W ATSON—Plants of Bernalillo County 
leaves rarely pinnately parted, moderately prickly ; 
heads mostly 1 1-2 in. high; principal involucral bracts 
mostly thickend on the back by the broader glanular- 
viscid ridge, smaller and narrower and tipped with an 
evident spreading short prickle; corrola _ rose-color, 
purple or white. Tops of the Sandia Mountains. 
42. STEPHANOMERIA. Nut. 
Mostly smooth and glabrous perennials with branch- 
ing and rigid or rush-like stems, small and scale-like 
leaves, heads of 3-20 flowers, cylindrical or oblong in- 
volucre of several appressed and equal flat membra- 
naceous bracts and some short calyculate ones. 
s. RUNoINATA. Nutt. A comparitively stout and 
rigid perennial, branching from thick roots; heads 
1-3 in. high or more and scattered along the branches. 
Some runinate-pinnatifid leaves below. Somewhat 
common on the mesa and blossoming from spring to 
Nov. 
43. HIERACIUM. Tourn. HAWKWOOD. 
Hispid or hirsute perennials; 12 to many-flowered 
heads; naked receptacle. 
H. FENDLERI. Schultz. Subscapose, not rarely 1 or 
2 leaves towards base of simple or branching stem, 
sparsely rough hairy; radical leaves spatulate or broad- 
er, cauline lanceolate; achenes tapering from near the 
base to summit; pappus sordid whitish. In the Moun- 
tains. 
44, Taravacum. Haller. DANDELION. 
Perennials or biennials, with radical runcinate 
leaves; many flowered large heads of yellow flowers, 
solitary on a slender, hollow scape. 
T. OFFIcINATE. Weber. The common dandelion of 
the East, an intruduction from Europe. Quite rare 
here. There are a few on lawns and gardens in town. 
45. PYRRHOPAPPUS. A. C. FALSE DANDELION. 
Annual or biennial herbs, with solitary heads of 
deep yellow flowers terminating the branches. Ours 
more or less leafy-stemmed and branching. 
P. caroutinranis. D. C. 18 inches to 3 feet high, 
leaves oblong or lanceolate, entire, cut, or pinnatifid, 
those of the stem partly clasping; fruiting heads an 
inch or more high; calyculate involucral bracts loose, 
1-2 to 1-3 the length of the inner set. Along the Rio 
Grande and in yards. Apparently introduced. 
4, soncnuus. I. sow-THISTLE. 
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