234 AMERICAN MIDLAND NATURALIST. 
vel nonnihil turbinata, viscida, summa in 3-4 capitulorum 
2-4 mm. wide, on the branches 1.5-2 em. long, 1 mm. wide, 
minutely punctate, with ciliolate margins and pointed upper 
ends, their color being a deep green, with a yellow tint. 
cyme, or the peripheral branches perhaps not reaching exactly | 
as high up as the central ones. Involucres 4.5-5 mm. high, © 
cylindrical or somewhat turbinate (becoming so the more in. 
duncled. Involucral bracts in 3-4 series, broadly lanceolate 
green or pale with green tips, blunt or pointed. Flowers v x 
ing from a light yellow to a deep yellow color. Rays 4-6, disk- 
qd ds 3-5, there being usually more rays than disk-flower 
in a head. [^ 
This species belongs to the same group as G. diversi/ 
m G. scoparia is larger, having stems often 4 dm. in length, anc 
: fe its involucres are over 5 mm. long and oblong-turl inate. 
