22 PITTONIA. 
RIBES LAstANTHUM. Stout, low, widely spreading an 
tricately branched, the height seldom exceeding 2 
branches glabrous ; infrastipular spines commonly 3, rath 
‘slender, straight: rounded leaves 1 to 3 inch broad, sh 
3 or 4, in very short-peduncled racemes, yellow; calyx a 
5 lines long, the hirsute tube much dilated above the ov 
thence tapering gradually to the spreading spatulate x 
petals also spatulate, shorter than the calyx:lobes; y« i 
‘ovaries hairy: fruit unknown. d 
An almost alpine species, flowering in the latter p 
July, near the receding snow-drifts in the mounta 
SOLIDAGO CILIOSA. Stout low decumbent stems only 3. 
8 inches high, from a multicipitous caudex, the whole pla 
therefore cespitose, very leafy below : lowest leaves narr 
spatulate, serrate-toothed at the obtuse summit, cauli 
Spatulate-linear, entire, all very densely ciliate along 
‘broad but somewhat winged-petiolar lower half, gradu 
less so toward the apex: heads in a slightly unilater: 
disposed but dense thyrsiform cluster, large, conspicuo: 
radiate, the pedicels and the whole rachis of the infloresce 
canescently hirsute: braets of the involucre lanceolate,. | 
serrulate-ciliolate: achenes pubescent. co oae e dne 
‘Collected by the writer, on Mt. San Francisco, 
Arizona, in July, 1889. A member of that 
mode of growth, than any of the above inad it 
