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BOTANY. 
lection of 1862 seems to connect it with Var. serrulata. Mountains at the 
head of HumboWt River ; 6,500-7,000 feet elevation. (568.) 
Var. PUBERULA. {L. viscidijlora^ Var, y., T. & G., in part.) Branchlets, 
leaNcs, especially the lower surface, and outer involucral scales minutely 
scabrous-pubescent ; leaves narrow, 1-3-nerved. — California, and Western 
Nevada (Bloomer) to the Eocky Mountains. Near the Truckee and on the 
Hot Spring Mountains in Western Nevada, and in Bear River Canon, Uintas ; 
4,500-8,000 feet elevation. (569.) 
LiNOSYRis HowARDii, Parry. Proc. Amer. Acad., 6.541. ''Shrubby, 
6-18' liigb; younger branches white-woolly; leaves linear, one-nerved, from 
webby becoming smooth, the uppermost about as long as, or exceeding, 
the corymbose and crowded heads ; involucre cylindrical, 5-flow^ered, the 
scales rather loose, all of them finely acuminate ; tube of the pale-yellow 
corolla sparingly villous; achenia linear, pubescent." Gray. — Colorado, 
(Parry.) Var. Nevadensis, Grray. Proc. Amer. Acad., 6. 541. ''Leaves 
rather wider and broader, the apex cuspidate and mostly incurved ; lower 
ones sub-spatulatc-lincar ; involucral scales more webby, especially along the 
margins, and somewhat viscid." Gray. — California, (Brewer,) and Western 
Nevada, (Bloomer, Anderson.) West Humboldt Mountains ; 8,000 feet 
elevation; September, Plant a dense bush, about 2° high, (570.) 
Aplopappus^ Bloomeri, Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad., 6. 541. Shrubby, 
about 1° high ; l)ranches and leaves smooth ; the latter narrow linear- 
s[)atiilate, about V long and 2" broad, narrowed at the base, slightly apiculate, 
1-nerved or indistinctly 3-nerved, the uppermost passing into the involucral 
scales; heads in dense sub-paniculate clusters ; involucres campanulate, 
about 5" long, the scales loosely imbricated in 3-5 series, lanceolate, rigidly 
chartaceous with scarious ciliated margins, and the outer ones with lono-- 
' APLOPAPri'S, Cass. (Macrouema, Erkamerla, Stenottis, Isopappus, Aplopappus, Pijrrocoma and 
Vr'wmpnl)* of Tom-y and Gray's I'lom.) Heads few-iiiaiiy-flowercd ; ray-Howcrs :?-maiiy, pistillate, fertile; 
those of the disk tuhular, ]>i i t; rt . H^cncrally fi'i tih>. Iiivoliiere ( yliiidiical, tiuhinate, campanulate or 
liejuispherical ; the seah s iiuhi irated in few-several series, fiom liuejir-subnlate varying to Lroadly oval, 
with or without foliaeeons tins ; the (Miter ones s(nuetiines smallest, sometimes very large and leaf-like. 
Keeeptacle tlat, alveohite. Corolla of the disk funnel-shaped, or slightly dilated upwards, o-tootlied. 
Style of the disk-liowers Avith the hranehes ihvttencd, s(Mnetiini"s hroadly lanceolate, but more frequently 
rnueli elongated, the snhuhite hispid a]ipendages luueh longer than the stigmaiic portion, Aclienia 
oblong or liin>ar. mostly terete or turbinate, vilhmsor pubes. ent, rarely glabrous. Pappus simple, white 
or brownish, of copious mostly nuecinal s. abrous soniewluit rigid or soft eai>illary bristles.— Perennial 
iierbs or sulfruticose jdants. with entire or pinuately toothed or serrate leaves; the heads often large and 
solirary, bnt sometimrs smaller and eorynd)ose or somewhat panieled. Xativc of Western Korth America 
and parts of South America ; the lloweis always yellow, bnt showing great diversity in the size of the 
heads and in the rays, styles, pappus, etc. The few raykss species are not easily separated from Limsyria. 
