WATSON—Plants of Bernalillo County 
ers; naked receptacle; corolla with long and slender 
lobes; pappus of 15-40 hair-like bristles, very plumose 
in ours. 
Lt. puNcTATA, Hook. Stout 10 in. to 30 in. high 
heads usually many in a dense spike, 3-6 flowered. 
In the Yellow Pine Soc. 1 or 2 miles west of camp 
Whitcomb, late summer or autumn. 
(3). a@uTIERREzIA, Lag. 
Herbs, but somewhat woody at base; with narrow, 
small linear, entire leaves; heads small, radiate, yellow. 
Often called ‘“‘Golden-rod.” Bloom in late summer and 
autumn. 
G. SAROTHRAE, Britt and Russy. Bushy, 6 to 20 in. 
high; leaves numerous, 1-2 to 1 in. long; 3 or 4 ray 
flowers and as many disk flowers in a head. he most 
common plant on part of the mest and well distributed 
everywere. 
G. FILIFoLIA, Green. With longer (1 in.) leaves, 
Mts. and Mesa 
4. cuHrysopsis, Nutt. (Golden Aster.) 
Chiefly perennial, low, woolly or hairy herbs; heads 
rather large, on ends of branches, yellow; flat recepta- 
cle; obovate achenes; pappus double, the outer of very 
short and somewhat chaffy bristles, the inner long and 
capillary. 
c. vintosa, Nutt. Very hairy; stems corymbosely 
branched, each branch terminated by a head with a 
short peduncle; leaves narrowly oblong. Common in 
the grassy patches on tne tops of the Sandis Mts. 
5. APLOPAPPUS, Cass. 
Herbaceous perennials with alternate leaves, hemis- 
pherical involucre of many usually closely imbricated 
bracts in several series, flat receptacle, short-turbinate 
to linear achenes, and a simple pappus of numerous 
unequal bristles. In ours heads are from 6-12 mm. 
high (1-4-1-2 in.) leaves more or less pinnatified with 
teeth and tips commonly bristle-tipped. 
Leaves not deeply cleft...... A. rubiginosa. 
Leaves 1 to 2-pinnatifid...... A. spinulosus. 
A. RuBIGINosA, Torr and Gray, Viscid, and more 
or less pubescent 1 to 3 ft. high; leaves lanceolate or 
narrowly oblong; heads 1 to 2 in. high or less, usually 
on a naked peduncle. 
A, spinuLosus. DC. Perennial canescent to glab- 
rate, branched at summit; leaves wit sharp pointed 
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