194 LEAFLETS. 



Study western botany. Still, there is much more waiting to be 

 done ; and those species now proposed are but a continuation, 

 not a conclusion of the task. I take up first in order things 

 that have been passing for E. glabellus, macranthus and salsu- 

 ginosus. 



Erigeron patens. Perennial, stout, rigid, upright, 2 feet 

 high, equably leafy to near the summit, there parted into 

 many long leafy monocephalous branches to form an ample 

 paniculate-corymbose inflorescence : all the foliage remarkably 

 hard and rigid, glabrous except marginally and along the 

 veins : basal leaves not seen, those of the main stem 2y4 inches 

 long, widely spreading or even notably deflexed, closely ses- 

 sile by a broad base, very acute at apex, the general outline 

 elliptic-lanceolate, strongly scabrous-ciliolate, with some simi- 

 lar short stiff hairs along the veins beneath ; leaves of the 

 branches half as large, somewhat ovate, acuminate, bristly- 

 ciliate and, like the branches, densely gland ular-puberulent: 

 involucres J^ inch high, % inch broad, their bracts not notably 

 unequal, wholly herbaceous, caudately acuminate, purplish 

 and granular-viscid : rays very many, long and shiny, of a 

 rather light purple : achenes strigulous ; inner pappus of 

 quite firm bristles, the outer of fewer short and stout ones not 

 clearly squamiform. 



Type in U. S. Herb., collected by D. T. McDougal in slop- 

 ing pine woods of Strawberry Valley, near Pine, central 

 Arizona, 29 Aug., 1891. A poorer specimen of what is essen- 

 tially the same, though not as much roughened, is at hand 

 from near Flagstaff, Ariz., by M. E. Jones, 6 Aug., 1884. 



Erigeron foliosissimus. Allied, like the preceding, to 

 E. macranthus, equally, and even more densely leafy to sum- 

 mit, but little more than a foot high, the tuft of basal 'leaves 

 all fresh and conspicuous at time of flowering, oblong-oval, 

 lYz to 2}^ inches long, including the short and very distinct 

 petiole, obtuse, entire, rather pale-green, faintly nerved, every- 



