_ With loose cottony wool: stems branched from ab 
i glabrous : style tips almost truncate : anther appendage 
1899] NEW SPECIES OF WESTERN PLANTS 449 
white, of numerous bristles nearly as long as the corolla: akenes 
short, hirsute. 
Near Dawson, Northwest Territory, Fohn MacLean, in 1808. 
This plant is nearest A. stenophyllus Gray, but is easily distinguished 
from it by the more condensed habit and the short acute ciliate leaves. 
Exiophyllum aureum, n. sp.— Annual, whitened with close 
cottony wool, much branched from the base, the usually simple, 
monocephalous stems 4™ high, leafy : cauline leaves 5-8™™ long, 
alternate, oblong-spatulate, obtuse, narrowed at the base; rad- 
ical ones broader and sometimes slightly lobed: heads barely 
exceeding the leaves, 6™ high, forty to fifty-flowered : involucre 
of about ten narrowly ovate acuminate separate scales: flowers 
golden yellow; the rays oblong, with a truncate retuse very 
slightly five or six-lobed tip; disk flowers equalling the involucre, 
funnel-form, bullate-rugose; style tips conical; appendages of 
the anthers narrowly linear or subulate: pappus a crown of about 
six very minute denticulate scales of different widths: akenes 
linear-clavate, nearly smooth : receptacle convex, the height 
about twice the width, smooth. 
Lone Pine, California, 7. S. Brandegee, April 16, 18gQI. 
th the very white 
The numerous golden-yellow flowers contrasting wi 
herical tufts make 
Cottony stems and leaves, and the habit of forming hemisp 
itis a very showy species. 
Eriophyllum Congdoni, n. sp.— Annual, 1-2™ high, whitened 
out the middle, 
Monocephalous: lower leaves few, spatulate, sometimes two OF 
three-toothed above, attenuate into a petiole; upper Leaves: 
Mostly entire, sessile, lanceolate-spatulate : heads 7-10™ high, 
forty to fifty-flowered, on peduncles 4-5™ long: involucre of 
“ight or nine oblong-acuminate distinct scales, thickened at the 
‘enter and base : rays yellow, about eight, broadly elliptical, 
*ntire or slightly retuse at tip: disk corollas equalling the invo- 
luctes, funnel-form with a rather long cylindrical tube, nearly 
s broadly 
