Part 2, 1915] CARDUACEAE : HELENIEAE 93 



Helenium lanatum Spreng. Syst. 3: 574. 1826. 

 Bahia lanala DC. Prodr. 5: 657. 1836. 



A perennial, with a cespitose base; stems several, about 3 dm. high, loosely tomentose, 

 simple or branched; leaves obovate in outline, loosely white-tomentose on both sides but 

 slightly greener above, pinnatifid with linear or oblong divisions; heads solitary at the ends 

 of the branches; peduncles 5-10 cm. long; involucre hemispheric, 9-10 mm. high, 10-15 mm. 

 broad, white-tomentose; bracts 10-12, acute; ray-flowers as many; ligules bright-yellow, 

 about 10 mm. long and 4 mm. wide; disk-corollas 4 mm. long; tube densely glandular-hispid, 

 much shorter than the puberulent throat; achenes glabrous, 4 mm. long; squamellae obovate, 

 about 0.5 mm. long. 



Type locality: On the high banks of the Kooskoosky. 

 Distribution: Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. 



31. Eriophyllum Cineraria Rydberg, sp. nov. 



A perennial, with a strongly cespitose sufTruticose base; stems decumbent below, about 

 2.5 dm. high, white-tomentose; basal leaves about 2 cm. long, spatulate in outline, petioled, 

 3-5-lobed, densely and permanently white-tomentose beneath, more floccose and greener 

 above; stem-leaves similar but narrower, and with deeper and narrower lanceolate divisions; 

 heads solitary; peduncles 7-10 cm. long; involucre hemispheric, about 8 mm. high and 12 nun. 

 broad, tomentose; bracts 10-12, acute; ray-flowers as many; ligules golden-yellow, about 8 

 mm. long, 3-4 mm. wide; disk-corollas 4 mm. long, glandular-hispid, the short tube densely 

 so; achenes glabrous, 3 mm. long; squamellae about 8, obovate, nearly equal, about 0.5 mm. 

 long. 



Type collected near the mouth of Little Grizzly Creek, below Genessee, Plumas Countv, Cali- 

 fornia, July 15, 1907, Heller & Kennedy 8849 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). 



32. Eriophyllum ternatum Greene, Pittonia 3 : 185 1897. 



Bahia lanala tenuifolia T. & G. Fl. N. Am. 2: 375. 1842. Not Bahia tenuifolia DC. 1836. 

 Eriophyllum Cusickii Eastw. in herb. 



A perennial, with a slender cespitose rootstock or decumbent sufTruticose base; stems 

 3-4 dm. high, slender, finely floccose, usually branched above; leaves white- or yellowish- 

 tomentose beneath, loosely floccose and sometimes glabrate above, the lower oblanceolate in 

 outline, with 3-7 short obtuse lobes; stem-leaves pinnatifid with narrowly linear divisions; 

 heads solitary at the ends of the branches; peduncles 5-10 cm. long, slender; involucre hemi- 

 spheric, 7-8 mm. high, 10-12 mm. broad; bracts about 10, acute; ray-flowers as many; ligules 

 golden- yellow, about 8 mm. long and 4 mm. wide; disk-corollas 2.5-3 mm. long; tube densely 

 glandular-hispid, shorter than the nearly glabrous throat; achenes glabrous, striate; squamellae 

 small, obovate, 0.2-0.5 mm. long. 



Type locality: Street of Ashland. Oregon. 

 Distribution: British Columbia to northern California. 



33. Eriophyllum superbum Rydberg, sp. nov. 



A perennial, with a cespitose rootstock; stems 4 dm. high or more, corymbosely branched 

 above, loosely white-tomentose; lower leaves cuneate-spatulate in outline, deeply 3-lobed, 

 2-4 cm. long, white-tomentose on both sides; stem-leaves deltoid in outline, twice or thrice 

 ternate-phsnatifid into oblong or linear divisions; peduncles 2-5 cm. long; involucre hemispheric, 

 7 mm. high, 10-12 mm. broad; bracts 8-10, acute; ray-flowers of the same number; ligules 

 golden-yellow, about 15 mm. long and 3 mm. wide; disk-corollas scarcely 3 mm. long, glandu- 

 lar-hispid throughout, the short tube densely so; achenes glabrous, 3 mm. long; squamellae mi- 

 nute, obovate, less than 0.2 mm. long. 



Tvpe collected on Higlev's promontory of lake, opposite Quiniault, Washington, July, 1902, 

 Conard 243 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). 



Distribution: Washington and Oregon. 



