CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY NO. 15 71 



Leonard in his revision of Scutellaria, p. 732, under S. antirrhin- 

 oides quotes specImcDS of mine from Prattvillc, CaL, '*in 1879." I never 

 was in rrattville till 1S97, and only once then. So the reference is 

 v;rong. This doublless is a clerical error, somewhat different from Pay- 

 son' error in quoting a specimen of Thelypondium of mine from Mam- 

 moth Hot Springs Wyoming, a place that I never was 'in in my life. 

 I collected, often at 'Mammoth, Utah, 79 miles west of south froi.i 

 Salt Lake City, but the "Jones" he mentions must 'have been W. W. 

 Jones, no relation of mine. 



NOTES ON CULTIVATED COSMOS. 



About 1920 I besan to otow D cable Cosmos for the purpose of 



creating a new strain. That year among several hundred plants I had 

 two half-double ones and one \Yith no-.vers'all double and the internal 

 ones as long as the outer ones. They bloomed so late that no rnattirc 

 seed was obtainable at Salt Lake before a heavy snowfall followed by 

 a hard freeze killed all, the seed I did save di-d not grow. 



In the spring of 1924 I bought of Frasc-r at Pasadena a pnck^t oi 

 guaranteed seed, 90% pure double. Out of this I got about 10 half 

 double ones and two all double ones which are now in full bloom. Oct. 

 16, 1924. Among these are certain sports with no rays at all, also pro- 

 liferous heads which I will describe. The outer involucre has 8 Imear- 



gular bracts about H inch long, united below into a flnt di«k 1 



cm. wide. Just inside of this are 8 inner bracts wliicn are noi so grecu 

 as the otliers, more hyaline, short-oblong and with triangular tip, and 

 about 1 cm. long. These subtend the rays. The rays have stalks from 

 1 to 2 cm. long which are flattened a little toward the scales but are 

 green and petiole-like. Some of these have two bracts near the base. 

 others have knot-like projects a little below the flower as if rudiments 

 of scales. There is no sign of ovary on the rays. At tlie top ot the 

 ray-petiole is the flat blade wliich does not differ from the noi-mal one. 



.,'_„.! XT.- i._.- _r *i-: : „^^fV,^^ efmiMaf chnrt stalk about 6 cm. long 



Occasionally there 

 and 6 cm. long, 



green and 



is a ligule-like white bract corresponding to a corolla ana o cm. lon^ 

 but mostly there is nothing to represent fte corolla. The heads mo.tly 

 liave less bracts but shaped alike. These doubUess will bear fruit. 1 he 

 disk floers are similar but stalks 2-5 cm. long, surmounted by a b IJ 

 shaped corolla about 4 mm. long and white, this is subtended by - 

 Hgulate white bracts longer than the corolla. The stamens seem to he 

 free and with rather long filaments. Then comes a head lihe the ra>j 

 liead but not oblately flattened as they are, and like them %vifliout ray. 

 Peucephyllum Schottii Gray. This poor shrub has been a W as 

 badly mishandled as anything could be. It was at first T^nd tyS^hott 

 in Sonora and the genus erected by Gray in ^e Mexican Boundaiy Rep. 

 page 74.^ Then in his notes peli-inary to the Synoptic.1^^^^^^^^ 



genus 



blunder . . 



[ated. Then in the Syn. Tl 



