214 LEAFLETS. 



Erigeron lavandulaceus. liow perennial, the not nu- 

 merous branches basal, at first decumbent, then ascending, 

 the whole 5 to 7 inches high and cinereous with a dense and 

 rather soft strigose indument : leaves rather firm, the basal 

 seldom an inch long, of rounded entire blade and well defined 

 petiole of equal length, those next above cuneate-obovate, the 

 proper cauline and rameal oblong-oblanceolate, abruptly acut- 

 ish ; pedunculiform monocephalous branches naked for 2 

 inches or more : heads of the usual size for the group ; in- 

 volucres rather broad and low, sparsely hirsute, the bracts 

 very many, equal, merely acute; rays excessively numerous 

 and narrow, not long, of a fine lavender-blue : pappus bristles 

 very delicate, the squamellae minute or obsolete. 



Gardenville, Nevada, 15 June, 1902, C. F. Baker, his n. 

 1085, distributed as £. divergens. With its deep lavender 

 rays and graceful habit, this is one of the few members of its 

 group that may be called beautiful. 



Erigeron dicladus. Perennial but with perfectly simple 

 caudex producing annually 2 or sometimes 3 wand like stems 

 a foot high or less, these very slender and monocephalous, 

 the branchlets all leafy, sterile, curving outwards ; whole 

 plant pale with a dense pubescence which under a lens is 

 wholly hispidulous : basal leaves gone at flowering time, only 

 their dilated, hispidulous and ciliate petiolar part remaining ; 

 cauline oblanceolate, but narrowly so, and an inch long, those 

 of the branchlets much reduced and linear, the long pedunc- 

 uliform ends of the branches naked ; heads of the size usual 

 in the group ; involucral bracts equal and biserial, except as 

 to several much shorter which subtend the rest, the pubes- 

 cence not dense, hispid-hirsute : rays white : receptacle almost 

 flat : outer pappus of the achenes not scanty but minute, ap- 

 parently slender-subulate. 



Collected at 6600 feet in the mountains near Kingston, 

 New Mexico, 9 June, 1904, by O. B. Metcalfe, wrongly re- 

 ferred by me to E. cinereus. Though the few branches are 



