112 Contributions from the Gray Herbarium 
herbaceous, strigose-hispid below, strigillose above. Rays about 
12, as in V. multiflora; disk-corollas puberulous below, 2.5-3 mm. 
long (tube 0.7 mm.). Pales firmly short-pointed, hispid-pilose above, 
4 mm. long. Achenes lucid, blackish, glabrous, 1.8 mm. long. 
Pappus none. —Gymnolomia longifolia Rob. & Greenm.! Proc. 
Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. xxix. 92 (1899); Woot. & Stand]. Contr. 
U.S. Nat. Herb. xix. 708 (1915). G. multiflora of earlier authors, 
in part.— TEXAS: western part, Wright 328 (rype!: G.). 
NEW MEXICO: on pine hills between the copper mines and the 
Mimbres, Wright 1221 (G.); common, Kingston, 2010 m., 1904, 
Metcalfe 1408 (G.); Forest Nursery, Fort Bayard Watershed, 
1980 m., Grant Co., 1905, Blumer 54 (G.). ARIZONA: Manning 
Trail, Rincon Mts., 2440 m., 1909, Blumer 3487 (G.); southern 
part, 1881, Lemmon (G.); Rucker’s Valley, 1881, Lemmon 383 
(G.: “ flore pleno” form). MEXICO: Curmuanua: Strawberry 
Valley, Pilares, 1891, Hartman 777 (G.); hills and plains, near 
Chihuahua City, 1885, Pringle 615 (G.), 1900,-Pringle 9153 (G.); 
near Colonia Garcia, 2440 m., 1899, Townsend & Barber 342 (G.); 
southwest part, 1885, Palmer 392 (G.); Duranao: near City of 
Durango, 1896, Palmer 754 (G.); San Luis Porost: from San 
Luis Potosi to Tampico, 1878-1879, Parry & Palmer 1102 (G.); 
Curapas: Ghiesbreght 63 (G.). — Flowering Aug.—Oct. 
61. V. annua (Jones), comb. nov. Erect paniculately branched 
or sometimes subsimple slender annual, about 7 dm. high, the stem 
subtuberculate-strigillose or strigose. Leaves opposite below, 
alternate above, linear or very narrowly linear-lanceolate, attenu- 
ate at each end, strongly revolute, tuberculate-strigillose both 
sides and gland-dotted beneath, equally green both sides, I-nerved 
and feather-veined, very strongly revolute, 3-7 cm. long, 1.5-3 mm. 
wide, the upper smaller; petioles 4 mm. long or less. Heads 
mostly small, 1-1.5(-3.5) em. wide; disk 5-7 mm. high, 6-8 mm. 
thick. Involucre 3-4(-5) mm. high, 2-seriate, the lanceolate 
acuminate bluntish-tipped callous-mucronulate phyllaries herba- 
ceous, below strigose, above strigillose or subglabrous, appr 
bal loose. Rays about 12, oval, 5-12(-15) mm. long; disk-corollas 
with a few glandular hairs below, 2.5-2.8 mm. long (tube 0.6 mm.)- 
Pales and achenes as in V. longifolia. Pappus none. — Gymnolomia 
multiflora (Nutt.) B. & H. var. annua Jones, Proc. Calif. Acad. 
' Here first designated as type. 
