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a very minute apiculate cone. On the other hand, the conical appendage is manifest in 

 some of the Eriophylla, as in B. lencophylla. If the two genera are to be restored, they 

 must bear the names originally imposed by Lagasca. Eriophyllum trolliifolium, Lag., 

 which is yet to be identified, is certainly of a different genus.* 



S 421. Actinella arge.ntea (sp. liov.) : caulescens, undique sericeo-incana ; caulibus 

 (4— 10-uncialibus) inferne ramosis adscendentibus apice longe aphyllo monocephalis ; 

 foliis integerrimis oblanceolatis nitento-sericeis, imis rosulatis spathulatis 3-nerviis, caulinis 

 superioribus linearibus uninerviis ; involucri squamis 3-seriatis lanceolatis; pappi paleis 

 lato-ovatis breviter aristatis, nervo evanido. — Gravelly and stony hills, around Santa 

 Fe; April to June. (457.) — This showy species most resembles A. acaulis ; but is 

 larger, and apparently does not grow in dense tufts; the branching stems are leafy to the 

 middle, and the silky pubescence of the leaves is closer and more silvery. The larger 

 specimens are ten inches high; and the stems apparently continue to produce flowering 

 branches through the summer. The heads, with the expanded rays, are fully an inch 

 and a half in diameter. Ligules 15, cuneate, half an inch long. Receptacle hemi- 

 spherical. The silky achenia and the pappus are silvery-white; the latter of broader 

 palece with shorter awns than in A. acaulis. — The latter was gathered by Dr. Wislizenus 

 between Rabbit's Ear and Rock Creeks ; and Dr. Gregg found at Buena Vista an allied 

 species with narrower and glabrate leaves, which I take to be a taller form of A. Tor- 

 reyana.f 



* Bahia arachnoidea, Fisch. <$- Lallan, in Lid. Sem. Hort. Felrop. 1S42, remarkable for its dilated rhom- 

 bic or cuneiform and barely lobed leaves, and for a very short pappus, was also gathered at San Francisco, 

 California, by the U. S. Exploring Expedition. B. latifolia, Benth. Voy. Sulph. p. 30, from Bodegas, would 

 appear to be the same species, with more lobed leaves; but the short palese of the pappus are more than four 

 in our plant, and the heads are smaller than those of Bahia lanata. 



t Two species have been added to this genus by Fremont, viz. the A. grandiflora, Torr. §■ Gray, in 

 Bost. Jour. Nat. Hist., collected in his first expedition, which has pinnately-parted simple leaves, and leafy 

 stems, bearing a head nearly as large as that of Gaillardia aristata ; and the following : — 

 / Actinella depressa (Torr. 8f Gray, Fl. ined.): nana, escaposa, multiceps, caudicibus dense csespitosis 

 oblongis foliis anguste linearibus punctatis glabratis basi vaginata imbricante lanatissimis surFultis capitulo 

 arete sessili terminatis ; pappi paleis 5 -6 ovatis acuminato-aristatis corolla disci paulo brevioribus. — Rocky 

 Mountains, apparently at a great elevation, the locality unknown, Col. Fremont; collected in the second 

 expedition. The thick, matted stems are only an inch high ; and the heads, which are nearly as large as 

 those of A. acaulis, are strictly sessile and immersed among the very woolly bases of the leaves. Rays 

 yellow. Palese of the pappus more or less thickened along the axis. 

 * Var. |8. ptgmxa : caudicibus cum capitulo globulosis ; foliis junioribus cano-sericeis, annotinis glabratis. 

 — Raton Mountains, April, 1848, Mr. A. Gordon. — The specimens, with some other interesting plants 



