CATALOGUE. 
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rather obtuse, foliaceous, the inner lanceolate, acute ; rays about 15, nearly 
2' long, 3-5" wide ; pappus unequally 3-8-toothed, one or two teeth often 
awned. — A coarse, rank-smelling plant ; the root somewhat fleshy, and said 
to be eaten by the Indians. Rocky Mountains of Washington Territory, to 
Colorado, (Parry.) Havallah range to the Wahsatch, in rich soil on the hill 
sides, abundant ; 4,500-8,000 feet elcYation ; June, July. (594.) 
Wyethia mollis, Grray. Proc. Amer. Acad. 6. 544. Woolly-tomcntose, 
becoming smoothish ; stems 1—2° high, bearing 1-3 heads ; leaves entire, 
broadly oblong or oval, the uppermost ovate and sessile, lower caidine and 
radical petioled, very large, 9-12' long, 3-5' broad ; involucre V broad, 
white-woolly, the outer scales oblong-ovate, slightly exceeding the disk ; 
rays 10-12, 12-15" long, 3-4" broad ; aclienia pubescent, linear ; pappus 
with 2-3 long stout awns. — California, (Brewer ! and Bolander ! ;) Carson 
City, Nevada, (Anderson ! ;) Mount Davidson, (Bloomer !) 
Balsamoerhiza ^ HooKERT, Nutt. Canescent or somewhat silky with 
soft short appressed hairs ; radical leaves ovate-lanceolate in outline, 2-3-}>in- 
natifid with narrow segments ; scapes several, 6-10' high, with a pair of entire 
or pinnatifid bracts near the base ; heads solitary, 2-2 ^ broad ; involucral 
scales very numerous, lanceolate, acute ; rays 12-18, 2-4-toothed at the 
end. — Plains of Washington Territory and Oregon; near Carson City, 
(Anderson, Bloomer.) Foot-hills of the Virginia and Trinity Mountains, 
Nevada ; 5-6,500 feet elevation ; April, May. (595.) 
Balsamoerhiza hirsuta, Nutt. Scabrous-hirsute ; radical leaves 8-10' 
long, on petioles half as long and white-woolly at the dilated base, oblong- 
lanceolate in outline, pinnately cleft into numerous oblong-lanceoiate or some- 
what cuneate and incised segments ; scapes about 1° high, monocephalous, 
bearing near the base a pair of nearly or quite entire petioled linear-lanceo- 
late bracts ; heads scarcely 2' broad ; scales of the involucre lanceolate ; 
chaff of the receptacle much shorter than the flowers. — Oregon, and in the 
1 BALSAMORRHIZA, Hook. Heads inany-llowerod, rjuliato ; tli<> rays lar^v, pisCillato, fertile; 
disk-flowers numerous, perfect, tubular, 5-tooth(Hl. Scales of Uie campanulatc invuliK rr iniUi iratc«l in 
3-4 or more rows, the outer foliaceous, as louy; as the disk, iiiuer ones more ri,u;i(l and passing- into the 
rigid and acute coucave chatf of the nearly ih'.t receptacle. Branches of the style of thti disk-flowers 
elongated, filiform, very hispid, of the ray one-half smaller, and nearly or ([uite smooth. Aehenia oblong, 
quadrangular and striated, or those of the ray flattened ; pappus none. — Coarse perennial herb.s, with 
very large roots full of a balsamic resin, ample entire or jiiunately lobed radical leavi--. :in(l steins 
high, bearing 1-3 sunflower-like heads and a few small leaves or bracts. Natives <.!'^\■t^■-ll■ru North 
America. In this genus and in the last, the rays often produce two or three abortive- stamens ; the .same 
thing occurs in many other genera, 
