FERNALD. — GENUS PECTIS. 73 
7 P. angustifolia, Torr. Plant very aromatic, resembling P. tenella : 
pappus a shallow cup or crown of 4 or 5 more or less connate squamelle. 
— Ann. Lye. N. Y. ii. 214; Gray, Pl. Fendl. 61 & Gray in Torr. Bot. 
Mex. Bound. 73; Hook. Bot. Mag. cili. t. 6286. Helioreos, Raf. 1. ¢. 
Pectidopsis angustifolia, DC. Prodr. v. 98; Torr. & Gr. Fl. ii. 62.— 
Dry soil, Kansas (Plank) and Cotorapo (Parry, &c.) to Lower Cati- 
ForNIA (Palmer, 1887, no. 657) and Carmuagua (Hartman, no. 817). 
Var. subaristata, Gray. Pappus, in addition to the crown, of 2 
slender awns. — Pl. Wright. i. 82. P. fastigiata, Gray, Pl. Fendl. 62. 
P. angustifolia, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xix. 46, in part, not Torr. — 
Southern Texas and New Mexico to San Luis Potosi. Texas, near 
Austin (Chas. Wright), between the Pecos and the Limpia (Chas. 
Wright, no. 244), Georgetown (Palmer, 1880, no. 703); New Mexico, 
Deming (Kellogg) ; Coanurna, Saltillo and Monclova (Palmer, 1880, 
nos. 701, 702); San Luis Porost (Parry, no. 519), near Peotillos 
(Schaffner, no. 325). 
* * Erect, branching above, heads short-pedunculate in cymose or glomerate in- 
florescences : involucre 3-5-bracteate : awns slightly dilated at bases. (Forms 
of P. elongata nray be looked for here.) 
2: fasciculifiora, DC. Stems erect from a slightly suffruticose base, 
‘mooth, 3 to 5 dm. high, branching mostly toward the summit: leaves 
linear-oblanceolate, obtuse or acute, sometimes mucronate, the largest 3} 
“m. ong, 6 mm. wide, faintly pellucid-punctate, entire, or closely serru- 
late, with 1 to 5 pairs of sete toward the bases, or the lowest leaves 
tarely naked: heads crowded on short branches in the axils of the reduced 
floral leaves : involucre 4 to 6 mm. high, 8-12-flowered ; bracts linear, 
Acuminate, keeled below the middle: rays oblong, 3 mm. long: pappus 
: to 3 very slender awns 4 or 5 mm. long, with or without a shallow 
/ "regular squamellose cup at the base: akenes minutely setulose or gla- 
‘brate, half as long as the pappus.— Prodr. v. 100. — Southwestern 
_ Mexico, first collected by Henke. Gurrrero, San Marcos (Nelson, 
ho. 2268). A little known species apparently well represented by Mr. 
Nelson’s plant. 
- P. fasciculata, Poir. With the habit of the former: the leaves 
ea lancéolées, élargies”: the involucral bracts oblong, obtuse, — 
2 Pappus “ une membrane qui supporte latéralement deux filets soyeux. 
+ Dict v. 120. — A plant, judging from the description, very near if not 
quite P. Sasciculi flora, though placed by De Candolle in P. prostrata. 
/, ®. Berlandieri, DC. A low annual, 1 or 2 dm. high, of bushy 
habit with many angulate smooth or minutely puberulent ascending 
