W ATSON—Plants of Bernalillo County 
fertile. | 
B. PEDATA, Gray. Cinereous-puberulent; leaves 
pedately divided, commonly into 3 petiolate obovate 
or cuneate segments, of which the lateral are 2-parted, 
and the middle 3 to 7 lobed; lobes obovate or broadly 
oblong; heads 1-2 in. high or less; about 12 oblong 
rays; 10 to 12 scales of pappus spatulate-oblong with 
costa vanishing near the obtuse apex. On mesa hills 
near “Highland Park.’ 
30. HyMENOoPAPPUS, L Her. 
Biennial herb, dissected leaves, corymbed small, 
many-flowered heads of whitish or yellow flowers; 
6-12, loose, broad involucral bracts, petal-like with 
greenish-white or yellowish margins. 
H. FLAVESCENS. (Yellow United-papphus.) Dense- 
ly white tomentose, divisions of leaves dinear; heads 
1-3 to 1-2 in. high. 
31. potypTERis. Nut. (False Cockle.) 
Glandular pubescent herb, undivided and mostly en- 
tire leaves, alternate and petioled; rose-purple flowers 
which at a glance look like those of a Lychnis. 
P. HOOKERIANA. Gray. Somewhat viscid above, 
leaves lanceolate, inner bracts of involucre with pur- 
plish tips; rays 8-10 deeply 3 cleft. On mesa; not 
abundant. 
32. ACTINELLA. Pers Nutt. 
Low herbs, leaves narrow, dotted with resinous 
atoms; solitary, many-flowered heads terminating 
scapes or slender naked peduncles, wedge ovate or lan- 
ceolate, thin or coriaceous nearly equal involucral 
bracts, appressed in 2 or 3 rows. Pappus of 5 or more 
ovate very thin chaffy scales. 
Involucre or numerous not rigid bracts; leaves 
entire, - - - - A. ACAULIS. 
Involucre of rigid bracts wv two rows, the outer 
connate at base, leaves 1 to 3, pimnately di- 
vided, - - - - A. ODORATE. 
A. acautis, Nutt, (Stemless Raylet.) Densely 
caespitose, the branches of the caudex thick and 
crowded, canescently villous or sericeus; leaves thick- 
ish, from spatulate to nearly linear, commonly short, 
1-2 to 2 in. long. Densely crowded on the caudex, 
scape 1-2 to 6 in. high. “Rim Rock” of the Sandia 
Mountains. 
A. oporATA, Gray. ‘Limonillo.” Annual 1 to 2 ft. 
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