174 BOTANY. 
with a few leaves, and terminating in a leafless peduncle 2-4 inches long; 
lower leaves 3-nerved, spatulate, tapering into a petiole, upper leaves sessile 
and spatulate, all (as also the stem and involucre) densely silky-pubescent; 
involucral scales thickish.and lanceolate, in 2-3 series, and not longer than 
the disk-flowers; rays about 15, cuneate, 3-lobed, nearly 6” long; hyaline 
scales of the pappus broadly ovate, short-awned, glistening; achenia hairy, 
cuneate-—This beautiful little species was obtained from Santa Fé, N. 
Mex. (5), where it was first detected by Mr. Fendler in 1847. 
ActinrLLA Ricuarpsonu, Nutt—South Park, Colorado (484); also 
from Western New Mexico, Loew. 
ACTINELLA GRANDIFLORA, T. & G.—Several erect branches, 6— 12’ high, 
from the short stem; entire plant more or less densely covered with a long, 
loose wool; lower leaves pinnately or sometimes bipinnately parted, the 
divisions linear; petioles margined with dilated and sheathing bases; invo- 
lucre densely woolly; scales linear, acute, about as long as the hemispherical 
disk; head (including the rays) 14-24’ in diameter; rays oblong or cuneate, 
6-12’’ long. Apex somewhat truncate, 3-toothed or lobed; disk-flower 
lobes rather short and obtuse, glandular-hairy; achenia roughish-hairy, 
with from 6-8 thin, lanceolate, acute pappus-scales—In Colorado, the 
most striking plant blooming at an altitude of 12,000 feet (578). 
ActTINELLA scaposa, Nutt., var. LINEARIS, Nutt.—Perennial, villous or 
cinereous-pubescent; scapes numerous, from a much-branched caudex; 
leaves many, narrowly linear, 2-4’ long and hardly a line wide, glandular- 
dotted petioles expanded into sheathing bases; scapes 4-12’ long, terminat- 
ing in a single head, which, with the rays, is 18” across; scales of the invo- 
lucre in two series, oblong, obtuse and quite villous; rays oval or cuneate, 
oblong, 3-toothed, the tube hairy; achenia pyriform, hairy, of five oblong or 
oval scales, with or without short awns; disk-flowers with almost no tube, 
and an upwardly dilated, gland-dotted limb, the lobes obtuse, short, and 
glandular-hairy; achenia as in the ray, except that the pappus is conspicu 
ously tipped with a bristle-like awn.—-Covero, N. Mex. (104). 
-Acuittea Miniero.ium, L.—Nevada, Utah, Colorado, and Arizona, in 
the pine region of the White Mountains. 
