BUPATOaiAOE^. 7 



The real characters of this are here for the first time indi- 

 cated. It is the acutely turbinate involucre of narrow pointed 

 bracts which tells. The species seems to range westward from 

 Georgia into the Indian Territory, and perhaps southern Mis- 

 souri. 



U. SUBCINERA. Stout and rigid, a foot high or more, sub- 

 cinerous-scabroua : leaves large, oblong-lanceolate, entire, some- 

 what undulate, hardly acute, 3 to 5-veined and the lateral veins 

 divergent : cymes short and broad, the branches of it and the 

 pedicels strongly hispidulous, their bracts few, large, leaf -like : 

 involucres large, campanulate, their thick acutish bracts hispid- 

 ciliolate, sulcate on the back, the midvein being at the bottom 

 of a distinct if not deep furrow : rays not large for the plant, 

 evidently ochroleucous or yellow. 



Near Ft. Meade, South Dakota, August and September, 1887, 

 Dr. W. H. Forwood. Genuine U. ptarmicoides is in the collec- 

 tion from the same place, but this broad-leaved thing, pale with 

 a peculiar rough-hairiness, is very distinct. 



Neglected Bupatorlaceous Qenera. 



Respecting the genus which has Eupatorium cannabinum for 

 its type, I have for some years past felt convinced that our 

 verticillate-leaved purple-flowered plants, a group headed by 

 E. purpureum, are its only representatives in America. 



Nearly three years since I proposed the restoration of Cono- 

 clinium as a genus (Pitt. iv. 272), and in the course of the 

 preparation of that paper, among other alterations which I 

 made in my herbarium bundles was that of labelling under the 

 generic name of Osmia such of the species as were found refer- 

 able to that evidently natural genus long ago proposed by 

 Schultze. 



Seeming compelled, in view of its excellent characters, to 

 give the same recognition to the group named Ageratina by 

 Spach (in allusion to the strong likeness of the plants to Agera- 

 tum rather than to genuine Eupatorium), I began a general 

 revision of this genus under the name Kyrstbnia which 

 Necker had assigned it long before the days of Spach. The 

 manuscript has been lying for more than two years unfinished. 



