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lis, stevilibus patentibus flagelliformibus ; foliis spathulatis mucronulatis inferioribus in 

 petiolum gracilem attenuates integris sen radicalibus parce inciso-lobatis, ramealibus par- 

 vulis sublinearibus sessilibus; ligulis numerosis gracilibus (albis purpureo tinctis) involu- 

 crum hirsutum duplo superantibus ; pappo radii et disci conformi duplici, exteriore coroni- 

 formi-squamellato conspicuo, interiore e setis sub-20 fragilibus. — Low, moist places, along 

 Santa Fe Creek; May, June. (381.) — Root slender. Flowering stems 5 to 7 inches 

 high, very slender, few-leaved below the middle, naked and pedunculiform above ; the 

 head rather smaller than in the preceding species ; the involucre, &c, similar. Lower 

 leaves one to two inches long, including the slender petiole ; those of the runner-like 

 sterile branches decreasing to 2 or 3 lines in length. This species should rank next to 

 the foregoing.* 



y 335. Diplopappus ericoides, Torr. 8f Gray, Fl. 2. p. 182; & ft. hirtella : 

 foliis laxis linearibus vel inferioribus spathulatis scabro-glandulosis non strigosis valde 

 hispido-ciliatis. — Sides of ravines in arid places, Santa Fe ; also on the Rio del Norte ; 

 May, June. (348.) — A tufted, Heath-like, suffruticose plant, of a span or less in height, 

 apparently subject to considerable variation in the foliage ; the leaves being sometimes 

 all appressed, linear-subulate or acerose, and hoary with appressed hairs ; sometimes less 

 hoary, but showing a close glandulosity ; or again (of which the var. ft. exhibits the most 

 marked form) with the leaves loose or a little spreading, destitute of appressed hairs, but 

 more glandular, and conspicuously fringed with hispid bristles, the longer ones half an 

 inch in length, the lowest strictly spatulate. The same species, in one or two forms, 

 was gathered in arid places, at Albuquerque, by Dr. Wislizenus, and at Chihuahua and 

 Buena Vista by Dr. Gregg. The outer pappus is inconspicuous, and consists of a few 

 very slender, short setae. The rays are white, sometimes tinged with purple. — At Buena 

 Vista, Dr. Gregg also collected what I take to be a mere variety of this species, with 

 " yellowish " rays. 



^ 336. Townsendia sericea, Hook. ! Fl. Bor.-Am. 2. p. 16. t. 119. ft. papposa. 

 Santa Fe, on arid hill-sides, less frequently in grassy places ; April, May. (349.) — 

 These are fine specimens of the original type of this well-marked genus, with the sessile 

 heads fully as large as in Richardson's and Drummond's specimens (the larger almost an 

 inch in length), and agreeing with them, except that the rays are more fully explanate 



* Erigeron decumbens, Nutt., communicated by Mr. Spalding, from the Kooskooskee, Oregon, has bright 

 purplish-blue rays. He also sends E. ochroleucum, Nutt., which is the same as no. 203 of Geyer's Oregon 

 collection. No. 30 of the same collection consists, in my set, of E. pumilum, with E. cjespitosum, /3. grandi- 

 florum. I mention this, because some transposition or confusion in respect to these numbers must have occur- 

 red either in the distribution of the specimens or in the published enumeration. 



