CATALOGUE. 167 



rather obtuse, foliaceous, the inner lanceolate, acute ; rays about 15, nearly 

 2' long, 3-5" wide ; pappus unequally 3-8-toothed, one or two teeth often 

 awned. — A coarse, rank-smelling plant ; the root somewhat fleshy, and said 

 to be eaten by the Indians. Rocky Mountains of Washington Territory, to 

 Colorado, (Parry.) Havallah range to the Wahsatch, in rich soil on the hill 

 sides, abundant ; 4,500-8,000 feet elevation ; June, July. (594.) 



Wyethia mollis. Gray. Proc. Amer. Acad. 6. 544. Woolly-tomentose, 

 becoming smoothish ; stems 1-2° high, bearing 1-3 heads ; leaves entire, 

 broadly oblong or oval, the uppermost ovate and sessile, lower cauline and 

 radical petioled, very large, 9-12' long, 3-5' broad ; involucre 1' broad, 

 white-woolly, the outer scales oblong-ovate, slightly exceeding the disk; 

 rays 10-12, 12-15" long, 3-4" broad ; achenia pubescent, linear ; pappus 

 with 2-3 long stout awns. — California, (Brewer ! and Bolander ! ;) Carson 

 City, Nevada, (Anderson ! ;) Mount Davidson, (Bloomer !) 



Balsamoeehiza ^ HooKEEi, Nutt. Canescent or somewhat silky with 

 soft short appressed hairs ; radical leaves ovate -lanceolate in outline, 2-3-pin- 

 natifid with narrow segments ; scapes several, 6-10' high, with a pair of entire 

 or pinnatifid bracts near the base ; heads solitary, 2-2 J' broad ; involucral 

 scales very numerous, lanceolate, acute ; rays 12-18, 2-4-toothed at the 

 end. — Plains of Washington Territory and Oregon; near Carson City, 

 (Anderson, Bloomer.) Foot-hills of the Virginia and Trinity Mountains, 

 Nevada ; 5-6,500 feet elevation ; April, May. (595.) 



Balsamoeehiza hiesuta, Nutt. Scabrous-hirsute ; radical leaves 8-10' 

 long, on petioles half as long and white-woolly at the dilated base, oblong- 

 lanceolate in outline, pinnately cleft into numerous oblong-lanceoiate or some- 

 what cuneate and incised segments; scapes about 1° high, monocephalous, 

 bearing near the base a pair of nearly or quite entire petioled linear-lanceo- 

 late bracts ; heads scarcely 2' broad ; scales of the involucre lanceolate ; 

 chaff of the receptacle much shorter than the flowers. — Oregon, and in the 



1 balsamoeehiza, Hook. Heads many-flowered, radiate ; the raya large, pistillate, - fertile ; 

 disk-flowers numerous, perfect, tubular, 5-toot!ied. Scales of the campanulate involucre imbricated in 

 3-4 or more rows, the outer foliaceous, as long as the disk, inner ones more rigid and passing into the 

 rigid and acute concave chaff of the nearly flat receptacle. Branches of the style of the disk-flowers 

 elongated, filiform, very hispid, of the ray one-half smaller, and nearly or qmte smooth. Achenia ohloiig, 

 quadrangular and striated, or those of the ray flattened ; pappus none. — Coarse perennial herbs, with 

 very large roots full of a balsamic resin, ample entire or pinnately lobed radical leaves, and stems 6'-2° 

 high, bearing 1-3 sunflower-like heads and a few small leaves or bracts. Natives of Western North 

 America. In this genus and in the last, the rays often produce two or three abortive stamens ; the same 

 thing occurs in many other genera. 



