172 TIIL AMERICAN MIDLAND NATURALIST 



Not mentioned by Small in his Flora, second edition. 



Antelope Hills of the Canadian, Bigelow, according to Greene, I.e. 



Cherokee Nation, Blankinship, August 15, 1875, according 

 to Greene, 1. c. 



Very different from K. LEPT< cephala, and in aspect strongly 

 recalling the Mexican genus Gymnosperma, Greene, 1. c. 



Dr. Greene neglected to fix the type, which was based on my 

 No. 252. 



In a narrow-leaved form from northwestern Arkansas, Harvey, 

 according to Gray in Flora of North America, in eitingthe range 

 of Solidago leptocephala. 1 



First collected by Broadhead. 



This is a species of the high prairies of Missouri, Kansas, 

 Indian Territory and Texas. 2 



1 A plant of the lowlands of Southern Arkansas and Louisiana has 

 been described by Dr. Greene as E- chrysothamnoides. It is a taller plant, 

 more slender, with corymbose inflorescence, longer heads with firm bracts. 

 I have examined the type specimens collected by Letterman, and the species 

 has little affinity with E- graminifolia, to which it has been referred, but is 

 more nearly related to E- gymnospErmoidES. If this is a valid species, and 

 is to be placed in Solidago, I propose Solidago CHRYSOTHAMNOiDEs(Greene) 

 Bush, n. comb, for this species. 



Dr. Small does not mention this species in his Elora, second edition. 



2 An anomalous species of the far West and Northwest, which seems to 

 have no close affinity with any of the known species of Ecthamia, I propose 

 as 



Euthamia bracteata Bush, n. sp. 



Stems 4-6 dm. tall, striate, smooth and glabrous; leaves oblong-lanceo- 

 late, thin, deep green, more or less spreading, very wide, the widest of any 

 species known to me, according to their length, 4-6 cm. long, 6-12 mm. wide, 

 smooth on both faces, minutely serrlnate on the edges all around, 3-nerved, 

 the midvein conspicuous, the lateral nerves indistinct, neither viscid nor 

 punctate; branches, branchlets and pedicles sharply angular, somewhat 

 scabrous; heads mostly pedicelled or 2-3 in sessile capitate clusters, arranged 

 in a dense contracted, rounded corymb, 16-20 flowered, 5-5.5 mm. high; 

 involucre broadly campanulate, its bracts in several series, broadly ovate, 

 thin, yellow, with scarious edges, very conspicuous, minutely ciliolate, 

 rounded at the tips, not viscid nor glutinous; achencs oblong, appressed- 

 pubescent. 



Specimens Examined: 

 Colorado: 



Canon City, T. S. Brandegee 8532,3072, month not given, 1872, 

 TYPE, Herb. No. 75079. This sheet has penciled on it this, "Loiter s s ^ v 



