaf -blades linear-lanceolate, 

 entire, acute or acuminate, narrowed at the base, rough on 

 both sides, the upper alternate, the lower opposite and 



