164 COMPOSITJE. Ax>hanostephus. 



ramosissima, Gray, PI. Fendl. 71, & PI. Liuclh. ii. 220. — Rocky and sandy prairies, Texas. 

 (Adjacent Mex.) 

 A. humilis Gray, 1. c. Low and diffuse, soft-pubescent and cinereous : leaves rarely entire, 

 often pinnatifid : heads on slender peduncles : rays 3 or 4 lines long : akenes shorter and 

 more distinctly costate-angulate. — Leucopsidhtm humile, Beuth. PL Hartw. 18. Egletes 

 humilis, Gray, PI. Fendl. 71. — Southern and western borders of Texas, Wrigld, Palmer (but 

 his plant, no. 494, doubtful), Reverchon. (Mex.) 



A. R.VMOSus, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xvi. 90 (Keerlia ramosa, DC), Mexico, Keerl, is im- 

 perfectly known. 



* * Pappus more conspicuous and dentate or laciniate: base of the corolla-tube in age promi- 

 nently thickened and indurated, long persistent on the strongly angulate-costate akene. 

 A. Arkansanus, Gray, 1. c. Diffuse, a foot high, ciuereou.s-pubescent : leaves from 

 oblong-spatulate to broadly lanceolate ; lower often tootlied or sinulate-lobed : heads larger : 

 rays commonly half-inch long : outer akenes usually suberose-angled or ribbed : pappus 

 mostly obtusely 4-5-lobed or pluridentate. — Leucopsiditim Arkansunuin, DC. Prodr. vi. 43. 

 Keerlia skirrobasis, DC. Prodr. v. 310 ; Deless. Ic. iv. t. 18 ; Hook. Ic. t. 240. Egletes ArJcan- 

 sana, Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. vii. 394; Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 411. — Plains of Arkansas, 

 Kansas, and Texas ; first coll. by Berlandier. 



Var. Hallii, Gray, 1. c. Somewhat smaller : leaves varying from entire to pinnately 

 parted : crown of tlie pappus more conspicuous, deeply cleft into 4 or 5 unecjual subulate- 

 acuminate lobes ! — Texas, E. Hull (no. 303, 304), Palmer. 



37. GREENJ&LiLiA, Gray. (Bev. Edward Lee Greene, the discoverer.) 

 — Slender and low winter annuals ; the typical species (analogoits to Gutierrezia) 

 diffuse and conspicuously radiate ; an ambiguous species rayless, and perhaps not 

 truly congeneric. — Proc. Am. Acad. xvi. 81. 



Q, Arizonica, Gray, I.e. Smooth and glabrous, diffusely branched from the base: leaves 

 small (inch or less long), entire, veiuless, sessile, alternate ; radical ones lanceolate or ob- 

 scurely spatulate, liispidulous-ciliolate ; cauline narrowly linear and gradually reduced to 

 subulate : heads solitary at summit of divergent filiform branclilets : involucre 2 or 3 lines 

 liigh and wide; bracts with a conspicuous subapical green spot: rays 10 to 16, oblong or 

 obovate, white : mature akenes densely white-villous, the hairs tipped with a capitellate 

 gland : liorder of tlie pappus-crown multisetulose-dissected. — Mesas of Arizona, Greene 

 (1877), LciniDon, Primjle. The root obviously not perennial. 



G. discoidea, Gray. Stems or branches numerous from a probably monocarpie but lig- 

 nescent root, strict, very leafy : leaves all narrowly linear, acute ; the lower (over an inch 

 long ) with obscurely ciliolate-scabrous margins : heads somewhat corymbose : involucre 

 barely 2 lines liigh ; the liracts more scarious and with indistinct green spot : rays none : 

 ovaries gIal)rous : pappus pluridenticulate. — Proc. Am. Acad. xix. 2. — S. Arizona, ia 

 Tanner's Canon, Lemmon. 



38. KEERLIA, Gray. {F. W. Keerl, a German traveller in Mexico.) — 

 Diffusely and slenderly branched Texan herbs, leafy-stemmed ; with small j^anicu- 

 late heads on almost capillary peduncles, white or purple rays, and oblong entire 

 sessile leaves ; the style-appendages in one sjiecies much elongated (in the manner 

 of the preceding genus), and this has only sterile ovaries in the disk. — PI. L'indh. 

 ii. 220, «fe PI. Wright, i. 92, not DC, whose genus of this name was founded on 

 two species of Ap/ianostephus and a Xanthocephalum, to which was added a syn- 

 onyme belonging to a Bellis. 



K. belli difolia, Gray & Engelm. Annual, pubescent, effusely branched from near the 

 base, a span or two high ; wlien young witli tlie habit of Bellis inferjrijhlia : lower leaves 

 obovate or spatulate ; uppermost somewhat linear: involucre only 2 lines long: rays 4 to 15, 

 blue: style-appenilages in the disk-flowers short and very obtuse: akenes obovate-clavate 

 and moderately compressed. — Proc. Am. Acad. i. 47; PI. Liudh. 1. c. ; PI. "Wright, 1. c. — 

 Fertile soil, Texas, Lindhelmer, Wright, 



