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4. Thelesperma longipes A. Gray, PI. Wright. 1: 109. 1852. Cota. 



Type locality: "Hills and dry banks of the San Pedro or Devil's River," western 

 Texas. 



Range: Western Texas to southern Arizona and southward. 



New Mexico: Hillsboro; Tortugas Mountain; Organ Mountains; Capitan Moun- 

 tains; White Mountains; Guadalupe Mountains; Torrance. Dry hills and mesas, in 

 the Lower and Upper Sonoran zones. 



In the southern i)art of the State this is said to be used as a substitute for tea by 

 the native people. When boiled it gives the water a deep red tinge. The same 

 material may be boiled several times before losing its strength. 



65. COREOPSIS L. 



Annual or perennial herbs with simple or pinnately divided leaves and solitary 

 or numerous pedunculate heads of yellow or -brown flowers; involucre campauulate 

 or hemispheric, the bracts in 2 series, more or less imited at the base, those of the 

 outer series narrow and herbaceous, the inner ones broad, colored, thin and scarious 

 or with scarious margins; rays conspicuous, yellow to brown; receptacle flat or slightly 

 convex, chaffy; achenes flat, oblong to orbicular, winged or wingless; pappus wanting 

 or minute. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



Perennial ; leaves simple 1. C. lanceolata. 



Annuals; leaves pinnately divided. 



Achenes winged. 2. C. cardaminefolia. 



Achenes wingless 3. C. tinctoria. 



1. Coreopsis lanceolata L. Sp. PI. 908. 1753. 

 Type locality: "Habitat in Carolina." 



Range: Ontario and Florida to Colorado and New Mexico. 



New Mexico: Santa Fe and Las Vegas moxuitains; East View. Open fields, in 

 the Transition Zone. 



2. Coreopsis cardaminefolia (DC.) Torr. & Gray, FI. N. Araer. 2: 346. 1842. 

 Calliopsis cardamuiefolia DC. Prodr. 5: 568. 1836. 



Type locality: "In Mexici prov. Texas inter Bejar et flum. Triuitatis, ad Mata- 

 moros et ad lacum Sancti-Nicolai in sinu Sancti Spiritus." 



Range: Louisiana and Texas to Kansas and New Mexico. 



New Mexico: North of Ramah; Pescado Spring. Plains, in the Upper Sonoran 

 Zone. 



3. Coreopsis tinctoria Nutt. Joum. Acad. Phila. 2: 114. 1821. 

 Calliopsis tinctoria DC. Prodr. 5: 568. 1836. 



Type locality: "Throughout the Arkansas territory to the banks of Red RiA'er, 

 chiefly in the prairies which are subject to temporary inundation." 



Range: Saskatchewan and Minnesota to Louisiana, Texas, and Arizona. 



New Mexico: Shiprock (»Sta77(i% 7233). Upper Sonoran Zone. 



Doctor Gray states ^ that this was collected "East of Mora River, in low places," 

 by Fendler in 1847. 



66. BIDENS L. Beggar-ticks. 



Slender or coarse annuals with opposite, simple or compound leaves and medium- 

 sized heads of yellow or brownish flowers; involucre of 2 series of bracts, the inner 

 thin and colored, the outer narrow and foliaceous; rays 3 to 8 or none, yellow, neutral; 

 achenes flattened parallel to the bracts of the iuA'olucre or very narrow; pappus of 2 

 awns or short teeth. 



^ Mem. Amer, Acad. n. ser. 4: 85. 1849. 



