MISCEI<I.ANEOUS SPECIFIC TYPES. — II. 87 



abruptly tapering below to the short petiole, at apex very 

 obtuse, the margins either almost entire or with a few remote 

 but salient straight teeth : branches of cymose panicle sparsely 

 and shortly hispid with dark hairs : heads 20 or more, about 

 Vs inch high ; bracts of involucre oblong-linear, obtusish, 

 glandular and pubescent on the back, at summit ending in a 

 simple or else deeply forked (and appearing double) stout 

 bristly hair. 



Wet meadows in eastern Oregon, W. C. Cusick, 1884. 



CrEpis obtusissima. Acaulescent, l}i feet high, with 

 thin deep-green foliage very ample, glabrous above, beneath 

 sparsely somewhat pappilose-scabrous ; leaves 4 to 8 inches 

 long, with blades broadly oval to broadly oblanceolate, very 

 obtuse, narrowed abruptly to short broad petioles, the sides 

 conspicuously and coarsely runcinate-toothed : heads smallish, 

 15 to 20 in a strongly corymbose panicle ; involucres nearly 

 cylindric, Vs inch high, their some 20 bracts broadly linear, 

 scarcely acute, sparsely viscid-villous with short appressed 

 white hairs. 



EUensburg, Washington, 20 June, 1897, Kirk Whited ; his 

 n. 420 as in U. S. Herb. 



LiTHOPHRAGMA ANEMONoiDES. Stems stout for the genus 

 and not tall, 5 to 10 inches high arising from a cluster of 

 fibrous roots and many granular bulblets or tubers an inch 

 below the surface of the ground ; both basal leaves and the 

 one or two cauline remarkably ample, quinately divided and 

 with broad rounded abruptly acutish segments : pubescence of 

 leaves, both superficial and marginal, short, subsetaceous, the 

 longer hairs somewhat flattened, the shorter gland-tipped, that 

 of the stem minute, spreading, glandular-setulose : raceme 

 very short, of few large flowers : calyx densely setose, its tube 

 turbinate, cohering with the ovary, segments ovate-trigonous, 

 acute ; petals large, flabelliform, deeply trifid, pinkish. 



On dry hills under bushes at Klamath Falls, southern 

 Oregon, 28 April, 1907, E. I. Applegate. Allied to/,, parvi- 



