CoCKERELL: NortTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF HyMEnoxys 493 
woolly : basal leaves up to about 7 cm. long, some entire, but 
- some (the longer) always divided into about five broad-linear 
segments ; stem-leaves similar in character: inflorescence rather 
flat-topped, heads (excluding rays) about 10 mm. diameter ; rays 
10 mm. long, an mm. broad, of the most brilliant orange ; 
bracts light green, outer bracts united nearly half way up, 8 in 
number, extending very little beyond inner; inner bracts of the 
Hf. floribunda type, strongly fringed: achenes pallid, their hairs 
very long, pale, mostly simple-tipped ; pappus-scales long-acumi- 
nate, quite colorless except at extreme base, where they are ferru- 
ginous, over half length of disc-corolla : base of disc-corolla hairy : 
anthers rather narrow. (PLATE 21, FIGURE 3.) ; 
Burro Mts., New Mexico, O. B. Metcalfe 170. The type was 
kindly sent to me by Prof. E. O. Wooton; it will be placed in the 
National Museum. Another sheet, of smaller plants, is in the 
herbarium of Professor Wooton, who collected the material on the 
northwest peak of Burro Mts., Grant Co., N. M., Aug. 18, 1902. 
An undersized plant in poor condition, collected by / A. Snow in 
the Santa Fé mountains, August, looks like H. Metcalfei, but is 
perhaps only a peculiar state of H. floribunda, from unusually. 
damp ground. It has the rays hardly developed, and is only 17 
cm. tall, but it has leaves with comparatively broad segments, and 
rather the cut of H. Metcalfei. 
1. Metcalfei is one of the most beautiful species of the genus, 
with very much the growth of some forms of 1. floribunda, but 
bright orange rays reminding one of H. helenioides. It is easily 
known from 7. Rusbyi by the divided basal leaves, character of 
the pappus, etc. It is as near to H. Earlei as to anything, but the 
latter has more olive-green foliage, smaller flowers with different 
bracts and much less conspicuous rays, and longer basal leaves. 
The manner of growth is about the same in the two. 
“Hymenoxys Vaseyi (Gray) 
Actinella Vaseyi Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 17: 219. 1882. 
Picradenia Vaseyi Greene, Pittonia, 3: 272. 1898. 
_A bushy, glabrous plant about 30 cm. high or rather more, 
with heads about 10 mm. broad (excluding rays) on quite long 
peduncles ; the outer bracts united about half-way up (more or 
less), light yellowish, firm, with a strong longitudinal ridge. The 
Srowth of the plant reminds one of the mountain forms of the 
