Contrihitions to Canadian Botany. 465 



many spatulate, linear, acute, entire leaves, and stoutish 

 ascending, sparsely leafy nionocephalous peduncles ; the 

 younger foliage canescently strigose, the older glal)rate ; 

 heads large, hemispherical ; bracts of the somewhat lioary- 

 tomentose involucre subequal, in two series ; rays about 

 50, rather broad, purple. 



Summit of Sheep Mountain, Waterton Lake, Rocky 

 Mountains, alt., 7,500 ft., July 31st, 1895. Herb. No. 

 10,858. {John Macoun.) Distributed as Erigeron 

 ochroleucus. 



Erigerox kindbergi, Greene, Pittonia, Vol. III., p. 165. 



Stems several, erect, from a perennial root, 6 inches 

 high, pilose-pubescent, apparently flaccid and not con- 

 spicuously angled ; lowest leaves oblanceolate, entire, 

 acute, wholly glabrous and, in no degree, ciliate ; the 

 cauline narrowly linear, elongated, sessile by an abruptly 

 dilated base ; heads mostly solitary, small, the involucre 

 barely three lines high ; bracts very unequal, all narrowly 

 linear and rather abruptly acute, glabrous and glandless, 

 except at the pilose-pubescent base ; rays very numerous, 

 narrow and short ; pappus scanty for the E. acris group, 

 and not at all accrescent, dull-white, unchanged in age. 



Meadows on the plateau east of Stump Lake, B.C., July 

 14th, 1891. Herb. Xo. 7,793. (Jas. McEvoy.) Named 

 for Dr. Nils Conrad Kindberg, by whom some of the 

 characters were indicated in 1892. 



Erigeron jucundus, Greene, I'ittonia, A^ol. III., p. 165. 



E. acris, Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. L, p. 547 in part.' 



E. acris, var. Drcebachcnsis, Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, 

 Vol. L, p. 547 in part. 



E. aljnnus, Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. I., p. 234 in 

 part. 



Perennial, 2 to 10 inches high, the several stems mono- 

 cephalous, or in larger plants with several and corymbose- 



