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broad, spatulate, densely silky canescent both sides, sub-pe 
olate by the narrowed base, which is broadly dilated, reddish- 
purplish, narrowly linear-spatulate, involute and stiff on drying, 
exceeding the scales; tubular corollas about 5 mm. long, 
equalling or lightly exceeding the pappus, greenish, the lobes 
dark purple; akene oblanceolate, nearly truncate, sparingly 
stiff-hairy ; pappus white, flexuous, finely toothed. 
Songo, Nov. 1890 (913). 
Conyza YUNGASENSIS, sp. п. Canescent, the stem stout, erect or the 
base slightly depressed, about a meter high, strongly and rather 
sharply angled ; leaves sessile and sub-decurrent, the lowest І 
cm. long by 5 cm. broad, spatulate-oblanceolate, sub-petiolate by 
the улы narrowed base, blunt, laciniately coarse-dentate, per- 
haps sometimes lobed, the teeth rounded, apiculate, some of 
them bearing 1 or 2 small teeth, pale below, where the midrib 
cm. broad: akene Ы cds ON pasion at 
the insertion of the long, white pappus 
Yungas, 1890 (202). Very near C. Chilensis, Spreng., but dif- 
fering in the much stouter and more leafy habit, smaller and more 
numerous heads, akene one-half longer, lighter, not truncate at the 
insertion of the pappus, which is longer, more copious and not 
cinnamon-colored. 
Baccharis cassinoides, D. C. Prod. v. 412. Yungas, 1890 (286). 
— Rusby 1570. 
Baccharis heterothalmoides, Britton, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, xix. 4. 
Vic. La Paz, 10,000 ft. 1889 (105). — Rusby 1709. 
Baccharis alpina, H. B, К. var. serpyllifolia (Decne.) Wedd. Chlor. 
And. i. 168 (?) Talca Chugiaguilla, April, 1890 (802). 
In the paucity, length and narrowness of the involucral scales, 
the length of the pappus and the light color of the akene, this 
seems pretty clearly distinct from В. alpina; but until the male 
