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soon glabrate, i -ribbed or indistincti}' 3-nbbed, generally distinctly 

 mucronate : flowering stems 1-1.5 dm. high, somewhat glanduli- 

 ferous above ; its leaves small and bractlike, oblanceolate or linear ; 

 heads 5—7 in a short raceme : fertile heads 7-8 mm. high and 

 6— J mm. in diameter ; its bracts imbricate in about 4 series, 

 slightly floccose, green at the base, purplish in the middle and 

 with a light brownish scarious margin above ; the outer short and 

 ovate ; the inner lanceolate, acute : pappus very slender, filiform, 

 dirty white ; sterile heads about 5 mm. high and about as broad ; 

 its bracts broadly oblong, more floccose, brown and with a broader 

 scarious margin of the same color as in the fertile head, obtuse or 

 truncate ; pappus only slightly broadened above, white. 



It is nearest related to A. raccniosa, but differs in the more co- 

 pious and more persistent tomentum, in the broader and brighter 

 colored bracts of the fertile head and the broad scarious margins 

 of those of the sterile one. 



Oregon: Olympic Mountains, 1895, C. V. /^//iV (fertile plant 

 in herbarium of Washington Experiment Station, Pullman) ; moun- 

 tains of northern Oregon, Wilkes Expedition (sterile plant in the 

 Torre)' herbarium). 



Aster mollis sp. nov. 



A strict perennial with a horizontal rootstock. Stem densely 

 villous, almost tomentose, or in age more glabrate, 4—8 dm. high, 

 simple below, with short flowering branches above ; leaves obovate 

 to oblanceolate, 5-10 cm. long, densely and softly grayish pu- 

 bescent on both sides, sessile, slightly clasping, and occasionall)^ a 

 little auricled at the base : heads terminating the short branches, 

 hemispherical ; disk about 1 5 mm. high and broad ; bracts 

 herbaceous, oblong, obtuse, villous-pubescent ; rays numerous, 

 bluish purple, about i cm. long and 2 mm. wide. 



This species reaches an elevation of 2200 m. 



Wyoming : Big-Horn Mountains, 1899, f. Tweedy, 202g (type). 



Washington: Pullman, 1893, C. K Piper, 160^. 



Townsendia Vreelandii sp. nov. 



A dark green biennial, branching near the base. Stems and 

 branches simple, erect; 1.5-4 dm. high, mostly erect, sparingly 

 villous. Leaves numerous, all oblanceolate, short-petioled, 

 glabrous, mucronate, 4—8 cm. long, 5—8 mm. wide : involucre 

 about 15 mm. high and 25-30 mm. broad: bracts lanceolate, 

 acuminate, scarious, light green with dark green center : rays 



