248 PITTONIA. 
Meconopsis. The plant is by no means a dwarf, like the 
other boreal and alpine yellow poppies. The expanded 
corollas exceed 3 inches in diameter in the larger specimens. 
POTENTILLA ASHLANDICA. Stems tufted, slender, about a 
foot high, from short horizontal rootstocks: radical leaves 
4 to 6 inches long; leaflets 5 to 9, with a few rudimentary 
ones interspersed, mostly cuneate-obovate and 4 to 1 inch 
long, coarsely lacerate-toothed: flowers large, in a rather 
close corymbose cyme: segments of the calyx ovate, acumi- 
nate, 4 or 5 lines long, conspicuously ciliate ; bractlets linear- 
lanceolate, 8 or 4 Hnes long: petals bright yellow, round- 
obovate, nearly 4 inch long. 
In wet meadows near Ashland Butte, Oregon, T. Howell. 
Aster BorroNLE. Perennial, sometimes suffrutescent at 
base, 2 to 4 feet high, pale, glaucescent, the stem striate, 
loosely and somewhat corymbosely paniculate at summit: 
leaves linear or spatulate-linear, 2 to 4 inches long, obtuse, 
entire, somewhat dilated at the base and sessile, glabrous ex- 
cept the sparsely serrulate-ciliate margins: bracts of the hem- 
ispherical involucre nearly equal, biserial, the outer ones ob- 
long-linear and wholly herbaceous, the inner scarious-edged 
below the middle and spatulate-linear; rays rather numer- 
ous, pale purple or flesh-color: achenes narrow, slightly 
compressed, apparently nerveless (but too young), strigose- 
pubescent: corolla tubular-funnelform, the teeth short and 
erect: style-tips broadly subulate. 
In irrigated fields and along ditches in western Texas and 
southern New Mexico; the best specimens by, Marcus Jones 
from El Paso, 1884. An imperfect one by E. O. Wooton 
from the Mesilla Valley. The plant appears to have been 
mistaken for A. pauciflorus, Nutt., to which it bears no resem- 
blance, being much more like some Boltonia in aspect; but - E 
its delicate uniserial capillary-bristly pappus debars it from 
that genus. 
