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_corky nerve present, rays many, leaf segments only acutish, 
just like the Susanville material with large fruit. Carson City 
and when mature would be more. Aurum Nevada materials, 
cited by Rose as L. multifida, were in flower and with the same 
blunt segments less than a line wide and 4-8” long, fruit gath- 
ered later from the same plants ranges from 10-14 mm. long, 
elliptical, concave, with raised lateral nerve, oil tubes present, 
rays rather many. Rose cites my No. 3878 referred to above as 
L. multifida. The Ruby Hill Nevada material cited by Rose 
gathered alongside of the others have the fruit 18 mm. long, 
but identical otherwise. Now all these citations show con- 
clusively that neither Mr. Rose nor any other person can make 
two distainct species out of this material as it is impossible to 
get any character that amounts to anything specifically. 
Townsendia mensana n sp. Densely c.espitose, perennial, 
with heads sessile among the rosulate leaves,the mats 2-4’ wide. 
Ashy throughout. Leaves linear-spatulate, 6-12” long, thick, 
acute. Heads 4’ long and wide with rays 14” wide and about 
with broad and hyaline margins lacerate. Pappus of ray se- 
tose and about twice the width of the akene; pappus of the 
ers. Akenes with conspicuously thickened and callous edges. 
This belongs to the Fendleri section: Benches of the Uintas 
rom 6000-7500° alt. at Theodore Utah. I also refer material 
here from Silver City Utah April 4, 1896 and Mercur Utah 
June 6 1896 and McIntyre’s ranch Utah May 18 1891. 
oe Townsendia incana var. prolixa n. var. Winter annual 
with slender tap root. Root leaves 1%-3’ long, on long peti- 
oles, obovate-spatulate to broadly oblanceolate, sparsely pu- 
bescent ; stem leaves oblanceolate, 1-154” long, triangular-acute, 
_with short and broad petiole. Heads on short peduncles 4-3” 
long, which have 1-3 leaves, the upper one being either invo- 
