402 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [JUNE 
Kuhnia Fitzpatricki, n. sp—Stems I-several, with a woody 
root, erect, 1™ (more or less) high: stems simple, rather slen- 
der, light green, obscurely striate, scarcely puberulent: leaves 
numerous, very uniformly distributed except near the base 
where they are early deciduous, green and appearing glabrous 
but puberulent or minutely scabrous especially on the margins 
or veins, thin, not impressed punctate and the resin particles 
microscopic, very uniform in shape and size, narrowly lanceolate, 
the cuneate base subpetiolate and with 1 or more linear bracts 
in the axils, 8-12 long, 8-15™™" wide, coarsely and somewhat 
uniformly toothed, upwardly becoming narrower, entire and in 
the short inflorescence somewhat reduced: cymes few and of few 
‘heads, crowded: pedicels and involucre softly pubescent; the 
outer bracts filiform; the inner broadly linear, acuminate: 
corolla purple(?), tube short, very slender, dilated at base, 
expanding into a much longer cylindrical throat: akene fusi- 
form, 5™ long, equaled by the very fine white pappus. 
This remarkably distinct species from the prairies of Iowa, I have from 
IT. J. and M. F. L. Fitzpatrick, who collected it in Decatur county, Septem- 
ber 25, 1899, where it is said to be common. It was distributed as KX. eupa- 
torioides L! (var. ?). 
Kuhnia Gooddingi, n. sp.— Perennial, from a densely caespi- 
tose-tufted caudex: stems very numerous, loosely spreading, 
5-8 high, simple and almost leafless below, striate and minutely 
puberulent: leaves numerous, crowded on the middle portion of 
the stem, sparsely and minutely puberulent especially on the 
margins and veins, linear to narrowly lanceolate, 2-4™ long, 
entire or nearly so, more or less revolute-margined, minutely 
impressed-punctate on both surfaces, those of the inflorescence 
gradually reduced and linear-bracteate: inflorescence loosely 
and widely paniculate, occupying the upper third of the plant: 
the pedicels and involucre finely pubescent: involucres turbinate, 
the bracts in about five series; the outer short, lanceolate; the 
inner broadly linear, with villous-pubescent setaceous tip, about 
4-striate, sparsely sprinkled with shining resinous particles as 
are also the corolla teeth: disk 10-12™™ high, I 5—25-flowered ; 

