SOME ROCKY MOUNTAIN ASTERS. 215 
sparsely pubescent; pappus whitish, fragile and deciduous. 
Borders of marshy meadows below Marshall Pass, Colo- 
rado, 4 Sept., 1896. 
À. PRATINCOLA. Stems arising, as in the last, from a 
crown bearing many leaves, but not subscapiform, rather 
freely branching and fastigiately panicled, often 2 feet high : 
lowest leaves upright, 5 to 7 inches long, oblong-lanceolate 
to narrowly oblanceolate, entire, obtuse or acutish, rather 
firm, somewhat 3-nerved but not venulose, glabrous except 
as to the scabrous margin; the cauline much reduced, all 
sessile: involueres 4 inch high, campanulate, their bracts 
in 3 or 4 series, well imbricated, none wholly herbaceous, all 
with oblong green tips and more or less ciliate: rays 25 to 
35, purple: achenes with an appressed pubescence and 5 very 
prominent ribs of unequal distribution; pappus sordid, 
rather deciduous. 
A fine and conspicuous species of meadow lands along 
the Gunnison River at Gunnison, Colorado, 1 Sept., 1896, 
collected by the writer. 
A. MAJUSCULUS. Erect, stout, 1 to 2 feet high, with abun- 
dant large foliage and few large heads either somewhat 
freely panicled or subracemose: leaves of sterile basal shoots 
oval to spatulate-oblong, 2 to 4 inches long, scarcely petio- 
late, ascending or depressed, the copious cauline ones simi- 
larly large, often even larger, more spatulate, amplexicaul, 
commonly with fascicles of smaller ones in their axils, all 
from nearly entire to notably crenate, rarely crenate-serrate, 
of moderately firm texture, deep green and glabrous on both | 
faces, even the margins hardly scabrous; ascending pedicels 
or floral branches often with small spreading bracts and the 
whole inflorescence rather amply leafy: the few or rather 
