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NEW OR NOTEWORTHY SPECIES. 311 
corolla nearly 3 inch long, of a dark lurid purple, narrow, 
slightly ventricose. ! 
Common on alpine slopes, below retreating snow banks, 
in wet clayey or gravelly soil, in the Sierra Nevada of Cali- 
fornia, August to October. It seems to have been referred 
heretofore to P. confertus, and is doubtless allied to it, though 
of totally different habit, and peculiar habitat. 
PTILORIA FILIFOLIA. Perennial, erect and rather strict, 
1 or 2 feet high, wholly glabrous and glaucous, the some- 
what virgate branches and main portion of stem clothed 
with long filiform entire leaves, the lowest leaves broader and 
runcinate toothed: involucres narrow, 5-flowered: achenes 
columnar, sharply pentagonal, the whole perfectly smooth, 
as long as the delicate white pappus, this about 15-rayed and 
plumose to the base. 
Gravelly banks of the Yakima River near Clealum, Wash- 
ington, collected by the writer, 13 Aug., 1889. 
PTILORIA SCABRELLA. Perennial and dwarf, the solitary 
rather stout and widely branched stems only 4 to 6 inches 
high; herbage glaucous, roughish with scattered sharp mu- 
ricate points: leaves mostly barely an ineh long, linear, 
sharply runcinate-dentate, scabrous, spreading or deflexed, 
the uppermost rameal reduced to subulate entire bracts: 
rather numerous heads a half-inch high, about 5-flowered: 
achenes unknown; pappus long and copious, dull-white, 
softly long-plumose from below the middle, the basal por- 
. tion naked and slightly dilated. 
Texas, S. C. Neally, 1888; the specimens distributed for 
Stephanomina exigua, and apparently so referred in Coulter's 
Botany of Western Texas; but not related to that species. 
