22 CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY 
short flowers. Rays many, yellow, fully half an inch long. The 
akenes truncate, smooth, quadrangular, slightly larger above. 
. Sp. 
No. 29411, on the Sabino river Mex., 80 miles west of Laredo 
Tex., March 26 1932. Plants growing in tufts about3 ft, high 
and erect but with many spreading branches above. Whole plant 
ing and flat hairs. Branches and stema equally hairy. Plants 
throughout appearing as if glutinous, Stems ending in small 
clusters of few heads on short and filiform peduncles. Bracts lan- 
_ ceolate and acuminate into needle-like tips, rather imbricated and 
passing into those on the stems. Heads not pendulous, 6-8 mm. 
long, white flowered, less than 10-flowered. Akenes 5-angled, 
black, slightly pilose, about 4-5 mm. long. Pappus white and 
sparse. Growing in the woods. This has the general appearance 
of B. grandiflora but leaves not at all acuminate, and heads smal- 
ler. Dedicated to Mr. Shiner, an enthusiastic botanist of Laredo 
who accompanied me on the trip and also enabled meto get many 
rare plants in the region. 
leaves ovate , 2-3 inches long, short-acuminate, the lower ones 
inclined to be linear-acuminate from a broad base, Flowers few, 
ina coi umbel, about half an inch long. with narrowly ellipsi- 
pals 
Rhus Florita n. sp. 
Florita mts. New Mex. Sept. 7 1903, Jones, No. 86113 Pomona 
Herb. Leaflets linear, apiculate to barely acute, smooth, sessile, 
he the rachis conspicuously winged. Evidently near to R. co- 
pallina. 
_ In the following descriptions of mostly Mexican plants, for 
saving space details of locations are omitted and’ given here below 
as follows: Cabo is San Luis del Cabo, 14 miles east of cape St. 
Lucas Lower California, Sept. 14 and 15 1930. 
