GREENMAN, — MEXICAN PLANTS. 311 
flowers numerous (about 60), including the achenes 2 cm. or more in 
length: achenes short, columnar, striate, puberulent, 3 mm. long in the 
flowering stage : pappus silvery white. — Collected by C. G. Pringle, on 
a wet barranca above Cuernavaca, altitude 2,000 m., 1 November, 1896, 
no. 6626. A very distinct species of Cacalia, the younger leaves much 
resembling the foliage of Senecio reticulatus, DC., and with the inflores- 
cence of C’. platylepis, Rob. & Seaton. 
Cynara Carpuncettus, L. This very showy plant, native of the 
Old World, appears not to have been hitherto recorded from Mexico. It 
was collected by Wislizenus, at Saltillo, Coahuila, no. 310, and by E. W. 
Nelson, at Celaya, Guanajuato, no. 3866. 
