a6 CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN FOTANY 
. Bebbia.filifolia n. sp.. No. 27783, Cayuca rench, Oct. 
23 1930. A tall shrub, not spinose, with filiform leaves, 3-5-parted 
and 3-4 inches long. Involucral leaves cval, Jacerate, 2-5 mm. 
jong, only the innermost liuear and acutish. Heads short-pedun- 
cled, Branches many, as in Bigelovia, and shrubby below. 
Elephantopus spicatus is the correct name for my No 23346 
of my 1928 collection. 
} ia coriscea n. sp., Orendain, Nov. 28 1930. On 
prairies. Plants coarse, 3-4 ft. high and erect from a thick root. 
Leaves rosulate, very, thick, leathery, venose, smooth, taciniat ly 
hed ‘ i 
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rounded sinus or cordate, the lower pair of lobes. with 4-6 parallel 
nerves, inclined to be erect on petioles as Tong as the blades an 
long, abruptly tipped by a sharply and spinulosely cleft and linear 
end 1-2 incbes long which passes into similar spinulosely serrate 
outer bracts, m. Jong, e 
broadly elliptical, inclined to be lighter colored, faintly many- 
nerved, smooth, a little lacerateon the margins and with tips dis- 
sected into a tuft of hairs about as long as the white pappus, in 
2 rows. Ifeads fully 4 inch wide and high, very many f 
inear 8 almest plumose. It 
recalls the compass plant, Silphium laciniatuas . 
*xinenia microcephaia Humb. 27758 Orendain. 
Zexmenia Seemani Grav is my No. 234123 of my 1928 colleetion 
: ve, Leaves opposite. 
ovate-lanceolate, nearly sessile, 2-4 inches long, entire, or ver 
obscurely serrate, rugose beluw and apparently densely ‘pustulate 
above and minutely pubescent beneath: Stems low-winged on the 
low, 4 inch wide, nearly spherical, 
» tounded, very rough grad- 
] ate, slightly lacerate, yellowish 
i ~ ate, , rae te , 
thin inner bracts which in burn pass into the couduplicate, vari- 
ously lacerate scales subtending the black ekenes which are. obo- 
tel in a buy'hone - ; whic 
contracts abruptly te a raal neck 1 mn, taaies nnn tech 
into the asnal Helianthus flower. Coro'la puberuient. Siamer 
tube not black. Ray akenes not as Wintedas disk on = te 
tral appearsuee like Suphium perfaliatuim ee 
