﻿120 Greene: New Compositae from New Mexico 



i' long or more, from spatulate-oblong to linear-oblong, obtuse, 

 closely and evenly spinulose-serrate : heads rather large, soli- 

 tary at the ends of the branchlets : involucre somewhat hemi- 



spherical, nearly VJ broad, its coriaceous herbaceous-tipped 



bracts closely imbricated in many series : rays many, rose-colored 

 on lower side, white on upper : achenes silky-pubescent, scarcely 

 compressed, indistinctly angled : pappus of unequal coarse and 

 rather rigid bristles which are merely scabrous, the longest little 

 longer than the achene. [Plate 331.] 



White Mountains, at 6800 feet, July 30 (no. 251). A fine 

 and strongly characterized new species, more closely resemb- 

 ling a Grindclia than is the type of the genus, E. grindcloides ; 

 perhaps nearly related to the annual E. mbiginosum ; also un- 



flowers. 



?phalum 



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Eriocarpum Wootonii. 



Perennial, diffusely branched and depressed, the branches 8'-io' 

 long, canescent with a soft loose somewhat cottony pubescence, 

 not glandular : leaves small and narrow, of a linear rachis and sev- 

 eral rather remote pairs of short divaricate spinulose-tipped lobes : 

 heads terminating numerous short leafy branchlets : involucre 

 broad, its bracts with cottony-tomentulose green tips : rays deep 

 yellow. [Plate 330.] 



On the White Mountains, at 6500 feet elevation ; the speci- 

 al flower Aug. 19 (no. 518). Species with habit of 



mens 



E. spi)udosum, f< 

 wholly peculiar. 



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Grindelia scabra. 



Biennial, 2° high, the rather slender reddish stem and 

 branches and thin foliage scabrous-pubescent : lowest leaves ob- 

 lanceolate, petiolate, those of the branches oblong, sessile by a 

 broader and somewhat clasping base : all sharply but not deeply 

 spinulose-serrate : hemispherical involucre of very numerous bracts, 



alternate 



golden yellow : achenes very small, somewhat compressed-pvri- 

 form. smooth, or with two or more striae, destitute of terminal 

 crown or teeth, and with but a minute areola: bristles of pappus 2 



or 3, scabrous-serrulate on the margins below. [Plate 332.] 



White Mountains at 6300 feet, August 21 (nos. 224, 372). 



