164 BOTANY. 
Luis Valley, Colorado (421), Southern Arizona (772, 462), and Agua 
Azul, New Mexico (124). A polymorphic plant. 
VERBESINA PODOCEPHALA, Gray (Pl. Wright. 2, p. 92).—Erect, 2-3° 
high, hispid, branching from a woody base; leaves serrate, sub-sessile or 
even, rarely slightly decurrent, lanceolate to orbicular, 3-5-nerved, with 
(beneath) veinlets conspicuously netted, beneath glandular hispid, and veins 
and veinlets with stiff, long, white hairs; peduncle 4-8’ long, monocepha- 
lous; scales of involucre in two series, the five outer ovate, roundish, the ten 
inner longer, chartaceous, and acute ; achenia of ray sharply 3-angled 
or winged, slightly toothed on the angles, the inner flattish, with two (or by 
abortion one) stiff awns from the angles; flower 1’ in diameter; rays 
bright sulphur-yellow, oblong, entire or slightly toothed at the apex— 
Chiricahua, Ariz. (517). 3 
Coreopsis TrncTorIA,- Nutt—Ash Creek, Arizona, at 5,000 feet alti- 
tude (317). 
CoREOPSIS CARDAMINEFOLIA, T. & G.—Erect, smooth, slender, almost 
unbranched ; leaves pinnately parted; exterior involucre small; “ achenia 
winged, broadly oval, sometimes with 2 short, subulate teeth”; rays 
3-toothed at the summit, twice as long as the interior involucre—dZuni 
Village, Ariz., at 6,700 feet altitude (157). 
‘THELESPERMA* LONGIPES, Gray (Pl. Wright. 1, 109).—‘“‘Suffrutescent”; 
glabrous, much branched; branches short and leafy; leaves 3—-5-parted; 
segments linear-filiform; peduncles 1° long, almost filiform, terminated by 
a single rayless head; inner series of involucral scales with broad scarious 
margins; outer series small and obtuse; achenium without pappus (merely 
a very small crown-like border), slender, terete or nearly so, and tubercu- 
late-rugose on the back ; chaff not adhering to the cast-off achenia—Camp 
— Ariz. (451). 
ERMA, Less.—Heads heterogamous, radiate; flowers of the ray neutral, in a single series; 
disk-flowers fectite heads often homogamous from the rays being absent. Involucre double, broadly 
campanulate; the inner series of subequal membranaceous scales, which are united more than half-way 
to the summit; the exterior series of a few small bracts. Receptacle flat with many flat scarious palets 
which subtend the —— - — disk. Ray Sowers, when present, ligulate, soteyrnad disk-flowers 
regular, limb broadly ey owly 4-5-cleft. Anthers obtuse at base and entire; 
styles of the disk-flowers saidionspeberuinnt at the apex; terisinated by an acute see ndage. keleate 
linear or linear-oblong, somewhat obcompressed truncate at the apex and erostrate, with two retrorsely 
pectinate-ciliate awns or naked. Sais. when present, yellow; disk sometimes purplish. Achenia 
smooth or tuberenlate.—Bentu. & Hook. 
