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but by inference from the shortness of the broad heads, little 

 elongated and shortly if at all beaked. 



Ivargest of the genus as far as known, and from near Ellens- 

 burg, Washington, 17 June, 1897, by Kirk Whited ; his n. 

 507 as in U. S. Herb. By the much imbricated and slender 

 involucral bracts the plant recalls the genus Scorzonella. 



Agoseris lanulosa. I/Ow perennial with branching cau- 

 dex above a deep-seated taproot ; scapes rather slender, 2 to 4 

 inches high ; foliage half as long or less, inclined to be 

 depressed, the whole plant pale as with bloom and almost 

 canescent with a thin coat of fine downy-looking tomentel- 

 lous pubescence : leaves oblong and lance-oblong, acutish, 

 mostly entire, some with a few short salient teeth, some 

 retrose, others falcately ascending : involucres many-flowered, 

 not small for the plant, nearly ^ inch high, their bracts 

 rather definitely in 3 series, the outermost ovate, the middle 

 oval, the inner narrowly lanceolate, all except the inner finely 

 tomentellous, most strongly so on the margin : achenes, 

 slender-fusiform, their stout hollow beak of nearly half the 

 length of the body; pappus uncommonly short. 



Kittitas Co., Washington, J. S. Cotton, his n. 1752 as in 

 U. S. Herb. No special part of the county is named. The 

 plant is evidently subalpine in the mountains there. 



Agoseris vestita. Stout low subalpine perennial, older 

 plants with branching caudex, the branches covered below 

 with a scaly coat of old leaf -bases, the stout scapes 2 to 6 

 inches high and of about twice the height of the foliage, the 

 herbage merely glaucescent underneath a thin coat of tomen- 

 tellous pubescence : leaves elongated-oblong, most of them 

 entire or but obscurely denticulate, a few with several salient 

 triangular teeth : involucres broad, V\ inch high, the bracts 

 broad and much imbricated, the outer ovate, acute, the very 

 innermost series broadly lanceolate, all much obscured by 

 a dense woolly tomentum most copious on and along the 

 margins, thinner on the back of the bracts : achenes short, 



