Plante Lindheimeriane. 29] 
fusiformibus vix compressis 7—9-nerviis hirtellis coronula 
integra sepius obsoleta superatis. — Margin of woods and 
thickets, in sterile soil, Comale Creek and near New Braun- 
fels (also 628.) April to June. A summer state, very much 
branched and with smaller capituli, was gathered in Western 
Texas by Mr. Wright. The plant has much the aspect of 
Bellis integrifolia, though the heads are rather smaller, and it 
branches diffusely in the same way, the branches terminated 
by single capituli. — The type of the genus Keerlia must be 
K. ramosa, D C., a Mexican plant collected by Keerl himself, 
and with which the present plant appears to be a true con- 
gener. K. linearifolia, DC. is thought to have yellow rays, 
which leaves its position doubtful. K. skirrobasis, DC., and 
of Delessert's as well as of Hooker's figure, is doubtless Leu- 
copsidium  Arkansanum, D C., the Egletes Arkansana, Nutt., 
as I have already remarked in Proceed. Amer. Acad. l. c., 
and in Plante Fendleriane, p. 11. The genus, as it thus 
stands, takes the place in this country of Brachycome, from 
Which, as well as from Bellis, it is well distinguished by its flat 
receptacle. Mr. Lindheimer's recent collection enables us to 
add another Texan species, of a peculiar aspect, and vespa 
able for its fewer-flowered heads, its flattened ray 
and entirely sterile disk, viz. 
! An amended character of the genus is subjoined : — 
KEERLIA, DC. Prodr. 5. p. 309. d tU... 
Capitulum multiflorum radiatum ; ligulis 6 - 25 uniserialibus fcemineis ; 
fl. disci 
herm: rmaphroditis vel abortu makaia 5-dentatis. Involucrum campanulatum aut 
urbinatum, — is obloi mucronatis vel acuminatis mar- 
i - pluriseriale ; 
gine late Achenia subteretia vel com- 
pressa, disci omnia aut centralia sepe inania. Pappus parvus coroniformis. 
; foliis alternis sessilibus inte- 
— Herbs Mexicanæ et Texanæ, hu b. miles, ramosæ 
gris ; capitulis parvulis solitariis vel paniculatis ; ligulis albis vel cæru 
Achenia subteretia, fusiformia vel obpyramidata, nervosa: 
pendice brevi obtusa mr enin Caules dichotome ramosi, 
cepbalis, capitulis mu 
ex K. sania te DC. 9. K. ROM Gray §& Engelm. supra. ?K. 
d a. disci ap- 
is mono- 
ET pues m plano-compressa cio magit, di omnia inania gra- 
JOURNAL B. LI - 1880. 
