94 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 
2? Encelia tenuis. A very slender plant with puberulent and spar- 
/ ingly hispidulous stems, nearly naked above and producing few-headed — 
panicles: leaves mostly opposite, deltoid-ovate, subcordate, 4 to 7 cm, — 
long, coarsely and irregularly dentate, scabrous on both surfaces, on short 
slender petioles, subtended by connate suborbicular foliaceous appet- — 
dages: involucre oblong-cylindrical, 9 mm. high, with 2 or 3 series of 
puberulent and ciliate lance-acuminate bracts, the outer series much — 
shorter than the inner: rays 8 or 10, sulphur-yellow, 5 mm. long: bracts — 
of the receptacle silky-villous, especially along the backs and toward the 
acuminate tips: akenes obcordate-ovate, 5 mm. long, appressed-silky, 
awnless, — Rather scarce on the edge of a cornfield, Acapulco, Novem- — 
ber, 1894 (no. 96). 
Bmens rEFRACTA, Brandegee, Zoe, i. 310. Two plants found in a 
shady river bottom, November, 1894 (no. 209). 
