228 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [MARCH 
ERIOPHYLLUM GRACILE (Hook.) Gray.—This was listed by 
Piper in his Flora of Washington as a synonym of E. integrifolium 
(Hook.) Greene (E. multiflorum |Nutt.] Rydb.). This he apparently 
did simply because no one until now has again collected it since 
Totmie’s original specimens, from somewhere in the Snake River 
country, were secured. MAcBRIDE’S no. 137 seems to perfectly 
represent £. gracile as originally described, and I therefore suggest 
that this name must be retained. 
Carduus magnificus, n. sp.—Biennial, very tall (1-2 m.) and 
strict, moderately stout, or rather slender: stem purplish, often 
strikingly so, strongly striate, moderately pubescent with long 
flat jointed straggling hairs, very leafy: leaves glabrate above, 
tomentose beneath, broadly linear in outline, 1-3 dm. long, the 
bordered midrib 7-15 mm. wide, the rather numerous spinous 
pinnae 12-25 mm. long, 1~-3-lobed or parted, the lobes mostly 
lanceolate or broader: heads few to several, racemosely disposed on 
short branchlets successively shorter to sessile above, 4-6 cm. high 
and broad, subtended by several to many linear purplish foliar bracts 
which often well surpass the heads: involucral bracts numerous, in 
several series, green but sparsely pubescent on the margins; the 
outer with rather weak spines; the inner with elongated, dilated, 
crimped or fringed tips: flowers a rich purple, very numerous and 
slender; corolla tube scarcely as long as the limb which is cleft 
halfway into 5 filiform lobes: styles well exserted: achenes 5-6 
mm. long, narrowly oblong or linear-spatulate, brown, glabrous or 
almost polished, the conspicuous stylophore encircled by a raised 
yellowish white collar-like border: pappus bristles very soft, 
sparsely and delicately plumose except the tips. 
This falls into the section Ecutnats Cass, DC., and the section CARLINOIDES 
of RypBERG’s Colorado list, but it evidently is not closely related to any of 
the species heretofore known. MAcsripkE reports this plant as scattering on a 
wet saline flat near Falk’s Store, Canyon County, Idaho. No 271, June 22, 
1910, is the type. 
UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING 
LARAMIE, WYOMING 
