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30 - 40, slender, purple. — A very distinct species, with the heads as large as in 

 A. Moranensis, 11. B. K. (to which probably belongs A. purpuratus, Nces), and 

 nearly as large as in A. flexuosus, not at all turbinate at the base; the scales 

 closely imbricated in numerous series. 



A. (Oxytkipolium) blepharophyllus (sp. nov.): surculoso-csespitosus, humilis, 

 glaber; foliis linearibus vel surculorum lineari-spathulatis eximie setoso-ciliatis, 

 ramorum brevissimis ; ramulis fastigiatis nionocephalis ; involucri tnrbinati squamis 

 pluriserialibus oblongis acutis chartaceis ; ligulis 10-14 oblongis exsertis ; acheniis 

 sericeis. — Las Playas Springs, New Mexico, in subsaline soil; Oct. (1164.) — 

 « Plant forming large patches," the flowering stems a span high. Leaves, more 

 especially those of the surculose shoots, conspicuously fringed with strong white 

 bristles of a length nearly equal to the breadth of the leaf, and the apex tipped 

 with a similar bristle ; the upper cauline and rameal only one or two lines long, 

 and soon reduced to subulate bracts less fringed of naked. Heads 3 lines long ; 

 the one-nerved scales of the involucre with minutely scarious and ciliolate margins. 



Erigeron macranthum, Nutt.; Gray, PI. Fendl.p. 67. Stony hills at the copper 

 mines, New Mexico ; Aug., Oct. (1165.) — The stems are hispid, more so than in 

 Fendler s No. 330. 



E. Bellidiastrum, Nutf. ; Gray, PL Fendl. |>. 67. Near El Paso 1 (locality not 

 recorded). 



E. MODESTDM, Gray, PL FeiulL p. 68, Sf PL Wright, p. 90. Prairies of Live Oak 

 Creek, &c. ; May. (1166.) 



E. DivERGENs, Torr. 8f Gray, FL 2. ;x 175; Gray, PL Wright, j). 91. Valleys of 

 the Pecos, Limpio, and llainwater Creek, in alluvial soil ; June : and sides of the 

 Organ Mountains. (1167.) Also on mountains at the copper mines. New Mexi- 

 co; Aug.: a still more flagelliform state (E. flagellare, Gray, PL FendL). (1168.) 



E. DivERGENS, var. ciNEREUM, Gray, PL Wright. L c. Mountains, around the 

 copper mines; Oct: a late, much-branched state. (1169.) Hills near El Paso; 

 March, April: the early, normal form. (1398.) 



E. (Polyactidium) delphij<if()lr;m, Willd. Hort. BeroL t. 90. Polyactidium 

 delphinifolium, DC. Prodr. 5. p. 282. On mountains at the copper mines, common; 

 Aug. -Oct. (1170.) 



E. (CaiMOTUs) eriophyllum (sp. nov.) : annuum ? floccoso-lanatum ; canle erecto 

 superne paniculate, ramulis patentibus monocephalis ; foliis sessilibus, inferioribus 

 spathulatis vel oblanceolatis versus apicem dentatis, superioribus linearibus intcger- 

 rimis; involucri squamis glabratis 3 - 4-seriatis, exterioribus brevioribus ; ligulis 

 pluriserialibus purpurascentibus pappum simplicem baud superantibus ; acheniis 

 plano-compressis hirtellis margine crasso cinctis. — On the Sonoita, near Deserted 

 Rancho, Sonora ; Sept. — Stem a foot or more in height. Leaves 12 to 16 lines 

 long, the white and floccose wool at length nearly deciduous from the upper sur- 

 face. Heads 4 lines long, hemispherical, many-flowered. Ligules narrowly linear. 

 Achenia all fertile, flat, obovate, with a small terminal areola. Pappus entirely 

 simple and capillary, rather longer than the disk-flowers, white, deciduous, the 

 bristles slightly connected at the base. — This plant much resembles the figure of 



PL. WR. 11. 



