NEW SPECIES OF ANTENNARIA. 85 
long and obtusish to linear-oblong and acute or acuminate : 
pappus of male flowers very little dilated. 
One of our beginners in botanical authorship has lately 
published the complaint that, of my A. media no description 
has been given. The complaint is not, I must confess, 
wholly groundless; although in giving the essential char- 
acters of the species as compared with those of H. wnbrinella 
on the one hand, and of A. alpina on the other, I fully satis- 
fied the actual requirements of publication, at least as regards 
the public of experienced phytographers. Nevertheless, I 
acknowledge it had been better to have given a diagnostic 
character for the species; and that is now done. 
What I hold for the more typical A. media is the plant of 
the Sierra Nevada of middle California; such as Mr. Sonne 
has repeatedly collected and distributed from localities not 
far from Donner Lake. I judge it to occur all along the 
crest of that range of mountains, northward to Mt. Hood, 
whence Mr. Howell has distributed it. The British American 
specimens formerly cited by me are less typical, and might 
be distinguished as a variety. 
The following is nearly allied to A. media, yet must be 
held specifically distinct. 
A. BonEALIs. Habit and foliage of A. media, but stolons 
less firm, their leaves less densely woolly-tomentose: flower- 
ing stems less slender, somewhat taller, leafy up to the in- 
florescence: heads 4 to 7, more generally pedicellate, thus . 
forming a more corymbose cluster: bracts of involucre with 
more amply developed scarious tips of a light reddish-brown, 
the outer broadly but somewhat cuneately obovate, obtuse, 
the inner oblong-obovate, acutish, all more or less lacerate- 
serrulate, in maturity somewhat squarrose-spreading : male 
plant not known. 
Disenchantment Bay, Alaska, 10 Aug. 1892, Fred. Fun- 
ston; his n. 101 (of my set). 
1E. Nelson, in Bull. Torr. Club, xxiv. 210. 
