Pe tee iM Ret ara 
352 DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES 
lanceolate; pappus scales obtuse, with or without a single subulate awn; ache- 
nium grooved, hirsute at the summit; stigma slender. 
Has. In the Kamas plains, near Flat-Head River, towards the sources of the Columbia, and in 
the plains-near the Blue Mountains of Oregon. About a span high. Stem simple, one-flowered, 
smooth below, almost lanuginous at summit; sepals lanuginous and ciliate on and near the margin. 
Scales of the receptacle lanceolate, hirsute, pungent, nearly the length of the discal florets, some- 
times with a short tooth on either side. Achenium angular, but so much grooved as to appear 
nearly terete. Pappus variable, the multifid crown pubescent, of eight or ten unequal segments, 
always present; in others there is, besides, on one of the angles, a slender awn. Rays eighteen 
to twenty, entire, pale yellow, with infertile filaments. 
Wyethia * angustifolia; very dwarf, softly pubescent; stem one-flowered ; 
sepals pilose, ciliate, the outer broadest, lanceolate; leaves spathulate or spathu- 
late-lanceolate, entire; pappus scales acute, lacerate, with a single awn at one 
of the angles; achenium quadrangular, nearly even, smooth; stigma very long, 
flat and revolute. Alarconia angustifolia; DEcanp. l. c. 
Has. Round Monterrey, Upper California. A dwarf species like the last, with a dispropor- 
tionately large capitulum; the rays deep yellow, about twelve, distinctly three-toothed, with fila- 
ments of stamens. Stigmas remarkable for their length, ligulate, enjogth above, hirsute below 
with golden hair. Radial floret contracted at base. About a span high, lower part of the stem, 
near its base, — 
— Wyethia ‘epbbasia? somewhat scabrous and pubescent, pestichiatyy the base 
of the stem, which is one-flowered; leaves all lanceolate, acute, radical subser- 
rate, stem leaves sessile; sepals nearly all equal, lanceolate or Jinear-lanceolate, 
acute; achenium quadrangular, nearly even, with one to four unequal awns; 
stigma long and flat. : 
Has. Plains of the Oregon, near the confluence of the Wahlamet, common, in wet places. 
Flowering in June. Eighteen inches to two fect high; always with a single flower. Radical 
leaves a foot long, attenuatedy and very hairy on the petiole, as well as more or less so on the 
mid-rib, nearly entire, OF r ularly serrate, acute. Rays twelve to eighteen, twice as long as the 
sk, and exceedingly like. that of an Helianthus. Achenium sharply quadrangular, even, except 
a groove on one side, slightly pubescent at the summit; crown of pappus in eight or ten divisions, 
lacerate, often presenting from one to four awns, sic but not all of them on the angles, Re- 
ceptacle convex. 
Wyethia amplezicaulis; smooth, shining, and sneak glutinous; leaves 
lanceolate, acute, entire or subserrulate, cauline ones amplexicaule; stem three 
to five-flowered, flowers — and terminal, pedunculate; sepals broad ovate ; 
