ee of fiieadiole rocks on Stansbury’s Shiu Salt ‘cnr De 
June 26.* 
The lower part of the stem is thick and ligneous, but the branches 
are herbaceous. 
glandular-pubescent. The leaves are scarcely half an 
meter, broadly ovate, or almost orbicular in outline, daa subcor- 
date at the base, with a few coarse, obtuse teeth, or almost lobed ; 
Heads 6-8 lines in diameter. 
or three series lanceolate, acute, glandularly puberulous, some- 
what villous at the tip. Rays 6-10; the limb longer than the 
vate-oblong, compressed, slightly hispid-ciliate on the margin, 
crowned with a single rigid, upwardly scabrous bristle. 
This genus is nearly related to Perityle of Bentham, (Bot. Sulph. 
‘ an p- 23,) but differs in the absence of squamellze on the achenium, 
a and in other characters. 
— Plate VI. Laphamia Stansburii, (Monothriz Stansburiana,) of 
the natural size. Fig. 1, a leaf. Fig. 2, a head of flowers. Fig. 
3, an involucrum laid open, the flowers removed to show the recep- 
* tacle. Fig. 4, the same divided longitudinally. Fig. 5, an inner 
and an outer scale of the involucrum. Fig. 6,-a ray flower. Fig. 
17,.a disk flower. Fig. 8, corolla of the disk flower laid open. Fig. 
. Xe branches of the style and their appendages. 
 Cuyenactis sreviomes, Hook. and Arn.; Torr. and = Fl, 
i Qa p. 371.—Strong’s Knob, Salt Lake, June 10. Several of the 
_ ray flowers have the corolla dilated, but the lobes still nearly 
is Se as is the pappus, considerably shorter than in the 
6 Benwifolia of Nutt. is scarcely distinct from this species. 
a  C. acniiie2Fo.ta, Hook. and Arn.; Torr. and Gray, Fl. 1. e— 
y eile asc June 20, Stems about a span high, several 
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