290 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [APRIL 
sepal: sepals 4, oblong-ovate, obtuse, 3™™ long; corolla purple, 
glabrous, g™™ across, the three larger divisions orbicular, entire, 
4™™ in diameter, the smallest ovate-obtuse, 3™™ wide; stamens 
exserted, 4™™ long, filiform, anthers obtuse and obtusely sagit- 
tate at base, 1.5™™ long; stig- 
ma exserted from the opening 
bud, obscurely bilobed, style 
7mm long, filiform at base, 
flattening and slightly broad- 
ening towards the apex: cap- 
sules becoming almost twice 
as long as the calyx divi- 
sions, broadly oblong, 5™™ 
long, 3.5™™ wide, emarginate, 
the lobes and sinus obtuse; 
style persistent.—FIGc. 2. 
This was collected on Mount 
Eddy at an elevation of 2500™ by 
Dr. Edwin Bingham Copeland, 
August 18, 1903, distribution of 
C. E. Baker, 1903. no. 3931. It is 
near to V. Cusickii Gray, differing 
in pubescence, shape of leaves and 
sepals, and a larger and more open- 
spreading corolla. 
v Erigeron decumbens, n. sp. 
—Stems several, from slender 
creeping rootstocks, decumb- 
ent or ascending, 1-1.5™ 
high, scabrous and somewhat 
canescent with short appressed hairs which are glandular at base 
(under a lens): leaves oblanceolate to spatulate, sessile, obtuse, 
apparently veinless, 5-15™™ long, 3-5™™ wide, with pubescence 
similar to the stems: heads few, rayless, 7™™ high, terminating short 
branchlets, which are leafy near the junction with the stem and 
have a few scattered minute bracts on the upper part; scales of the 
involucre in four series, glandular-puberulent, outer ones small, 
reflexed-spreading, inner green-tipped, ribbed, membranous at base, 
FIG. 2.—Veronica Copelandi Eastw. 
