114 Contributions from the Gray Herbarium 
blackish, lucid, glabrous, 2mm. long. Pappus none. — Heliomeris 
multiflora Nutt. var. hispida Gray! Pl. Wright. ii. 87 (1853). 
Gymnolomia hispida (Gray) Rob. & Greenm. Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. 
Hist. xxix. 93 (1899). G. hispida (Gray) Rob. & Greenm. var. 
ciliata Rob. & Greenm.! 1. c. (1899). G. ciliata (Rob. & Greenm.) 
Rydb. Bull. Torr. Club xxxvii. 328 (1910); Woot. & Standl. Contr. 
U. 8. Nat. Herb. xix. 708 (1915).— The name hispida is not — 
available for this plant as a species because of the earlier and valid 
V. hispida Baker. Two varieties may be distinguished. 
Var. ciliata (Rob. & Greenm.), comb. nov.: annua tenuis, basi 
saepe ramosa, caule sparse strigoso vel hispido-piloso vel sub- 
glabro, foliis viridibus hispido-piloso-ciliatis supra sparse hispido- 
' pilosis subtus in costa et margine hispido-pilosis ceterum subglabris, 
pedunculis saepius strigosis, involucri phyllariis margine hispido- 
piloso-ciliatis apice attenuato tuberculato-hispidulis ceterum sub- 
glabris. — G. hispida (Gray) Rob. & Greenm. var. ciliata Rob. & 
Greenm. 1. c. G. ciliata (Rob. & Greenm.) Rydb. 1. c. — UTAH: 
Beaver, 1877, Palmer 245 (type!: G.). NEW MEXICO: Zuni 
Mts., Sept. 1851, Sitgreaves Expedition (G.). MEXICO: Sonora: 
Wright 1222 part (G.).— This variety makes the nearest approach 
of any of the western forms of the section to the isolated V. Porter? 
of Georgia. 
Var. hispida (Gray), comb. nov.: basi invisa, caule subdense 
patenterque hispido-piloso, foliis utrinque dense pubescentibus 
(supra Senepraera nian oasis subtus dense hispido-strigosis 
pilis basi glandulari-tuberculatis), involucri’ phyllariis subdense 
hispido-pilosis. — H. multiflora Nutt. var. hispida Gray 1. ¢. im 
part. G. hispida (Gray) Rob. & Greenm. 1. c. — MEXICO: 
Sonora: low damp soil, near Santa Cruz and San Bernadino, 
ight 1222 part (TrPE: G.). 
63. V. Porteri (Gray), comb. nov. Erect paniculately branched 
or rarely subsimple annual, 5-9 dm. high, the stem usually put- 
plish, slender, strigillose, below subglabrate. Leaves opposite be- 
low, alternate above, narrowly lanceolate to linear, attenuate, at 
bau acuminate, entire, above subsparsely tuberculate-hispid and 
-hispidulous with incurved hairs, beneath sparsely hispid-pilose 
along costa or subglabrous, gland-dotted, tuberculate-hispid-cili- 
ate, subtriplinerved above the base, 5-11.5 cm. long, 1.5-8.5 mm. 
! As here first designated. 
