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short pappus, the upper half of the tube being inflated 

 and fusiform and with rudimentary closed teeth ; nerves 

 very prominent, glabrous ; style branches subulate-filiform 

 and hispid for more than half their length. This is a 

 small shrub about i c high, branched at the base and 

 forming a rounded tuft of rather slender branches cov- 

 ered with the scale-like leaves, the flowers are cream- 

 colored or light yellow and are clustered at the end of the 

 branches, rather corymbosely, in heads of five or more. 

 This grows on very barren clay soil, at the foot of the 



Chrysopsis c^espitosa. 



No. 5249U. May 16, 1894, Springdale, Utah, in red 

 sand, 4000° alt. 



Caespitose from a woody much branched root, forming 

 a dense mat: leaves spatulate 6" long, clustered on very 

 short (13-20" long) ascending stems, very villous but not 

 hispid, apiculate; heads 3" high, sessile; scales ashy- 

 green, linear, somewhat unequal, inner with purple and 

 hyaline margins and acute; flowers yellow, rays dark and 

 short: outer pappus setulose. This is a very striking 

 plant, but may be an extreme form of C. villosa. 



This plant grows in very sandy soil covering sandstone 

 rocks, and seemed to be very scarce. 

 Aster glaucus var. Wasatchensis. 



No. 5861. August 22, 1894, Tate Mine, near Marys- 

 vale, Utah, 9 ooo u alt., in gravel, on mountain slopes. 



Plants glandular above; scales broad and with green, 

 foliaceous, spreading tips ; plants densely tufted, branched 

 above, 1-2" high. 



No. 5410. June 7, 1894, Monroe, Utah, 5500° alt., in 

 warm springs on lime tufa. 



Perennial, with rather fleshy-fibrous roots, growing in 



