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TowNSENDiA EOEMOSA. Perennial, spreading by short stout 

 stolons, the sterile ones ending in a rosette of leaves, the others 

 in a stout upright very leafy monocephalous stem : basal leaves 

 cuneately to spatnlately obovate, very obtuse, entire, f to IJ 

 inches long, of thin texture, glabrous, except as to the prickly- 

 ciliolate margins, those of the stem crowded and somewhat im- 

 bricated, spatulate-oblong: heads large, 3 inches broad from tip 

 to tip of the broad purple rays : bracts of involucre oblong to 

 lanceolate, thin, broadly scarious-margined. 



In the Black Eange, in the spring or early summer of 1903, 

 0. B. Metcalfe; specimens sent to me under n. 1434. 



Hedboma pulchblla. Dwarf many-stemmed perennial,atvery 

 base suffirutescent, the stems though tufted usually simple, leafy, 

 floriferous from the base, 3 to 5 inches high, all the growing 

 and flowering parts villous-hoary, leaves i inch long, ovate, very 

 acute and sharply few-toothed above the middle, flowers very 

 large for so small a plant, 3 or 3 in each axil ; calyx strongly 

 bilabiate, the slender-subulate teeth and the tube all equally 

 and strongly hirsutulous : corolla lavender-colored, more than i 

 inch long, the tube slender, long-exserted. 



Limestone hills at about 6600 feet near Kingston, 18 May, 

 1905, 0. B. Metcalfe, n. 1599. The most beautiful and large- 

 flowered of dwarf species. 



TJbopappxjs pedinostjs. Annual, stout, low, subacaulescent, 

 6 to 10 inches high: leaves but half the length of the scapi- 

 form peduncles, consisting of a linear rachis and remote nar- 

 rowly linear segments, the whole, and also the lower part of the 

 peduncles more or less hoary with short papilliform and some 

 longer and curled white hairs : fruiting heads barely an inch 

 high : achenes short, subcylindric, tapering but slightly, of only 

 half the length of the pappus, paleae of the latter very deeply 

 bifid, the bristle long in proportion. 



Common winter annual of southwestern N"ew Mexico and 

 adjacent Arizona, hitherto referred to U. linearifolia of the 

 Pacific seaboard ; thoroughly distinct by its short achenes and 

 comparatively long pappus, the achenes not beaked, etc. The 



Leaflets, Vol. I. pp. 213-216. June 5, 1906. 



