- NEW OR NOTEWORTHY SPECIES. 23 
PyrrRovoMA coxGESTA. Stems rather slender, 2 feet high 
more, simple, leafy below, floriferous from below the mid- 
e, the smallish heads. clustered in the axils of all the re- 
uced cauline leaves: herbage glabrous throughout, except 
ng, on a slender petiole as long; cauline smaller, tapering 
‘a short winged petiole: imvolueros campanulate, about. 
: inch high; bracts rigid, oblong, 3-nerved, with acute green 
tips: pappus tawny, of coarse very unequal bristles; only 
the onter disk-flowers fertile, the achenes of these oblong, 
appressed-pilose; abortive achenes of ray and inner disk 
nsely silky-pubescent. 
Western base of the Coast Mountains near Waldo, Oregon, 
1892, Thomas Howell. Related to the middle Californian 
P. elata, but with very different foliage and inflorescence and 
perfectly distinct. 
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PYRROCOMA GossYPINA. Stoutish decumbent or ascending 
stems 8 or 10 inches high, densely clothed throughout, as 
are also the petioles of the radical leaves, with a fine white 
mass of cottony wool: radical leaves shortly petioled, lanceo- 
late, coriaceous, subentire, or spinulose-serrate; cauline 
spatulate-lanceolate, entire, pungently acute: heads large; 
racemosely disposed one in the axil of each eauline leaf and 
one terminal; involucre broadly hemispherical, 3 to 2 inch in 
diameter, the bracts in only 2 or 3 series, thin, linear-lanceo- 
late, acute; not notably herbaceous-tipped nor at all squar- 
rose: rays numerous: achenes unknown. 
_ At Bear Valley in the San Bernardino Mountains, Cali- 
fornia, S. B. Parish, distributed for Aplopappus lanceolatus. 
. This is the most southerly species of the genus, so far as: 
- known’; and no other has an actually cottony pubescence: 
. except the very different P. eriopoda of southern Nevada; 
1 and that is the nearest neighbor to the present species; 
1 posi the two are not near relatives. 
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