Tab. 6286. 
PECTIS ANGUSTIFOLIA. 
Native of New Mexico and Western Texas. 
Nat. Ord. Composite. — Tribe Heleniolde,®. 
Genus Pectis, Linn. ( Bentli . et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. ii. p. 412.) 
Pectis angustifolia ; annua, glaberrima, caule basi simplici superne dichotome 
corymboso ramosissimo, ramis obscure angulatis, foliis lineari-subulatis 
acutis marginibus incrassatis glanduliferis basin versus ciliispaucis subulatis 
instructis, capitulis terminalibus breviter pedunculatis, involucri bracteis 
8 coriaceis dorso convexis, floribus radii ad 8, ligula elliptica emarginata, 
disci 10-12 tubo puberulo, acheniis angustis estriatis puberulis, pappi squa- 
mellis minutis. 
P. angustifolia, Torr. in Ann. Lye. Neiv York, vol. ii. p. 214 ; A Gray in PI. 
Wright, pars 1. p. 83. Plant. Fendl. p. 61 ; Coulter, Syn. Flor. Colorado, 
p. 55. 
P. fastigiata, A. Gray. Plant Fendl. p. 62. 
Pectidopsis angustifolia, D.C. Prod. vol. v. p. 98. 
A very pretty annual, forming dense golden cushions in its 
native country, from the excessively branched corymbose 
habit of the plants which grow close together, and the abun- 
dance of flowering heads that open at the same time. It 
was found by all the early travellers in New Mexico, that 
Colorado district, etc., as by James, Coulter, Gregg, as well 
as by the later travellers, as Fremont, Wright, Fendler, etc. ; 
and it was introduced into cultivation by Mr. Thompson, of 
Ipswich, in 1865, who sent specimens in that year to Kew. 
The genus Pectidopsis , founded by the elder DeCandolle 
for this plant, on the form of the pappus, has rightly been 
sunk in Pectis by Asa Gray. The organism in question being 
not only very variable in the genus, but in the present species, 
in which it consists of sometimes five pointed scales, at others, 
of retrorsely serrulate bristles, at others of 1-2-awned scales. 
Descr. A glabrous annual, six to ten inches high. Stem 
simple at the base, then excessively dichotomously branched 
in a corymbose manner. Leaves opposite, all cauline, one to one 
and a half inches long, linear-subulate, apiculate; margin’s 
MARCH 1st, 1877. 
