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and short pappus ascribed by Baker to E. elatus, and only the 
leaf-shape of E. tomentosus. These may be described as a va- 
riety. 
Elephantopus elatus intermedius var. nov. 
Leaf-blade elliptic or oblong, abruptly narrowed to the base, 
less than three times as long as wide; stem comparatively short and 
sparingly branched; pappus sometimes as much as 5 mm. long. 
Type: Tracy 4741, collected at Coopolis, Mississippi, Sep- 
tember 8, 1898, and deposited in the herbarium of the New York 
Botanical Garden. The variety is represented in herbaria by 
numerous specimens, and is distributed from southern Mississippi 
east along the coastal plain to Georgia and south to Lee and 
Dade Counties in southern Florida. 
NEW YorK BoTANIcAL GARDEN 
