W ATSON—Plants of Bernalillo County 
SoLeaves more plainly 3-ribbed; heads in one- 
sided spreadmg or recurved racemes, forming 
an ample panicle. 
S. CANADENSIS, Var arizonica. Stems tall, rough 
and hairy, 3-6 ft. high; leaves lanceolate, pointed, 
sharply serrate, more or less pubescent beneath and 
rough above; heads small; rays very short. Common 
Le the irrigation ditches in the valley. 
*** Heads in a compound terminal corymb, not 
at all racemose; leaves mostly with a strong 
mid-ribbed not Bardem 
s. RIgIDA, L. Rough and somewhat hoary; stem 1 to 
5 ft. high, stout, very leafy; leaves oval or oblong, co- 
piously feather-veined, thick and rigid, the upper close- 
ly sessile by a broad base, slightly serrate, the upper- 
most entire; head large, over 30 flowered; rays 7-10. 
On “Rim Rock” Sandia Mis., in the Yellow Pine So- 
ciety. 
8. apHANosTEPHUS, D. C. (Spreading Daisy.) 
Leafy stemmed branching pubescent herbs with solli- 
tary terminal daisy-like heads, white to violet—purple 
rays; broadly lanceolate involucral bracts in few series 
(the outer shorter) ; prismatic achenes broad apex with 
a short crown of scales, cliate-fringed in ours. 
A. HUMILIS, Gray. Low and spreading; leaves rarely 
entire, often pinnatifid. Very common in the Sandia 
Mts. Occasionally on the Mesa. 
9. BoLtonta L’her. 
Pale, gree™ and aster-like herbs wit thickish chiefly 
entire leaves, white or purplish pistillate rays and yel- 
low disk, many-flowered heads, bracts of the hemis- 
pherical involucre appressed and imbricated somewhat 
in two rows, with narrow membramaceous margins, con- 
ical or hemispherical, naked receptacle and very flat 
obovate or inversely heart-shaped achenes margined 
with a callous wing (or in the ray 3-winged) and 
crowned with a pappus of bristles and awns. 
A plant of the mountains seems to belong here but I 
can not find the species. 
10. psrzactis, Gray. 
Annuals with slender branching stems, small heads 
on the ends of branches with violet. or white often sterile 
rays, bracts of the hemispherical involucre imbricated 
in. 2-8 series with herbaceous tips, on the outer wholly 
herbaceous; achenes narrow, pubescent. 
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