W ATSON—Plants of Bernalillo County 
receptacle, pappus united at base so as to fall in a 
ring. | 
ne PLANTAGINFOLIA, Hooks (Plantain-Leaved E.) 
Spreading by offsets and runners, low three in. to 
a foot or more high; leaves silky-woolly when young, 
at length green above and hoary beneath; those of the 
unbranched stem small, lanceolate, the radical obovate 
or oval-spatulate, petioled, large, three-nerved. Com- 
mon in the mountains under the ‘“‘Yellow Pine.” 
16. MELAMPODIUM. 
Branching herbs with opposite, mostly sessile leaves ; 
pedunculate heads terminating the branches or in the 
forks, short or conspicuous, fertile rays, perfect but 
sterile disk-flowers, convex or conical chaffy recepta- 
cle. 
M. CINEREUM, D. (. Cinerous or even silvery-canes- 
cent or greener; leaves linear or lower lanceolate or 
spatulate, entire or undulate or even sinuate-pinnati- 
fid; rays 5 to 9, cuneate-oblong, 2 or 3-lobed at apex, 
white. Particularly common on the hills of “Terrace 
Mesa.” 
17. BeRLANDIERA, D.C. “Arroyo Ox-Eye.”’ 
Alternate leaved perennials with pedunculate head, 
the 5 to 12 fertile flowers in a single series. Involu- 
cial bracts in about 3 series, the inner dilated and ex- 
ceeding the disk, the outer smaller and foliaceous. 
B. LyrATA, Benth. Stems mostly low, and heads 
with long peduncles; canescent with minute white or 
gray tomentum ; leaves all alternate at base, pinnatifid, 
at length greenish above; achenes obovate. Common in 
the arroyos on ‘Terrace Mesa and elsewhere. 
18. PARTHENIUM, L. 
Ours shrubs with alternate leaves, small corymbed 
inconspicuously radiate heads of whitish flowers, hem- 
ispehical involucie of 2 ranks of short-ovate or round- 
ish scales, conical, chaffy receptacle, and obcompressed 
achenes. 
p. IncanumM, H B K, 1 to 3 feet high; much branch- 
ed, canescent with fine tomentum, leaves mostly obo- 
vate in outline, sinuately pinnatifid into 3 to 7 oblong 
or roundish and obtuse lobes; heads numerous, longer 
than broad; pappus a pair of short-subulate ercet or at 
length spreading awns. 
19. ampBrosia, Ragweed. 
Coarse homely weeds, with opposite or alternate, 
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