CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY 81 
Dysodia fimbriata n. sp. No 27784 La Barranea, 
Guadaijara Nov, 16 1930, This would come ander to pro- 
posed genus Clomenocoma Cass. Erect and tufted from a peren- 
nial root, conspicuously wnagemrete branched above, striately an- 
le eaves sessile, green, 1-2 inches long, fimbriately pinnate 
almost to midrib with neuits linear segments rather broader above 
and very deeply cut and ending in long and flexible sete or hairs, 
Stems brauching at tips into several filiform ped re 3-5 inches 
long, and bracted and ending in single heads. Involucres 1 em 
long, obconic, of nearly distinct and dotted scales piv: not glan- 
di lsr-dotted) and several accessory outer and green bracts dissec- 
ted into long sete. Rays fertile, spi -yellow, 1 cm, long, oval. 
A\e ves linear, finely 15-ril b»d, about smooth, truncate at tip, with 
about 5 inner pappus scales dismeched: nearly wl base into 5 or 
more unequal setw, and with 5 spatulate kiko cales mm. long 
Pappus much as in ooperi but the wieite scales absent in 
ere General aspect of plant re of Aylepnts spinulosus, 
Po ney seco rotunditolium n. sp., No. 27777a, 
Staudt 9 27 1930. Whole plant green, rather shrubby below 
4 ft. high, erest, branching from the upper axils, with the slen- 
re branches divided and about 6 inches long and ending i in sub- 
uimbellate clusters of 3-10 heads on filiform and minutely bracted 
pedicels 1-2 em, long. Heads rather cuneate, 1-1,5 cm long, the 
5-6 scales about 1 cm. long and each with 2-3 narrowly oblong 
and large glands. Akenes about 6 mm, long, linear but some ta- 
pered above, pubescent, faintly yellow-ribbed. Pappus plumose, 
nearly as jong as akene, Leavea oval, 2 inches Jong, venose, pat- 
mately veined below, smooth, upper ones velisea and inclined to 
obovate and ae Lem. long. Inflorescence conspicuously lrafy 
On prairies, 
orophyllu pager Ser aRC¢ n. sp. No. 27777, Ls Barramea 
Guadalajara, Nov, 21 1930, Anerect shrub about 5 ft, bigh, 
corymbosely ordi pitie smooth thronghont except the up 
wardly pilose akenea. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic cal, obtusish en- 
tire, 1-2 inches long by 1.5 wide, on stout petioles a fifth as lang 
us bi ades, somewhat reduced above, but never to bracts. Heads 
few at the ends of filiform final brunchea, in cymes, Pedune'es } 
inch long, filiform and with knots at the envis, the heads eurly de- 
ciduous. Heads 12-14 mm. long and 2 mm, wide, few-flowered. 
Akenes black, finaly striate, very shortly hairy. obscurely contrac- 
ted at very tip. Pappus a little over half as long as akene,  sor- 
id, scabrous, Rarely the lower leaves packers 1 inch wide, There 
several allied species but none very near. This has the general 
character of the above bat pappus only scabrous, leaves.quite «dif- 
ferent, and flowers of Lhat are greenish; the sbracts -of :the twa 
ahave similar ojl- glands 
