W ATSON—Plants of Bernalillo County 
volucre glabrous or nearly so, but often minutely gland- 
ular; heads rather large, rays about 100, 1-2 in. long. 
A handsome species, looks like Aster nova-anglica of 
the East. Occasionally on the Mesa, in the mountains, 
and towards the Volcanoes. 
B. BIGELOVI, Gray. Cinerous-hispidulous, leafy up 
to the scattered heads; leaves small, spatulate-lanceo- 
late or upper linear; involucral bracts rather rigid, 
lanceolate, acuminate, cf 2 or 3 lengt'is; rays purple- 
violet, 1-4 in. long. Outer pappus of siender subulate 
scales about 1-3 as long as the inner bristles. Bear 
Caron. May. 
E. CANCINNGS, Torr ard Gray. With dense und shag- 
gy hairs, rays violet to blue rarely white; leaves as in 
last. On the south end of Rimi Rock. August. 
E. PHILADELPHIOUS, L. Soft hirsute 1 to 2 ft. high; 
leaves oblong or lowest spatulate or obovate, upper half 
clasping, sparingly and coarsely serrate or entire; rays 
pink, about 1-4 in. long. In alkali and moist soil along 
the Rio Grande. June. 
E. DIVERGENS, Torr and Gray. Diffusely branched 
and spreading, cinerous-pubescent or hirsute; leaves 
linear-spatulate, lower broader (1- to 1-4 in.) and some- 
times lacinately toothed or lobed; heads 1-6 to 1-4 in. 
high, rays white, purplish, or sometimes violet; involu- 
cre hirsute. Bear Canon. Late summer. 
E. strigosus, Muhl. Daisy Flebane. Stem panicled- 
corymbose at the summit, roughish like the leaves with 
minute appressed hairs, or almost smooth; leaves en- 
tire or nearly so, the upper lanceolate, scattered, the 
lowest oblong or spatulate, tapering into a slender 
petiole; rays white, twice the length of the minutely 
hairy involucre, outer pappus a crown of minute scales, 
the inner deciduous fragile bristles, usually wanting 
in the ray. 
18. tTownsEnpD1A, Hook. 
Depressed or low many stemmed herbs, much like 
Aster and Erigeron; entire leaves from linear to spatu- 
late; heads comparatively large; the numerous rays 
from violet or rose-purple to white; akene commonly 
beset with hairs which are forked or glochidiate-capi- 
tate (i. e. bidentate at top and the two lobes recurved). 
Bracts of mvolucre conspicuously attenate- 
acuminate - - - - T. EXIMIA. 
Bracts of nvolucre not consicuously attenate- 
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