NEW OR NOTEWORTHY SPECIES. 17 



of a variety of A. Engelmanni. As a new Asfer, I name it 

 in reference to the likeness it bears, in several particulars, to 

 certain Mexican species of BrickeUia. 



I liave this year collected a plant which, in the face of a 

 good deal of dissimilarity as regards form and texture and 

 even the venation and pubescence of the loaves, I neverthe- 

 less place provisionally under A. brickclUoideSy as a variety 

 GLABEATUS. Stems several, erect, 2 feet high, equably leafy 

 up to the base of tlie many-flowered thyrsoid panicle : leaves 

 oblong-lanceolate, acute, entire, triple-nerved at base, sessile, 

 2 inches long, not coriaceous, glabrous above, often sparingly 

 roughish-pubescent beneath : involucre slightly tomentulose ; 

 bracts broader and thinner than in the type, acute; rays 



none : achenes hirsute. 



Common among oak bushes (Qiiercus CErstcdiana) toward 

 the summits of the Siskiyou Mountains, Oregon, 3 Sept., 1889 : 

 therefore not far from the habitat of the tj^jje. 



Aplopappus Bloomeri, var. Sonnel Apparently depressed 

 and diffusely branching : leaves linear-acerose, an inch long 

 or more, and together with the branchlets and involucres, 

 canescently flocculent : rays few (2 or 3, as in the tyi)e), 

 large : pappus white (somewhat fulvous in the typical A. 



Bloomeri). 



Sandy soil about Donner Lake in the Sierra Nevada, August, 

 1889, C. F. Sonne. If the individuals had been few I should 

 have guessed the plants to be hybrids between A. Bloomeri 

 and some one of the floccose species of Bigelovia. But 

 Mr. Sonne reports it as plentiful, and well isolated from all 

 Bigelovias. 



ApLorAPPUS CRUENTUS. Shrubby and low, the stout diver- 

 gent monocephalous branches very leafy and somewhat 

 villous : leaves coriaceous, spatulate-obovate, an inch long 

 or more, glabrous, not veiny, closely spinose-serrate : heads 

 solitary, very large (more than an inch broad and nearly as 

 high) ; involucre turbinate, the scales closely imbricate in 



November 20, 1889. 



