542 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 
Actinomeris Wrightii, Gray, Pl. Fendl. 85. — Rocky places in woods, 
W. Texas, Lindheimer, nos. 37, 38, 648, Wright. 
+ + Species of the S. E. United States. 
++ Leaves coarsely serrate-dentate: rays very long. 
20. V. nuptcavLis, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xix. 12 (1883), & Syn. 
Fl. i. pt. 2, 288 ; Chapm. Fl. S. U. S. ed. 8, 255. Helianthus? aristatus, 
Ell. Sk. ii. 428. <Actinomeris nudicaulis, Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 
vii. 364; Torr. & Gray, FI. ii. 336. — Rich pine woods, Georgia, Boy- 
kin; Alabama, Buckley, Donnell Smith ; Florida, Chapman, Curtiss, 208. 
19, 5910, Wash, no. 2202. 
++ ++ Leaves remotely serrulate or subentire: rays very short. 
21. V. Warzt, Gray, Il. ec. Actinomeris pauciflora, Nutt. Am. Jout. 
Sci. v. 301, & Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. vii. 364. — Low pine barrens, 
W. Florida, Ware, Chapman. 
§ 6. SonortcoLa. Heads large or medium-sized, seldom numerous: 
rays yellow, often pale; scales of the involucre narrowly to broadly 
oblong ; awns of the pappus long and slender, at least when young much 
longer than the breadth of the achene: leaves opposite (at least below); 
ovate (lanceolate in V. chihuahuensis), not decurrent along the _ 
Stems wingless, often ligneous. Species of the general Sonoran regi! 
forming a natural group. 
* Body of the mature achenes 6 to 10 mm. long. 
+ Leaves sessile. 
22. V. pissrra, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xx. 299.— Lower Californis, 
near Todos Santos Bay, Orcutt, no. 1233, and La Guilla, no. 1355. 
+ + Leaves on broadly winged auriculate-clasping petioles: Lower Californian. | 
23. V.Patmert, Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. xxiv. 56 (1889). — Mou 
tain Cafions, Los Angeles Bay, Lower California, Palmer, no. 528. 
+ + + Leaves on long narrowly winged exauriculate petioles: Mexican. 
24. V. Leprocu#ta, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xxi. 389 (1886).— 
S. W. Chihuahua, Palmer, no. 170. ) 
* * Body of achenes 4 to 5 mm. long, glabrous; wings broad, fringed. 
: ss 146 
25. V. eRosa, Brandegee, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. ser. 2, ™- sf 
(1891). — Sierra de San Francisquito, Lower California, Brandege?- 
