164 COMPOSITE. Aphanostephus. 



ramosissima, Gray, PI. Fendl. 71, & PI. Liudh. ii. 220. — Rocky and .sandy prairies, Texas. 

 (Adjacent Mex.) 

 A. humilis, Gray, 1. c. Low and diffuse, soft-pubescent and cinereous : leaves rarely entire, 

 often pinnatifid: heads on slender peduncles: rays 3 or 4 lines long: akenes shorter and 

 more distinctly costate-angulate. — Leucopsidium humile, Bentli. PI. Hartw. 18. Egletes 

 humilis, Gray, PI. Fendl. 71. — Southern and western borders of Texas, Wright, Palmer (but 

 his plant, no. 494, doubtful), Reverchon. (Mex.) 



A. RAMOSus, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xvi. 90 (Keerlia ramosa, DC.), Mexico, Keeri, is im- 

 perfectly known. 



* * Pappus more conspicuous and dentate or laciiiiate: base of the corolla-tube in age promi- 

 ncnfly thickened and indurated, long persistent on the strongly angulate-costate akcne. 

 A. Arkansanus, Gray, 1. c. Diffuse, a foot higli, cinereous-pubescent : leaves from 

 ohlong-spatulate to broadly lanceolate ; lower often toothed or sinulate-lobed : heads larger : 

 rays commonly half -inch long : outer akenes usually suberose-angled or ribbed : pappus 

 mostly obtusely 4-5-lobed or pluridentate. — Leucopsidium Arkansanum, DC. Prodr. vi. 43. 

 Keerlia skirrohasis, DC. Prodr. v. 310 ; Deless. Ic. iv. t. 18; Hook. Ic. t. 240. Egletes Arknn- 

 Sana, Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. vii. 394; Torr. & Gray, PI. ii. 411. — Plains of Arkansas, 

 Kansas, and Texas ; first coll. by Berlandier. 



Var. Hallii, Gray, 1. c. Somewhat smaller : leaves varying from entire to pinnately 

 parted : crown of the pappus more conspicuous, deeply cleft into 4 or 5 uueciual subulate- 

 acuminate lobes ! — Texas, E. Hall (no. 303, 304), P(dmer. 



37. G-REENELIjA, Gray. {liev. Echvard Lee Greene, the discoverer.) 

 — Slender and low winter annuals ; the typical species (analogous to Gutierrezia) 

 diffuse and conspicuously radiate ; an ambiguous species rayless, and perhaps not 

 truly congeneric. — Proc. Am. Acad. xvi. 81. 



G. Arizonica Gray, I.e. Smooth and glabrous, diffusely branched from the base : leaves 

 small (inch or less long), entire, veinless, sessile, alternate ; radical ones lanceolate or ob- 

 scurely spatulate, hispidulous-ciliolate ; cauline narrowly linear and gradually reduced to 

 subulate : heads solitary at summit of divergent filiform branchlets : involucre 2 or 3 lines 

 liigh and wide; bracts with a conspicuous subapical green spot: rays 10 to 16, oblong or 

 obovate, white : mature akenes densely white-villou-s, the hairs tipped with a capitellate 

 gland : border of the pappus-crown miUtisetulose-dissected. — Mesas of Arizona, Greene 

 (1877), Leinmon, Pringle. The root obviously not perennial. 



Gr. discoidea, Gray'. Stems or branches numerous from a jjrobahly monocarpic but lig- 

 nescent root, strict, very leafy : leaves all narrowly linear, acute; the lower (over an inch 

 long ) with obscurely ciliolate-scabrous margins : heads somewhat corymbose : involucre 

 barely 2 lines high ; the bracts more scarious and with indistinct green spot : rays nons : 

 ovaries glabrous : pappus plurideuticulatc. — Proc. Am. Acad. xix. 2. — S. Arizona, iu 

 Tanner's Caiion, Lemmon. 



38. KE:fiRLIA, Gray. (F. W. Keerl, a German traveller in Mexico.) — 

 Diffusely and slenderly branched Texan herbs, leafy-stemmed ; with small panicu- 

 late heads on almost capillary jieduncles, white or purple rays, and oblong entire 

 sessile leaves ; the style-appendages in one species much elongated (in the manner 

 of the preceding genus), and this has only sterile ovaries in the disk. — PI. Lindh. 

 ii. 220, & PL Wright, i. 92, not DC, whose genus of this name was founded on 

 two species of Aphanostephus and a Ji.anthocephalu'in, to which was added a syn- 

 onyme belonging to a Bellis. 



K. bellidifolia, Gray & Engelm. Annual, pubescent, effusely branched from near the 

 base, a span or two high ; when young with the habit of Bellis integrijhlia : lower leaves 

 obovate or spatulate ; uppermost somewhat linear : involucre only 2 lines long : rays 4 to 15, 

 blue : style-appendages in the disk-flowers short and very obtuse : akenes obovate-clavate 

 and moderately compressed. — Proc. Am. Acad. i. 47 ; PI. Lindh. 1. c. ; PI. Wright, 1. c. — 

 Fertile soil, Texas, Lindheimer, Wright. 



