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green, loosely spreading, hispid-ciliate with tuberculate-based hairs, 
otherwise subglabrous or sparsely tuberculate-strigillose toward 
apex and on inside, about 3.5 mm. wide above the slightly narrowed 
base. Rays 12-14, elongated-oblong, hispidulous along nerves of 
back, 3 cm. long, 7 mm. wide; disk-corollas appressed-hispidulous, 
6 mm. long (tube 1.3 mm.). Pales obtusish, glabrous, dark at apex, 
7.5 mm. long. Achenes blackish, rather compressed, sparsely ap- 
pressed-pilose, 3.5 mm. long. Awns 2, slender, strigillose, 2.8 mm. 
long; squamellae a pair at base of each awn, finely fimbriate, 
0.6 mm. long. — Gray! Proc. Am. Acad. v. 124 (1861-62); lL. ¢. 
xix. 6 (1883). — PERU: in the Andes, between Culluay and Obra- 
jillo, U. S. Exploring Expedition under Wilkes in part (rTyPss: G., 
U.S. no. 48974 in part). — The sheet in the National Herbarium 
bears a specimen of this species and one of V. Pflanzii; the sheet 
in the Gray Herbarium bears the present species only. Gray’s 
description included both species, but I have been led to restrict the 
name to the present plant because the character “ ligulis elongatis,” 
which could refer only to this species, is almost the only feature of 
the original description which does not apply equally well to either 
of the two plants included under it. Moreover, the material in 
the Gray Herbarium is of this species only, and at a later date 
Gray (Proce. Am. Acad. xix. 6) referred to V. peruviana as ap- 
parently only “ a glabrate state of Helianthus aureus, HBK.., the 
Harpalium aureum, DC.,” which he could have done only if the 
material in the Gray Herbarium (ji. ¢., the present plant) typified 
the species to his mind. 
73. V. WeBERBAUERI Blake. Erect leafy herb, the stem stout, £ 
striatulate, pilose-hirsute and more or less glandular especially 
above, sparsely branched above the middle, 1-3-headed. Lower 
leaves opposite, broadly oval, acute, subsessile, rounded at base; 
acutely or obtusely serrulate with depressed cuspidate teeth, above 
the base 3-nerved, hirsutulous-scabrous, the hairs of the uppe! 
surface with tuberculate-lepidote bases, 9-11 cm. long, 4-7.2 cm- 
wide; the upper alternate, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, smaller. 
Peduncles hispid-pilose and glandular, naked or 1-bracted, 1.2- 
1.6 dm. long; heads 8-9 em. broad; disk 1.5 em. high, 2.5-2.7 cm. 
thick. Involucre 3-seriate, 1.6-2 em. high, slightly graduated, the 
phyllaries linear-lanceolate, acuminate, tuberculate-hispidulous, 
loose, about 2.5 mm. broad. Rays about 30, yellow, narrowly 
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