274 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [ APRIL 
Never has a plant come into my hands that was so difficult to place. 
Superficially it has one or two eupatoriaceous characters, but the real char- 
acters unite it to the Helianthoideae. Inadvertently overlooking Greene’s 
genus Bebbia, I applied to Dr. B. L. Robinson for assistance, writing him 
as follows: “This plant may get into the Helianthoideae. Here by a little 
amplification of characters it might be included in the Verbesineae or in the 
Madiae. If in the former, near Varilla; if in the latter, near Layia.” I 
mention this to show that to one to whom the plant was wholly unknown it 
appeared in such a way as to confirm exactly the views expressed by Greene 
in the diagnosis of the genus (Bull. Calif. Acad. 1:179). 
In regard to the elevation of Bebdia juncea aspera Greene (/. c.) to spe- 
cific rank, I believe that no one who will take the trouble to compare the 
description of the &. jumcea from Cedros Island, which furnished the type, 
with the full description of the inland forms will question their distinctness. 
The foregoing description was drawn from plants collected by Mr. Good- 
ding at Rioville, Nevada, May 6, 1902, no. 720. It is a low shrub 3-79" 
high, occurring on dry sandy hillsides. 
, Hymenopappus eriopoda, n. sp.—Perennial; the caudex decid- 
edly woody, multicipitous, forming a large dense tuft; stems 
single from each crown, simple, 0.5-1™ high, leafy for more 
than one-half the height, more or less lanate-pubescent, glabrate 
upward: leaves numerous, glabrate, some lanate pubescence on 
the petiole and rachis, bipinnately divided into filiform lobes 
rarely more than 0.5™™ broad; petiole and rachis flattened-semi- 
terete; the primary divisions 2-5°™ long; the secondary I-25 
root-leaves numerous, crowded on the crowns, their bases 
involved with the stem in a dense white pannose tomentum, 
including the petiole 15-20™ long; stem leaves 5—7, the upper- 
most merely pinnate: peduncles axillary, from the two or three 
uppermost leaves and from as many minute bracts, very slender, 
monocephalous, or developing 1 or 2 accessory heads on filiform 
pedicels, 1-34™ long, the lowest usually much elongated: heads 
about 12™™" high: involucre rusty-tomentose, shorter than the 
disk; its scales in 2 series, mostly oblong, or oblong-elliptic, 
obtuse, with scarious margin and tips, rarely purplish: corolla 
tube obscurely glandular-pubescent, very slender, about oe 
long, expanding into an equally long broadly tubular throat, 
which is three times as long as its lobes; akene 5™™ long, some- 
what enlarged upward, pubescent especially on the angles; pap- 
