228 LEAFLETS. 



saliently and rather closely dentate and minutely and ob- 

 scurely villous-ciliolate, otherwise glabrous except as to the 

 mid vein beneath and next the petiole : corymb of about 12 

 heads }i inch high, the terminal one largest and sessile, sub- 

 turbinate, at least under pressure; bracts of involucre linear- 

 oblong but abruptly apiculate, the very tip of the apiculation 

 purple, the whole otherwise light-green, glabrous ; rays rather 

 short but broad, oblong, light yellow. 



Collected somewhere on the Mono Forest Reservation, Cali- 

 fornia, at 6600 feet, 1 July, 1911, by Charles W. Fulton. I 

 name the species in reference to the likeness the plant bears 

 to certain species of the genus Mesadenia. 



Senecio fodinarum. Robust perennial IJ^ feet high, rather 

 amply leafy to the middle, the basal leaves not the largest, 2 

 or 3 inches long, ovate, with short and broad petiole, those 

 next above on the stem twice as long, spatulately tapering 

 from an oval upper part, those midway of the stem as long 

 but spatulate-oblong, all entire, obtuse, almost veinless, 

 arachnoid-wooly marginally, otherwise nearly glabrous ; 

 heads 12 to 16 in a broad compact corymb, each head nearly 

 }/i inch high ; bracts of involucre oblong, abruptly acutish, 

 more or less villous-arachnoid along the prominent midnerve ; 

 rays short and broad, yellow. 



Near Mineral King in the Sierra Nevada of California, 

 Aug., 1891, Coville and Funston, Death Valley Exp. n. 1491. 



