Bigelovia. COMPOSITE. 137 



tains in Colorado to the borders of New Mexico and Utah ; first coll. by Parry. Forms 

 approach B. graceolens. 



* * Style-appendages short-subulate, these and the deltoid-ovate obtuse anther-tips hardly ex- 

 serted: akeiies linear-oblong, glabrous: involucre canipanulate-cylindraceous, equalling the 

 15 to 20 flowers: herbage glabrous throughout. 



B. Engelmanni, Gray. A span or two high, in tufts from a suffrutescent subterranean 

 branching caudex or rootstock : stems simple, very leafy up to the cymoseglomerate heads : 

 leaves all narrowly linear (inch or two long, only a line wide), rigid : heads (few or rather 

 numerous in the cluster) bai'ely half-inch long : bracts of the involucre firm-chartaceous, 

 oblong or innermost lanceolate, regularly imbricated and appressed, outer similar but short, 

 all abruptly mucronate or short-cuspidate, slightly greenish below the tip. — Proc. Am. 

 Acad. xi. 75. — Plains of Colorado at Hugo Station, Eivjehnann, Parry, Patterson. 



§ 2. ChrtsothXmnus, Gray, 1. c. Heads narrow or small, 5-flowered (in 

 B. Doufflasii sometimes 6-7-flowere(l), mostly numerous and crowded: involucre 

 (anomalous first species excepted) of dry and chartaceous more or less carinate 

 bracts imbricated so as to form 5 conspicuous vertical ranks (less manifestly so 

 when the bracts are less numerous) : corollas narrow : style-appendages Vv'ith 

 exserted subulate- or setaceous-filiform ajDpendages : akenes slender : fruticose or 

 suffruticose and branching, vv'itli entire narrow leaves. — Bigelovia, § 2, DC. 1. c. 

 Chrysothamnus, Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 1. c. 



* Transition to preceding section : iuvolucral bracts comparatively large, not carinate nor obviously 

 5-stichous, some outer ones foliaceous-acuminate or appendaged : anther-tips very short and 

 obtuse: corollas said to be even "white." 



B. albida, M. E. Jones. Shrubby, a foot or two high, more or less resinous-viscid, fasti- 

 giately branched, very leafy : leaves all filiform, mucronate, not obviously punctate : heads 

 fastigiate-glomerate at the summit of the brauchlets, 5 or 6 lines long : involucre oblong- 

 turbinate or cylindraceous ; its bracts rather few and coriaceo-chartaceous, lanceolate ; outer 

 with rather rigid subulate-acuminate and recurved or spreading foliaceous tip or appendage ; 

 inner wholly chartaceous and pointless : corollas probably ochroleucous ; lobes of the deeply 

 cleft limb linear-lanceolate: akenes pubescent. — Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xvii. 209. — Arid 

 districts, east of the Sierra Nevada: Owens Valley, California, coll. 1875, Kelloc/g. Wells 

 Station, W. Nevada, Marcus E. Jones, who states that the flowers are white. 



* * Genuine species, with thinner more chartaceous and carinate involucral bracts, none folia- 

 ceous-tipped: anther-tips lanceohte or narrowly oblong. 



-J— Akenes and ovaries glabrous, 4-6-angled and with broad epigynous disk: pappus rigidulous: 

 corollas 5-toothed or short-lobed: bracts of the involucre acute or acuminate, numerous and 

 strictly 5-stichous, 5 or 6 in each vertical rank: herbage not punctate, slightly or not at all bal- 

 samic-resinous: heads half to tliree-fourths inch long, somewhat fastigiately glomerate. 



B. depressa, Gray, 1. c. Obscurely scabro-puberulent and pale, a span or two high from a 

 decumbent woody base : branches leafy up to the glomerule or fasciculate cyme of few 

 heads : leaves short (about half-inch or less long), lanceolate or lowest rather spatulate, rigid, 

 mucronate-acute, with carinate midrib and no veins : heads half-inch long : involucral bracts 

 lanceolate, gradually acuminate into an almost setaceous tip. — Chrysothamnns depressits, 

 Nutt. PI. Gamb. 171. Luiosyris depressa, Torr. in Sitgreaves Rep. 161. — Plains of S. Colo- 

 rado to adjacent New Mexico and S. Utah ; first coll. by Gamhel. 



B. pulchella, Gray, 1. c. Glabrous and green, shrubby, 2 or 3 feet high, fastigiately much 

 braucb.ed, very leafy up to fastigiate-cymose heads: leaves narrowly linear, plane (inch or 

 less hing), rather obtuse, with ciliolate-scalirous margins and midrib not prominent : heads 

 two-thirds to three-fourths inch long : involucral bracts rigid-chai"taceous and lower ones ob- 

 scurely herbaceous on the back, much carinate, acute and cuspidate-mucronate. — Linosyris 

 pulchella, Gray, PI. Wright, i. 96; Torr. in Sitgreaves, 1. c. t. 4. — W. borders of Texas to 

 adjacent New Mexico and Colorado ; first coll. by Wright. 



B. Bigelovii, Gray, 1. c. Cancscent with fine close tomentum when young, glabrate, 

 shrubby, a foot to a yard high, fastigiately much branched, rigid : branches less leafy, bear- 

 ing a few fastigiate-clustered heads (these half to two-thirds inch high) : leaves nearly fili- 



