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Leaves densely tomentose beneath. 
Leaves oblong, rounded at base, 2-4 cm. wide. 
E. tomentosa. 
Leaves narrowly elliptic, tapering at the base. 
. £. tarchonanthifolia. 
Leaves glabrous or sparsely hairy below. 
Leaves ovate, 3 cm. elas or more. 
Leaves elliptic, 2 les: 
eaves eens beneath ; eee light-brown ; scales glabrous 
at the ti 6. E. leiophylla . 
Leaves pubescent beneath, especially in the axils of the veins ; 
involucre purplish ; scales more or less tomentose at the tip. 
£, salicifolta 
** Heads 3- pulbene inner scales deciduous. 
Leaves pilose on the veins bene 8. £. barbinervis. 
Leaves densely tomentose beneat! te 
Scales densely tomentose, greenish or gray. 
Achenes light-brown 
Achenes Gan earn or nearly black. 
Scales nearly glabrous, purplish. 
Scales glabrous above, tomentose at the base. 12. £. purpurascens, 
Leaves glabrous or thinly pubescent beneath. 
Leaves 2.5 cm. wide or less 
Leaves 4 cm. wide or more. 4. 
*** Heads 5-flowered. 15. £. cease 
5. £. Steetzii. 
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1. Eremosis foliosa (Benth.) nom. nov. 
Monosis foltosa Benth. Pl. Hartweg. 19. 1839. 
Vernonia foliosa Sch.-Bip. Pollichia 18-19: 161. 1861. Not 
V. ase Gardn. 1846. 
Low shrub; branches finely tomentose, becoming glabrate with 
— jee broadly ovate or elliptic-ovate, 4-7 cm 
m. wide, abruptly short-acuminate, entire or with a few scattered 
ea acute to subcordate at base, thinly tomentose on both sides 
or becoming glabrous above; involucre 5 mm. high; outer scales 
short, triangular-ovate, thinly tomentose, the inner lanceolate, 
glabrous or puberulent, purple, tipped with a mucro 0.5 mm. 
long; achenes villous; pappus white, the inner series 7-8 mm. 
Type locality: ‘*to the north of the town of Mexico.” 
Distribution: central and southern Mexico. 
2. Eremosis pallens (Sch.-Bip.) nom. nov. 
Vernonta pallens Sch.-Bip. Pollichia 18-19: 161. 1861. 
by, with terete or faintly striate glabrous branches; leaves 
numerous, elliptic, entire, acute at both ends, glabrous on both sides, 
