Bulletin University of New Mexico—No. 49 
TRIBE vil. SENECIONIDEAE.’ Involucre little or not 
at all imbricated nor papery; pappus capillary. 
Involucre of united, erect, green, equal bracts. Pappus 
of short copious hairs; leaves alternatej corollas 
yellow, - - - - (40) sENECIO. 
TRIBE VIII. CYNARIODEAE. JDiscoid; wnvolucre 
much imbricated; pappus bristley; leaves alternate. 
Leaves prickly; pappus plumose - (41) cyicwvs. 
TRIBE Ix. CICHORIACEAE. Receptacle naked or chaf- 
fy; herbs with milky juice, and alternate leaves; cor- 
ollas all ligulate, no tubular ones. 
*Pappus of scales and bristles, or plumose, in 
ours. 
Involucre double, ene flowers pink or rose 
color, - - (42) sTEPHANOMERIA. 
** Pappus sotbpocsid entirely of capillary bris- 
tle not plumose. 
Achenes not flattened, columnar or terete. 
Achenes not beaked flowers yellow, pappus 
tawny, - - - (48) ‘HTERACIUM. 
Achenes beaked; flowers yellow; involcre calycu- 
late. 
ar eae : Pappas white and copious, 
- - (44) Taraxacum. 
Eiscnind or Rennihad! pappus reddish, the 
base surrounded by a soft villous ring, 
. - -(45) pYRRHOPAPPUS. 
Achenes flat or ABET pappus white, fine an soft; 
involucre inbricated, leafy-stemmed, ‘heads 
panicled, - - : - - (46) soncuus. 
1. BRICKELLIA. 
Leaves all opposite or some alternate, veiny. Heads 
white, ochrolencous or even flesh colored. 
B. GRANDIFLORA, Nutt, Puberulent or almost glab- 
rous; stem 2 or 3 ft. high, paniculately branched; heads 
30-40 flowered, 1-2 to 2-3 in. long; drooping; leaves 
slender-petioled, at least the lower ones opposite, broad- 
ly or narrowly deltoid-cordate, coarsely dentate-serrate 
and with an entire gradually acuminate apex, the larger 
4 in. long; pappus white; perennial herbs. On the top 
of the Sandia Mts. especially on the southern end. 
2. wiaTis, Schrel BLAZING STAR. 
Perennial herbs, often dotted with resin; unbranched 
stem from a roundish tuber; rigid, alternate, narrow, 
entire, leaves; discoid heads of pretty rose-purple flow- 
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