﻿124 Greene: New Compositae from New Mexico 



transverse rugosities ; pappus white, of about I 5 bristles loosely 

 long-plumose from toward the base, the basal part naked and 

 scabrous and slightly thickened. 



Mesas near Las Cruces, July 2 (no. 482). A species that may 

 include much of the southern so-called Stephanomeria minor. 



Agoseris graminifolia. 



Perennial, i° high or less, glaucous, the foliage glabrous, but 

 scapes sparsely pilose below, woolly under the glabrous invo- 

 lucre : leaves all very narrowly linear, entire, acuminate : heads 

 i' high, narrow and few-flowered: bracts of the involucre in 

 about 3 series, ovate-lanceolate to linear-lanceolate : achenes 

 gradually narrowed to a beak shorter than the body ; pappus 

 white, rather coarse, hardly scabrous. [Plate 334.] 



At 7000 feet altitude in the White Mountains, in moist land, 

 August 13 (no. 513), in fruit only. 



Explanation of Plates. 



Plate 330, I and 2. Eriocarpum Wootonii Greene. I. A portion of a plant 

 half natural size. 2. I nvolucral bracts and flowers natural size. 3 and 4. Coleosanthus 

 ambigens Greene. 3. A portion of a plant half natural size. 4. Involucral bracts, 

 flower and achene natural size ; also achene X 2 - 



PLATE 331, I and 2. Senecio Wootonii Greene. I. Part of plant half natural >i/.e. 

 2. Involucral bract and ray flower natural size. 3 and 4. Eriocarpum serration 

 Greene. 3. A portion of a plant half natural size. 4. Ray-flower and achene natural 



size. 



PLATE 332, 1 and 2. Grindelia scabra Greene. I. A portion of a plant half 

 natural ^ize. 2. Involucral bract, ray flower and achene natural size. 3 and 4- &**%*' 

 ran frr mosissimus Greene. 3. A portion of a plant half natural size. 4. Involucral 

 bract, ray flower and achene natural size. 



PLATl \^ y 1 and 2. / otonia parviflora Greene. 1. Entire plant half natural 



2. I lead of flowers and achenes natural size. 3 and 4. Laphamia centum 



Greene. 3. Part of the plant natural size. 4. Involucral bract and flower natural size. 



PLATE 334, I and 2. Agoseris graminifolia Greene. I. A portion of a plant halt' 



natural st$e. 2. Achene natural size. 3 and 4. Tetradymia Jilifolia Greene. 3- 



imall branch of a plant half natural size. 4. Head, with one bract and three flower- 



removed, natural -i/e. 



size. 



