Rydberg : Rocky Mountain flora 147 



Nuttall, however, did not publish it as CJirysopsis but as Inula, 

 Chrysopsis being only a subgeneric name. The Kevv Index cites 

 DC. Prod. (/. <:.) as the place of publication of the combination 

 Chrysopsis alba, but it appeared at least one year earlier in Nees's 

 Genera. In describing the genus Unainia, Dr. Greene stated : 

 "And. that the bristles of the pappus are visibly dilated at the tip 

 is a character, here for the first time noted." This appears to be 

 not quite the fact, for we find in the sectional description in Torrey 

 & Gray's Flora: "the longer bristles clavellate-thickened at the 

 apex;" and in Gray's Synoptical Flora : "pappus white, of rather 

 rigid bristles, longer ones manifestly clavellate at tip." The ex- 

 pressions used by these authors are even more characteristic than 

 Greene's description, for the pappus-bristles are by no means flat- 

 tened, as the word " dilated " usually implies. 



Unamia lutescens (Lindl.) Rydb. comb. nov. 

 Diplopappns albus f-i Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am 2 : 21. 1834. 

 Diplopappus hitescc)is\Ax\^\.\ DC. Prod. 5: 278. 1834. 

 Aster lutescens T. & G. Fl. N. Am. 2 : 160. 1841. 

 Aster ptarniicoidcs lutescens K. Gray, Syn. Fl. i^ : 199. 1888. 



The color of the rays, yellow or ochroleucous as it has been 

 described, is probably of little value specifically and may vary ; 

 but in the specimens seen the bracts are "very obtuse" as 

 described in Torrey & Gray's F'lora, the inner even rounded at 

 the apex and therefore different from those of the typical U. alba. 

 The range of this species seems to be more restricted than that of 

 U. alba, extending from Illinois and Wisconsin to Saskatchewan. 



Doellingeria pubens (Gray) Rydb. sp. nov. 

 Aster nmbellatus pubens A. Gray, Syn. Fl. i^ : 197. 1884. 



This I think specifically distinct from D. umbellata (Mill.) Nees. 



Machaeranthera angustifolia nom. nov. 

 Macliaeranthcra linearis Rydb. Mem. N. Y. Rot. Gard. I : 398. 

 1900. Not M. linearis Greene. 1897. 



Machaeranthera leptophylla s[). nov. 



Biennial, cespitose at the base ; stems slender, simple up to 

 the inflorescence, green, sparingly puberulent, 3-5 dm. high ; 



