VI. 



PLANT-5; WRIGHTIAN.E. 



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30 - 40, slender, purple. — A very distinct species, with the hcads as large as in 

 A. Moranensls, H. B. K (to which probably belongs A. purpuratus, Nccs), nnd 

 nearly as large as in A. flexuosus, not at all turbinate at the base; the scalcs 

 closely imbricated in nuraerous series. 



A. (Oxytripolium) blepharofiiyllus' (sp, nov.): surculoso-csespitosus, humilis, 

 glaber; foliis linearibus vel surculorum lineari-spathulatis eximie setoso-ciliatis, 

 ramorum brevissimis ; ramulis fastigiatis monocephalis ; invohicri tuibinati squamis 

 phiriserialibus oblongis acutis chartaceis ; ligulis 10 - 14 oblongis exsertis ; achcniis 

 sericeis. — Las Playas Springs, New Mexico, in subsaline soil ; Oct. (1164.) 

 " Plaut forming large patches," the flowering stems a span liigh. Leaves, more 

 especially those of the surculose shoots, conspicuously fringed with strong white 

 bristles of a length nearly equal to the breadth of the leaf, and the apcx tipped 

 with a similar bristle; the upper cauline and rameal only one or two lines long, 

 and soon reduced to subulate bracts less fringcd or naked. Ilcads 3 lincs long ; 

 the one-nerved scales of the involucre with minutely scarious and ciliolate margins. 



Erigeron macranthum, Nutt.; Gray, VI. Fendl.p. 67. Stony hills at the copper 

 mines, New Mexico ; Aug., Oct. (1165.) — The stems are hispid, more so than in 

 Fendler's No. 330. 



E. BellidiastruMj Nutt. ; Graj/, Pl. Fendl. p, 67. Near El Paso 1 (locality not 



recorded). 



E. MODESTUM, Gray, PL Fendl. p. 68, ^ Pl. Wright. p. 90. Prairies of Live Oak 



Creek, &c. ; May. (1166.) 



E. diyergens, Torr. fy Gray, Fl. 2. p. 175; Grai/, Pl. Wright. p. 91. Vallcys of 

 the Pecos, Limpio, and Rainwater Creek, in alluvial soil ; June : and sidcs of the 



Organ Mountains 



N 



00 ; Aug. : a still more flagelliform state (E. flagcllare, Gray, Pl. Fendl). (1168.) 

 E. diyergens, var. cinereum, Graj/, Pl. Wright. l. c. Mountains, around the 



copper mines; Oct : a late, much-branched state. (1169.) Ilills noar EI Paso ; 



March, April : the early, normal form. 



E. (Polyactidium) delphinifolium, WiUd. Hort. Berol. t. 90. Polyactidium 



delphinifolium, DC. Prodr.b.p. 282. On mountains at the copper mines, common; 



Aug.-Oct. (1170.) 



E. (C^NOTUs) ERiopiiYLLUM (sp. noY.) : anuuum ? floccoso-Ianatum; caule erccto 

 superne paniculato, ramulis patentibus monocephalis ; foliis sessilibus, inferioribus 

 spathulatis vel oblanceolatis vcrsus apicem dentatis, superioribus linearibus integcr- 

 rimis ; involucri squamis glabratis 3 - 4-seriatis, exterioribus brevioribus ; ligulis 

 pluriserialibus purpurascentibus pappum simplicem haud superantibus ; acheniis 

 plano-compressis hirtellis margine crasso cinctis. — On the Sonoita, near Dcscrted 

 Rancho, Sonora; Sept. — Stem a foot or more in height. Leaves 12 to 16 lines 

 lono-, the white and floccose wool at length ncarly deciduous from thc upper sur- 

 face. Ileads 4 lines long, hemispherical, many-flowered. Ligules narrowly lincar. 

 Achenia all fertile, flat, obovate, with a small terminal areola. Pappus cntirely 

 simple and capillary, rather longer than the disk-flowers, white, deciduous, the 

 bristles slightly connected at the base. — This plant mueh rescmblcs the figure of 



TL. WR. 11. 



