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in 3 or 3 series, not very unequal, lance-linear, acute, loosely 

 erect, the herbaceous tips purple-edged : rays many, light rose- 

 purple. 



In large tufts on stony slopes. Crested Butte, southern Col- 

 orado, 13 August, 1901, C. P. Baker, n. 805. A peculiar species 

 the near aflBnities of which it is not easy to name. 



AsTEE QEISEUS. Stems decumbent or ascending, J to li feet 

 high, branching, sparingly villous-hairy ; foliage and bracts 

 pale as if glaucous, but finely strigose-pubescent ; lowest leaves 

 oblanceolate, 3 inches long, the cauline oblong-linear to linear, 

 all obtuse, entire, 1-nerved, ciliate or ciliolate : heads of middle 

 size; involucres broadly campanulate or nearly hemispherical, 

 the bracts imbricated in 3 series, erect, appressed even to the 

 tips, the outer obovate, obtuse, the inner more elongated, 

 acutish, all pubescent and more or less ciliate: rays many, 

 8howy, pale violet. 



The type is a plant collected by myself thirty years since in 

 the Colorado Kooky Mountains west of Denver, on Bear Creek, 

 at Sisty's, the elevation perhaps 9,000 feet. Mr. C. F. Baker's 

 633 from Doyle's southern Colorado, I think the same, though 

 the plants are larger and with herbage even more decidedly 

 gray-green. 



Beachtactis htbeida. a foot high or more, branched 

 from the base and bushy, the root not always annual, the plant 

 apt to propagate by stolons from the crown ; stem and branches 

 pubescent in lines ; leaves spatulate-lanceolate, sessile, entire, 

 scabrous-ciliolate, otherwise glabrous ; involucres campanulate , 

 bracts in about 3 series and equal, all elliptic-lanceolate, the 

 inner narrower, the outer somewhat serrulate-ciliolate ; rays 

 lavender, elongated. 



Common in alkaline soil about Gunnison, Colo., 37 Aug., 

 1901, C. F. Baker, n. 937. The plant is remarkable as a Bra- 

 chyactis for its many long rays, as well as by its apparently per- 

 ennial duration ; otherwise it is at perfect agreement with other 

 members of this well marked genus. The name hybrida is next 

 to meaningless here, and I regret having assigned it, as I did, 

 in the distribution of Mr. Baker's collection. 



