94 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
for the greater part of their length: pubescence of the peduncles 
sparing, mostly appressed; involucral scales ciliate but scarcely 
pubescent otherwise. — Heliomeris multiflora, var. hispida, Gray, 
1. c., in part, ie., as to greener forms. — 8. Utah at Beaver, Palmer, 
no. 245; New Mexico, Zuni Mts., Sitgreaves Hxp., San Antonita, 
Bigelow in part ; S. California at Sta. Monica, Hasse ; Sonora, Mexico, 
Wright, no. 1222 in part. 
* * Heads small or medium-sized ; involucral scales linear and acute or the 
inner narrowly oblong and obtusish: leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate : 
perennials so far as the duration is known. 
+ Heads small and numerous, corymbose at the ends of the branches: leaves 
petioled (shortly so in var. abbreviata). 
++ Leaves distinctly serrate. 
= Popes none : Mexico, to B hiscarshe #7 Hl 
11. G. PaTENs, Gray. Smoothish : “stems Dexuciis, “reclining, 
becoming 5 m. in length, at length soft-woody at the base, striate 
angulate, sparingly and minutely appressed-pubescent ; leaves ovate, 
acuminate, serrate, thin, obliquely truncate at the base, finely pubes- 
cent, more or less scabrous above; petioles slender, 1 to 3.2 cm 
long; peduncles slender, finely appressed-pubescent; involucre 
cylindric, 5 mm. in diameter; outer scales lanceolate acute OF 
attenuate, the inner longer, oblong, striate, obtusish: ligules 6 te 
10, 1 cm. long, yellow turning whitish during or after drying ; disk- 
flowers, 30 to 35. — Proc. Amer. acad., 5, 182; Hemsl., Biol. Cent- 
Amer. Bot., 2, 163. ? Wedelia cordata, Hook. and Arn., Bot. 
Beech., 435. Microcephalum ehrenbergianum, Sch. Bip. and 
Gynnolomia ehrenbergiana, Klatt, Leopoldina, 23, 90. Montanoa 
thomasii, Klatt, Abh. naturf. gesell. Halle, 15, 328.— State of 
San Luis Potosi, Palmer, no. 1099, Print yo. $967 Orizaba, 
Schaffner, Botteri, no. 497, 810, Thomas; Wartenberg in Hua- 
steca, Ervendberg, no. 95; Oaxaca, El Paridnetla, Conzatti and 
Gonzdlez, no. 906; Guatensta: von Tuerckheim, no. 287. 
var. ABBREVIATA, Robinson and Greenman. Stems 1 to 2 ™. 
ae sparingly appressed-pubescent: petioles very short, 4 to 6 mm. 
ength; leaves somewhat narrower ue thicker than in the type: 
aay none. — Proc. Amer. acad., 29, 387. — Jalisco at Tequila, 
Pringle, no. 4595; Guerrero, bapteens Chilapa and Tixtla, altitude 
A; 600: to 2,100 m., £. W. Nelson, no. 2164. 
svar. guatemalensis. With ‘ivionis spreading pubescence on 
uae stem : a 1 to 2.5 cm. long: pappus none. — Guatemala, 
