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scabrous-denticulate; akenes sparsely hairy when mature, more 

 densely hairy when young, 2 to 3-nerved and mostly flat; bracts 

 many, linear, with narrow white margins, very acute, as long as 

 the flowers, in one series with a few outer shorter ones of vary- 

 ing length. This has the habit of E. filifolius and E. caespitosus, 

 and belongs to that section. What relation it bears to E. 

 Covillei Greene Erythea iii 20 cannot be determined from the 

 imperfect description of the latter. Hawthorne Nev. 5000 ft. alt. 

 on lava rocks in Big Indian Canyon, May 27, 1897. Also Lone 

 Pine, Inyo Co. Cal. on granite rocks, 4000 ft. alt. May 13, 1897. 

 Aster venustus Jones. Mr. Greene in his attempt at revis- 

 ion of Aster calls this a synonym of A. Parryi, evidently without 

 the least knowledge of the species, he having misinterpreted my 

 reference to it in Contributions vii. I was there comparing the 

 four species of the group, showing that A. venustus bears the 

 some relation to A. Parryi that A. Wrightii does to A. xylorhiza, 

 but expressing no opinion as to the validity of any one of the 

 four. 



Baileya nervosa n. sp. Annual, erect, many-stemmed, 

 stems sparingly branched, a foot or less high; root leaves rosu- 

 late, oblanceolate, on long margined petioles, entire to obtusely 

 3-lobed, 2 to 3 inches long, stem leaves with shorter or no petioles, 

 similarly lobed, and lobes oblong, rounded, crenately and 

 sparsely toothed, bracteal leaves linear and entire, 6 to 9 lines 

 long; whole plant floccose-woolly; stems very leafy; peduncles 

 slender, 1 to 3 inches long above the last bract; heads 4 lines 

 Jong, 6 to 8 lines wide exclusive of rays; scales linear; ray 

 flowers golden-yellow, 4 lines long, broadly obovate, obtusely 

 3-toothed, 10 to 25, becoming white with age; akenes contracted 

 below, truncate above, ray akenes, 3-angled and with 1 to 5 in- 

 termediate ribs, all much raised and rounded like wings, sparsely 

 hispid with blunt, stout projections, but not glandular, 1% lines 

 long, narrowly obpyramidal, disk ones similar but less angled 

 and with a tuft of projections appearing like hairs but too coarse 

 and stout and as though glandular, ray akenes bare at the top 

 and ribs united there. Darwin Mesa, Argus Mts. Cal. 5000 ft. 

 alt., in gravelly soil, May 11, 1897. Compared with B. multira- 



