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This varies greatly in foliage, etc. The following are some of tlie numbers untTor which it is 

 distributed in Bcrlandier's collection: 2061, 1787, 1074, 2504, 3168, 1888, 1077, 2507. 



Bellis INTEGRIFOLIA, Miclix. Low places on the Pecos, Limx)io, etc.; Bigelow, Wright. The 

 minute hairs on the achenium are glochidiate. 



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de. All three of 



Wrightit 



Between Babocoraori and Santa Cruz 



Sonora ; Wright, Cobre ; New Mexico, Bigeloic, 



GuTiERREziA GYMNOSPERMOIDES; Gray^ I. 0. Low banks of the San Pedro^ Sonora ; Wright, 

 Santa Maria^ Chihuabuaj Thurher, — Lower leaves often pinnatifid. 



GuTiERREZiA spn^EROCEPHALA, Gray^ PL Fendl p. 73, d: PL Wright^ L c. From Indianola, 

 Texas, to Cobre, New Mexico, and Chihuahua. 



GuTiERREZiA ERiocARPA, Gray, PL Wright, l,p. 94. Along the Rio Grande, Often con- 

 founded with G. spha3rocephala^ and probably not really different. 



GuTiERREZiA MICROCEPHALA, Gi^ay^ L c. Comuion on the frontiers, and in Texas near the coast. 



GuTiERREziA EuTHAMLE, Torr. (t Gray^ FL 2, p. 123. Common in New Mexico, on the Kio 

 Grande below El Paso, and in the northern parts of Chihuahua and Sonora. G. divaricata is 

 only a loosely flowered variety of this, to which many of our specimens would be referred, 



GUTIERREZIA Texana, Torr. & Gray J L c. Common in the middle district of Texas. 



Torr, cfe Gray. L c. Eastern Texas : Thitrber. 



MOLLIS 



PL Wright, 2, p. 79. 8 



incana, Torr. & Gray, FL 

 her, BigeloiOy Wright, Par 



widely distributed species. 



New 



The plant runs into S. nemoralis, and must be appended to that 



Solidago Eadula, NutL Southern Texas ; Parry. Includes S. rotundifolia, DG. and S. 



scaberrima, Torr. (& Gray. 



lit. in Torr. ^ Gray, L c. Common on the banks of the Mimbres, 

 New Mexico ; Wrighty Bigelow. San Luis Key, California ; Parry. 



Solidago petiolaris, Ait.; Torr. & Gray^ L c. Cobre, New Mexico, etc. 



Solidago eloxgata, Nutt.; Torr. d: Gray, L c. California ; Schott. New Mexico ; Bigelow. 



Solidago Californica, NutL; Torr. & Gray, L c. Mountains east of San Diego; Parry, etc. 

 Mr. Thurber gathered a Solidago, which may be a vaiiety of this, in Chihuahua. 



Solidago Canadensis, Lirm. var. procera, Torr. & Gray, FL Cobre, etc., New Mexico; 



Bigeloto. 



LixosYRLS arborescens, (sp. nov.) : glabra, viscidula ; caule 10-pedali lignosa ; rarais apice 

 corymboso-polycephalis ; foliis anguste linearibus acutis, ramulorum subulatis ; involucro 

 pauciseriali disco breviore 20-25 -floro, squamis lanceolatis acutis carinatis margine scarioso- 

 ciliolatis ; appendicibus styli lanceolato-subulatis portionem stigmatiferum fequantibus ; 

 acheniis brevibus turgidis pubescentibus. — California ; Rev. Mr. Fitch. The flowering branch- 

 lets in Mr. Fitch's collection are stated to belong to '^a tree 10 feet high/' They are slender 

 and very leafy; the leaves are one or two inches in length, about a line wide, much like those 

 of L. vulgaris, only a little viscid. Corymb crowded. Heads three lines long ; the flowers 

 all tubular, but occasionally a marginal one shows a tendency to become irregular, and to have 



its anthers abortive. Receptacle alveolate and toothed. Achenia all fertile, short-oblong, 



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