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on Mt. Albert the plant is quickly distinguished by its narrow 
elongate thyrsus and bright yellow involucral bracts as well as by 
numerous other characters. In habit it is a close match for S. 
multtradiata, var. Neo-Mexitcana. That plant, however, has the 
cauline leaves more’ promiently toothed and the firmer greener 
bracts of the involucre distinctly pubescent along the back, while 
the bright yellow bracts of the Gaspé plant are thin and glabrous. 
I have been unable to find any mention of a plant which seems 
specifically identical with the yellow-bracted plant of the River Ste. 
Anne des Monts, which in recognition of its unusual involucral 
character I propose to call 
Sotipaco chrysolepis sp. n. Caule erecto simplice glabro 
apice setuloso-piloso ; foliis coriaceis, inferioribus spatulatis apice 
rotundatis petiolatis crenato-serratis, caulinis remotis elongato- 
oblanceolatis acutis subintegris vel rare serratis, superioribus 
lineari-lanceolatis ; capitulis in thyrsum spiciformem confertis ; 
involucris campanulatis, squamis flavis glabris acutis margine 
ciliolatis medio glutinosis ; floribus 12-16, ligulis 6-8 ; achaeniis 
setulosis. i 
Plant 5-6.5 dm. high, the erect simple reddish stem glabrous 
below, sparingly setulose-pilose above, especially in the inflores- 
cence : leaves leathery ; the basal and lower cauline spatulate, with 
rounded tips, petioled, crenate-serrate, 12-18 cm. long, 2-3.5 cm. 
broad ; the few (3 to 5) remote cauline ones elongate-oblanceolate, 
acute, subentire or slightly serrate, 7-17 cm. long, 1-2 cm. broad ; 
the floral linear-lanceolate, only the lowermost conspicuous: 
inflorescence a virgate or spiciform compound thyrsus, 2-4.5 dm. 
long, 4-6 cm. thick, the branchlets setulose-pilose: heads mostly 
slender-pedicelled, in anthesis spreading or nodding, later becom- 
ing suberect : involucre campanulate, 5-6 mm. long: bracts 12 to 
15, in 3 ranks; the outer bluntly acute; the inner attenuate, 
acute ; all bright yellow, with a narrow glutinous darker middle, 
glabous except the obscurely ciliolate margin: ray-and disk- 
flowers each 6 to 8, orange-yellow: achenes slightly broadened 
above, setulose.—QuEBEC, gravel-beach of River Ste. Anne des 
Monts, August 5th, 1905 (/. &. Collins & M. L. Fernald). 
Gray Herbarium, Harvard University. 
