64 ' BOTANICAL GAZETTE [yuLy 
in the axils: involucral bracts narrowly linear, acute, midrib green 
and the margins scarious: rays 15-25, orange-yellow, ligule 12-15™™ 
long; disk corollas numerous, with very slender tube which is shorter 
than the narrowly tubular throat; teeth short, lanceolate, erect: 
pappus dingy, equaling the corolla: akene short-linear, minutely 
silky-pubescent. 
This is probably to be compared with C. alpicola Rydb. and C. Bakeri Greene, 
but it is far more silky-hirsute than either. It seems to be unique in the axillary 
heads, which though usually aborted can be detected in the axils nearly down to 
the base of the stems. 
Cooper’s no. 50, Long’s Peak, near timber line is the type; August 11, 1904. 
CHRYSOPSIS ALPICOLA glomerata, n. var.—Closely resembling 
the species and like it nearly devoid of basal leaves at anthesis: heads 
several, closely glomerate at the summit of the simple stems. 
Founded on Cooper’s no. 174, Estes Park, August, 1904. 
Aster Cordineri, n. sp—Spreading by horizontal rootstocks, dark 
green and seemingly glabrous to the unaided eye, under a lens minutely 
but very sparsely scabrous (mostly on the margins of leaves and 
involucral bracts): stems 3-64™ long, generally simple below, race- 
mosely short-branched above, decumbent at base and either widely 
spreading or nearly erect, often puberulent especially upward, very 
leafy: leaves broadly linear, crowded, spinulose tipped; primary ones — 
4-7°™ long, 4-6™™ broad; secondary ones similar but smaller, more 
or less fascicled in the axils: heads solitary at the ends of the short — 
leafy axillary racemosely disposed branchlets, rather large: involucre — 
nearly 1°™ high, somewhat broader than high; bracts erect, glabrate, 
dark green on the spatulate-linear blade, lighter at base, spinulose 
tipped: rays 20-30, bluish shading to white: pappus rather coarse — 
and dingy: akene short-pubescent. 
A very characteristic species related to A. commutatus. Readily distinguished z 
pearance and the relatively few large solitary heads. _ 
racemose, only 3-5°™ long, and those on the stems, — 
» are assurgent and therefore secund in appearance. 
Sweetwater, Sept. 5, 1894, 
astic field assistant; the 
Aug. 11, 1904. 
5 Mr, Cordiner was accidentally killed in 1 
he was assisting. I name this plant in m 
by Mr. George Cordiner, the writer’s first enthusi- 
emory of a young life of great promise. 
The first was secured at Myersville, Wyo., on the — 
second is Cooper’s no. 151 (type) from Estes Park, : 
895 by a falling wall at a fire where : 
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