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Aplopappus Grkenei. Suffruticosus, pedalis, tenuiter viscoso- 

 puberulus, caeterum glaber ; caulibus usque ad capitulum subsolitarium 

 foliosis ; foliis spathulato-oblongis parvulis (lin. 6-10 longis 2-3 latis) ; 

 involucri subglandulosi bracteis aiigusto-lanceolatis acutis superne vel 

 apice tantum foliaceis et patentibus ; ligulis 3-7; fl. disci 13-16; styli 

 ramis Macronemce. — N. California, on the Scott Mountains of Siski- 

 you Co., E. L. Greene. Mountains of Union Co., Oregon, Cusick. 



Aplopappus mollis. Prjecedenti affinis, pube molli incana to- 

 mentosus ; involucri bracteis (intimis linearibus scariosis exceptis) 

 oblongis vel brevi-lanceolatis mucronatis, apice erecto foliaceo ; ligulis 

 3-0. — High mountains of Union Co., Oregon, with the preceding. 

 Cusick. 



SOLIDAGO is divided into three primary sections or subgenera, 

 viz. Virgaurea, Euthcania, and Chrysoma. The C/iri/sastrum section of 

 Torrey and Gray is reduced to a subsection of the first, and is made 

 to include S. petiolaris. 



S. BiGELOVii is a New Mexican species founded on S. petiolaris, 

 var., Gray in Bot. Mex. Bound. 79, collected by BIgelow, Wright, 

 and Parry, and placed next to S. Lindheimeriana of Scheele, which 

 was in PI. Lindh. referred to aS*. speciosa, var. rigidluscula. 



S. SPATHULATA, DC. is the S. spiciformis, Torr. &, Gray, an older 

 and better name. 



S. SPECTABiLis is the aS*. Guiradonis var. spectabilis of Eaton in Bot. 

 King ; but it and its relatives are of uncertain limitation. 



S. Chapmanii. S. odorce proxima, validior, rigidior ; caule su- 

 perne scabro-puberulo ; foliis brevibus oblongis vel ellipticis apice 

 obtuso vel rotundato, summis rotundatis. — Pine barrens of Florida, 

 Chapman (^S. odora of his Flora, in part), Dr. Garber. 



S. WuiGiiTir. Corgmbosce ? cinereo-puberula, scabrida ; foliis caulinis 

 oblongis seu lanccolato-ellipticis acutiusculis intogerrimis rigidiusculis 

 baud triiilinerviis (radicalibus ignotis) ; capitulis subcorymboso-glome- 

 ratis ; involucri bracteis lanceolatis acutiusculis, extimis puberulis ; 

 floribus radii 6-8, disci plus 20 ; acheniis pubesccntibus. S. petio- 

 laris, var., Gr;iy PI, Wright, i. 94. S. Californica, var., Rothrock, 

 in Wheeler Rep. vi. 145. — W. Texas to Arizona, Wright, Bigelow, 

 Rothrock. 



APHANOSTEPHUS, DC. This genus, first brought into its 

 present shape in Plantaj Wrightiamc, i. 93, has now live recognized 

 species, which are arranged and characterized thus : — 



