458 MEMOIRS OF THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN, 



* Agoseris Leontodon pygmaea. 



Cinereous, as in the preceding variety, but very low, only 3-6 cm. 

 high; head small, turbinate; involucre more or less purplish, of 

 10-15 lanceolate bracts; corollas more or less tinged with rose; 

 leaves narrow and often entire, linear. 



Among rocks, at an altitude of 3000 m. 



Montana: Old Hollowtop, near Pony, July 9, 1897, Rydbej-g & 

 Bessey^ 5288. 



* Agoseris villosa. 



Stem stout, about 2 dm. high, densely villous when young, glabrate 

 in age ; leaves very villous-pubescent, about i dm. long, broadly 

 lanceolate, entire, or laciniately toothed, rather thick; heads 2-2.5 

 cm. high and fully as wide, hemispheric; involucre densely villous, 

 the outer bracts ovate or oblong, the inner lanceolate ; achenes, in- 

 cluding the beak, which is not very strongly striate, about i cm. 

 long, brown. 



Most resembles A. piimila, but is easily distinguished by the 

 pubescence. 



Montana: Helena, 1891, F. D. Kelsey (in the herbarium of 

 Columbia University; type); Basin, 1892 (in the herbarium of Mon- 

 tana College of Agriculture). 



* Agoseris altissiraa. 



Stem sparingly villous, 5-7 dm. high : leaves 15-25 cm. long, 

 linear-oblanceolate, entire, sparingly beset with villous hairs, espe- 

 cially on the margin; head 3 cm. high and the disk 2.5 cm. in 

 diameter; bracts denselv pilose, more or less brownish in color, the 

 outer broadly oblong, the inner lanceolate; ligules 2.5 cm. long, at 

 first yellow, turning pinkish ; achenes, as well as the short beak, 

 glabrous, striate. 



Apparently nearest related to A. scorzoneraefolia^ but taller and 

 rather with the habit of the other section of the genus. 



A rare plant ; found on a creek-bank, at an altitude of a little 

 over 2000 m. 



Montana: Jack Creek, July 14, 1897, Rydberg & Bessey, 528g. 



• Agoseris carnea. 



Simple, or slightly branched at the base, glabrous except the upper 

 part of the scape and involucre ; leaves oblanceolate, 7-20 cm. long, 

 entire or rarel}^ with a few small teeth, dark green, acute; scape sel- 

 dom over I dm. high, rarely much exceeding the leaves, often 

 shorter, densely villous above, especially just below the head, which 

 is turbinate and about 15 mm. high ; bracts subequal, linear or linear- 



