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cephalae subnudae, ramulis (vel pedunculis) divaricatis 5-8 em. 
longis, pedicellis ultimis saepius 8-12 mm. longis incurvo-pilosulis 
pilis brevibus et longioribus; bracteae ultimae lineares 1.5 mm. 
longae. Capitula 1.3-1.5 cm. lata; discus 4.5—(fructu) 5.5 mm. 
alta 3.5 mm. diametro. Involucri ca. 2-seriati ad 3 mm. alti 
irregularis phyllaria linearia vel spathulata acuta vel acuminata 
exteriora subherbacea interiora subherbaceo-subsicca miucronu- 
lata plus minusve pilosula. Radii 8 albi ovales 2-3-denticulati 
5-nervii fertiles 5.5-6 mm. longi 2-2.5 mm. lati; corollae disci 
ca. 33 albae in tubo pilosae 2.6-3 mm. longae (tubo 1.2-1.5 mm., 
dentibus 0.6 mm.), faucibus infundibularibus. Paleae spathulato- 
obovatae acutae mucronulatae ciliatae dorso pilosae 4 mm. longae. 
Achenia nigrescentia paullum incrassata tuberculato-hispidula 2.8 
mm. longa 1.6mm. lata (alis 0.3-0.5 mm. latis. ciliolatis apice 
aristis adnatis inclusis). Aristae 2 ciliolatae inaequales ad 1.9 mm. 
longae.—- GuatemaLa: San Felipe, Retalhuleu, 14 Jan. 1917, 
E. W. D. Holway 723 (rypx in Gray Herb.). 
Corrorsis mutica DC. Prod. v. 571 (1836). Examination of 
the type of this species by the writer in 1914 showed it to be identi- 
cal with C. mexicana (DC.) Hemsl. (Electra mexicana DC. Prod. 
v. 630 (1836), which must be referred to its synonymy. The 
varieties of C. mutica will stand as follows: 
Var. genuina: subglabra, foliis glabratis vel glabris. — C. 
mutica DC. ! Electra mexicana DC.! Coreopsis mexicana (DC.) 
Hemsl. Biol. Centr.-Am. Bot. ii. 196 (1881); Blake, Proc. Am. 
Acad. xlix. 337 (1913). Electra Galeottii Gray! Pl. Wright. 1 
110, footnote (1852). Coreopsis Galeotti (Gray) Hemsl. Biol. 
Centr.-Am. Bot. ii. 195 (1881). — The better specimens of Galeott 
2086 and 2087, types of E. Galeotti, in the Kew Herbarium, afford 
the following data for these collections: ‘Galeotti 2086: woods, 
1370-1675 m., cordillera, Oaxaca, Sept. 1840; Galeotts 2087; same 
locality, mountains at 2285 m., 1840. 
Var. suBvitLosa DC.! Prod. v. 571 (1836). —C. mexicana 
(DC.) Hemsl. var. hyperdasya Blake ! Proc. Am. Acad. xlix. 338 
(1913). — Ehrenberg’s no. 354, which as represented in the Gray 
Herbarium is of this variety, is of var. genwina as to the specimen 
in the British Museum. 
Var. holotricha (Blake), comb. nov.—C. mericana (DC.) Hemsl. 
var. hyperdasya Blake forma holotricha Blake! Proc. Am. Acad. 
xlix. 338 (1913). 
