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recognized. Since A. plantaginifolia has at last been broken up into 
well defined species, this one, which offers excellent points of distinc- 
tion, may be named 
/Antennaria obovata, n. sp.— Stems 30% high: stolons 5—-8™ long, 
with very small leaves and only properly leafy terminally: leaves all 
of firm texture, permanently tomentose on both sides, the tomentum 
even persisting on the dry leaves of the preceding year ; the basal 3™ 
long, 3-ribbed, the prominent midrib continuous to the apex, the two 
lateral ones becoming evanescent toward the margin, the blade obovate- 
cuneate, about 13™" broad, a little longer than the ligulate petiole; 
the terminal ones of the stolons 25"™ long, less distinctly 3-ribbed : 
cauline leaves small, oblong-linear: heads 3-7, corymbosely disposed 
on pedicels 5—20™™ long: involucres sparingly long woolly : bracts 
(pistillate in several series ; the outer short and obtusish ; the inner 
twice as long, narrow, acute to acuminate ; nearly all with a purplish 
spot at the middle: akenes oblong-fusiform, indistinctly 5-angled, 
papillose, 
To what is now considered as 4. Plantaginifolia it bears little resem- 
bance, being perhaps more widely separated from that than any of the 
PP described species of that group. It is from the foothills of Colorado ; 
sai ‘te +. Cowan, near Soldier cafion, June 20, 1895.—ELIAS 
~) sMVersily of Wyoming, Laramie. 
