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on both sides, sessile, clasping at the base : inflorescence ample ; 

 branches spreading, slender, closely pubescent, furnished with 

 many approximate bract-like scales : heads showy : involucres 

 turbinate, short before anthesis, elongated to I or 1.5 cm. at ma- 

 turity : bracts numerous, linear or nearly so, acute, erect or slightly 

 spreading, with narrow dark green tips, conspicuously decurrent 

 on the peduncles : rays 12-15, violet, nearly linear, about 1 cm. 

 long : achenes pubescent. 



In dry soil, Arkansas. Fall. 



Aster continaus is one of the more conspicuous species of the 

 genus. Its relationship is with Aster patens. Differences in 

 habit and foliage are much subornate to the very peculiar invo- 

 lucres. Up to about the time the rays expand these members are 

 turbinate, but after the rays expand and the head matures the 

 involucres become conspicuously obconic and greatly elongate. 

 The bracts of the involucre have often a conspicuously spiral ar- 

 rangement and gradually pass into those of the elongated pedun- 



cles. 



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near Texarkana, Arkansas, in September, 1898, no. 4283. 



III. THE PAR0NYGHIACEOU3 GENUS FORCIPELLA. 

 Unfortunately the name Forcipella which I lately associated 

 with a genus of Paronychiaceae was used in the family 

 Acanthaceae* since the publication of the Kew Index and before 

 my adoption of it. This being the case, I cannot do better than 

 associate the name of the late Professor Lewis R. Gibbes, of 

 Charleston, South Carolina, the discoverer of such conspicuous 

 species as Aster mirabilis and Tsuga Caroliniana, and founder of 



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GIBBESIA. 



Gibbesia Rugelii (Chapm.). 

 Siphonychia Rugelii Chapm. Fl. S. States 47. 1 860. 

 Paronychia Rugelii Shuttl.; Chapm. Fl. S. States 47. As 



synonym, i860. 



Forcipella Rugelii Small, Bull. To rr. Club, 25: 1 5 0. 1898- 



* See Engler and Pttmtl, Nat PA. Fam. 4 ■ Abh. 3, b. 343- . 



t This herbarium is now incorporated in the herbarium of the New York Botamcal 



Card en. 



