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about tc the exserted style and stamens; the tube sHghtly pubescent. 

 Akenes (immature) hispid with dense, white, upwardly appressed hairs; 

 pappus simple, scabrous. 



This is near A. yosemttanus Greene {A. ascendens yosem- 

 itaiius Gray), of which it may prove to be a variety. The 

 habit of growth is quite unlike that of the above species, 

 while its larger heads, sparingly leafy stems terminated by 

 few heads, and the auriculate- or cordate-clasping cauline 

 leaves make it appear even more distinct. It is the com- 

 mon aster of the wet meadows at the upper altitudes in 

 this region. 



Collected in Horse Corral Meadow, Jul)'^ 11, 1899, and 

 named in honor of Mr. Pierson Durbrow. 



"^ 14. Madia villosa, sp. nov. 



Stems simple, erect from an annual root, about 3 dm. high, slender, vil- 

 lous with long, white, soft, spreading hairs, also becoming glandular near the 

 top with black, stipitate glands. Lower leaves generally opposite, upper 

 alternate, linear or the lowest oblanceolate, sessile, entire, or glandular- 

 serrate with distant teeth, revolute, strongly ribbed, villous, with the hairs 

 finely pustulate on the older leaves, obtuse at apex, 4-7 cm. long, 2-5 mm. 

 wide. Heads few, terminating slender peduncles near the top of the stem, 

 the uppermost first in bloom, clothed with few small bractlets; outer bracts 

 of the involucre 8 mm. long, the foliaceous tips equalling that which encloses 

 the akene, linear acuminate, villous and glandular, half as long as the deeply 

 three-lobed rays, these often with a reddish-brown spot at base; inner bracts 

 scarious with short foliaceous tips; disk flowers all sterile, the corollas as long 

 as the abortive akenes, together 8 mm. long, the tube somewhat villous and 

 the lobes clothed at tip with spreading hairs; fertile akenes flattened laterally, 

 semilunate, black and brown mottled, minutely papillate in rows, 1.5 mm. 

 wide, 4 mm. long, glabrous; anthers purple and exserted, giving a purplish 

 color to the disk. 



This is nearest to Madia coiymbosa DC. {Madaria co?-- 

 ymbosa Greene). It is also close to M. hispida Greene, 

 and really seems to be intermediate between the two 

 species. 



The type was collected at Converse Basin, July 12, 1899. 

 It was also found on Bubbs Creek trail. 



