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‘appressa in medio dorsi laxe hispido-pilosa sicca margine scariosa 
in costa viridia basi obscure rubescentia. Flor. fem. ca. 56 ca. 3- 
4-seriati; corolla albida tubulosa apice oblique 2-3-denticulata 
2mm. longa, stylo 3mm. longo valde exserto; achenia brunnea 
valde compressa in margine nervosa sparse appresse pubescentia 
1mm. longa; pappus exiguus 1-seriatus 2.2 mm. longus. Flor. 
hermaph. ca. 6; corolla 3 mm. longa tubo tenui ad 2mm. longo, 
faucibus lutescentibus infundibularibus 5-dentatis, dentibus ob- 
longo-ovatis acutiusculis ad 0.7 mm. longis. — VENEZUELA: Pa- 
ramo de Mucuchiee (Mucuchies), Oct., Moritz 1404 in part (TYPE: 
hb. Berol.) — Labelled as a Gnaphaliwm in the Berlin Herbarium. 
The species is named from its great resemblance to Erigeron sub- 
spicatus Benth., a resemblance so close that except in the technical 
characters of the head the two species can scarcely be distinguished. 
ConyzA SOPHIAEFOLIA HBK. Nov. Gen. iv. 72, t. 326 (1820). — 
C. Coulteri Gray var. tenuisecta Gray ! Syn. Fl. 1. pt. 2, 221 (1884). 
Eschenbachia tenuisecta (Gray) Woot. & Standl. Contr. U.S. Nat. 
Herb. xvi. 186 (1913). — Gray’s var. tenuzsecta of Conyza Coulter 
is, as Wooton & Standley have well pointed out, sufficiently dis- 
tinct from C. Coulteri, but they have overlooked its identity with 
C. sophiaefolia HBK.., a fact long ago suspected by Dr. Gray, who 
has marked on his type sheet “ an C. sophiaefolia.” 
PoLYMNIA MACULATA Cav. Icon. iii. 14, t. 227 (“ 1794” = 1795). 
The rather extensive material of this species in the Gray Herbarium 
can be divided by characters of pubescence into three groups, quite 
distinct in their extremes but connected by intergradient speci- 
mens in such a way that they are best ranked as varieties. 
Var. vulgaris. Rami hispido-pilosi et sparse glandtlosi. Folia 
subtus viridia subdense vel subsparse hispido-pilosula et -pilosa. — 
Vera Cruz: Orizaba, Botteri 237; Cordoba, Seaton 420; Warten- 
berg, Ervendberg 286. Mrcnoacan: Patzcuaro, Pringle 3326, Hol- 
way 3598. Sratre or Mexico: Rio Hondo Cafion, Holway 3562. 
Curapas: Ghiesbreght 106. Guaremana: Tuerckheim 1105, 8427, 
II. 1334; J. D. Smith 2384, 2863; Holway 62, 553; Deam 236; 
Heyde & Lua 6161. British Honpuras: Peck 875. Costa RIca: 
Pittier 4923. : 
Var. hypomalaca. Rami hispido-pilosi et plus minusve glandu- 
losi. Folia subtus dense canescenterque vel subcanescenter pilo- 
sula pilis appressis. — Vera Cruz: Boca del Monte, Purpus 3024. 
