﻿Wooton: New Plants from New Mexico 459 



mm. broad, sessile and somewhat clasping, obtuse, with minute 

 hispidulous teeth along the margin, apex tipped with a short stiff 

 hair : heads numerous, terminating short branches, 7-10 mm. 

 high ; involucral bracts fleshy, imbricated in about three rows, 

 oblanceolate, 3-7 mm. long, 1 mm. or less broad, acute, the inner 

 tinged purple at the tips ; receptacle naked, alveolate : flowers 

 numerous, rays fertile, in two or three rows, narrowly linear, 

 inconspicuous, only exceeding the pappus by about 1 mm., 

 purple (?) ; disk flowers narrowly tubular, expanded slightly at 

 the top into a campanulate throat, the whole corolla shorter than 

 and included in the sordid to tawny pappus : akenes 1-2 mm. 

 long, slightly angled, narrowly turbinate, appressed-pubescent ; 

 pappus of numerous capillary, minutely scabrous bristles, about 

 6 mm. long. 



First collected near the Pueblo Indian village of Zuni, in west- 

 ern New Mexico, by Dr. S. W. Woodhouse, in September, 1851. 



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Bigelow, in September, 1853. In the reports of both the above 

 collections, Dr. Torrey referred the plant to Aster angiistatiis 

 (Nutt.) T. & G. I have recently received specimens of the same 

 plant collected by President C. L. Herrick, of the University of 

 New Mexico, in the fall of 1 894 at Albuquerque, New Mexico. 



Our plant is most nearly related to Aster frondosus (Nutt.) T. 

 & G., and is included in that by Dr. Gray in the Synoptical Flora. 

 It is easily separated from that species by its decumbent habit, 

 smaller size, smaller and less crowded heads and smaller, more 

 pubescent leaves. 



Pacif. R. R. Rept. 4 : 97. 1856. 



