

1901] ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANTS 403 
corolla ochroleucous or shading to brown, slender, tubular; 
akene linear, finely about 2o0-striate, only a little shorter than 
the white finely plumose pappus. 
No western species of Kuhnia have heretofore been described. They 
occur but rarely, but at least two good species seem to belong to the eastern 
Rocky mountains. This species now proposed is one of the strongest of 
these, and differs so radically in habit, to say nothing of the other characters, 
that it seems unnecessary to call attention to the points of divergence from 
the well known species. 
It was secured by Mr. Leslie Goodding, to whom it is dedicated, in a 
mountain valley, West Dry creek, Larimer county, Colorado, where it 
occurred in the greatest abundance, usually in stony places, but with the 
tufted stems and woody caudex imbedded in low mounds of loose drifting 
soil. The type number is 
Kuhnia Hitchcocki, n. sp.— Tufted-suffrutescent, the lignes- 
cent stems decumbent-spreading, each divaricately branched 
from the base up, dark in hue but minutely puberulent as are 
also the leaves: stem leaves mostly wanting (or if but little 
branched, very numerous), nearly linear, with a few sharp teeth, 
3-4™ long; those of the rigid branches numerous, small, linear, 
aoa long: passing into the bractlets: involucre usually sub- 
tended by a few linear bractlets, its bracts in about 5 series, the 
short outer ones broadly lanceolate, the inner broadly linear 
with thin scarious margins and cuspidate apex: disk corollas 
20-30, the tube nearly uniform: akenes small, about Io-striate, 
Shorter than the dull-white to tawny distinctly plumose 
pappus. 
This species seems to belong to the arid plains east of the Rocky moun- 
tains. It has been frequently collected by Professor A. S. Hitchcock (to 
whom I am pleased to dedicate the species) in several of the counties of 
Kansas. Among the large series of specimens that his courtesy has enabled 
me to examine, the following may be named as typical: 211a, Meade county, | 
September 1897; Edwards county, September 1897; Stafford county, Sep~_ 
tember 1897; Clark county, August 1896; Kiowa county, August 1896; 
Barton county, August 1895. 
Kuhnia reticulata, n. sp.—Caudex woody: stems several or 
many, ascending, 3-4 high, simple, light green, finely puberu- 
lent: leaves light’ green, appearing glabrous but puberulent on 
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