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serrate or crenate, hiapid-ciliolate : head 3 inches broad includ- 

 ing the large rays and equally long spreading outer bracts of 

 the involucre : pappus soft and delicate, of 2 long awns and 

 several intervening squamellae, all aristate-pointed and villous. 



Black Kange, New Mexico, 0. B. Metcalfe, n. 1435. 



BiDBKS COGNATA. Allied to B. heterosperma but stout and 

 low, the heads twice or thrice as large; stem and branches 

 sparsely hirtellous. the involucral bracts more obviously and 

 densely so : achenes all 2-awned, the short outer ones glab- 

 rous and sparsely muriculate, the long and slender inner ones 

 with a few minute appressed-spinulose hairs. 



Black Eange, New Mexico, at 9,500 feet, 30 Sept. 1904, 0. B. 

 Metcalfe, n. 1436. 



Laciniaeia bormosa. Stout, erect, 2 feet high, leafy up to 

 the short dense subpyramidal raceme of large campanulate heads : 

 leaves thin, hispid-ciliolate, otherwise glabrous, all except the 

 uppermost lanceolate, acute, the upper linear-lanceolate : upper 

 part of stem pubescent in lines, the rachis and peduncles his- 

 pidulous : outer bracts of involucre obovate, or spatulate-obo- 

 vate, inner spatulate-oblong, all obtuse, green-herbaceous and 

 punctate except as to the narrow margin, this dark purple, 

 erose to lacerate-dentate : achenes hirtellous along the ribs ; 

 pappus subplumose. 



A few plants in a meadow at Jack's Cabin, Colo., 26 July, 

 1901, C. F. Baker, n. 610. DifEers from its analogue in north- 

 ern Colorado and Wyoming by its thin glabrous foliage and 

 more enlarged as well as more compact inflorescence. 



CoLEOSANTHUS AXILLARIS. Suffrutesceut, bushy, 2 or 3 

 feet high, branches of the season whitish, scabro-puberulent, 

 very leafy throughout: leaves thinnish, deltoid and crenate, 1} 

 to 2 inches long, rather broader at base, vivid green above, 

 scaberulous on the veins, underneath^ scaberulous and pellucid!- 

 glandular superficially, the veins muricate-scabrous, petioles 

 i to i inch long : axils with short and slender leafy-bracted 

 twigs each with 3 to 6 nodding heads, the whole cluster from 

 half the length of the leaves in the lowest to little exceeding 



