CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY = 77 
Verbesina crocata . Ido not recall the author of this name 
ara 
ing sliruo, 6-3 ft. high with the habit of our Californian Nemoph- 
and acuminate, with broad aud winged petioles 1-2 cm. long; and 
k. 
akenes with 2 awns and no scales. Chaff of receryticle flattish and 
not embracing the akenes.’ Disk flowers yellow, and their akenes 
linear and wingless, Involucral sc. 1:3 man} 
rough. closely appressed. Flowers many in the heads. 
rbesina pustulata n. sp. No. 27711, The Laguna 
Laguna mts., Sept. 22 1940. A tall herb 3-4 ft. high, growing 
in ciumps. Whole plant even to the bracts covered with yellow 
pustules which often end in very slender and crisp bairs, particn- 
larly on the under side of the leaves. Leaves ovate, acumivate. 
about 3 inches long, truncate below, winged on the petiole which 
ix 6 mm. long and stout. Leaves velvety below, very veiny, ver 
closely and sharply serrate with teeth 1 mm. long. Tleads termi. 
nal in compound cymes on filiform peduncles. Bracts seft, nur. 
rowly oblong, green but whitened by pubescence, barely act te, 
thin, Akenes oblong-obovate, very thinly winged above and end- 
ing in a lacerate crown and with 1-2 stout awns 2 mn long. 
Crown varying from none or to a ring or a real a d terminal wing 
Akenes spirsely pubescent, 
Sclerocarpus Triuntonis n. sp. No. 27717, Triunfe 
Ot. 619.0. A weakly erect annual, branching above, with Oppo- 
but vellow-tipped. The plant has the general appearance of Ver. 
kina enc slioides, Sclerocarpus spatulatus Rose Cont. Nat. Herl, 
Vol. 1105 is so poorly described that it cannot be identified. 
