Tab. 6302. 
HAPLOPAPPUS spinulosxjs. 
Native of the RocJcy Mountains. 
Nat. Ord. Composite. — Tribe ( Asteroide;e. 
Genus Haflopappus, Cass. ( Benth . and Hooh.f. Gen. PI. vol. ii. p. 253). 
ITaplopappus (Blepliarodon) spinulosus ; fruticulus cano-tomentosus, corymboso- 
ramosus, ramis foliosis, foliis brevibus 1-2-pinnatifidis segmentis brevibus 
recurvis acuminatis aristulatis, capitulis terminalibus solitariis y. subcorym- 
bosis pedunculatis, involucri hemispheric! squamis numerosis parvis arete 
imbricatis subulato-lanceolatis mucronatis canis, radiis numerosis patentibus 
obtusis aureis, disci coroilis breviter 5-dentatis, pappi setis rufis, aclieniis 
oblongo-obovatis compressis sericeis. 
Aplopappus? spinulosus, DC. Prod. v. p. 347. 
A. spinulosus, Torr. and Or. FI. N. Am. vol. ii. p. 240. 
Amellus ? spinulosus, Pursh. FI. N. Am. vol. ii. p. 564.; Torr. in Ann. Lye. New 
YorJc, vol. ii. p. 213. 
Starkea? pinnata, Nutt. Gen. vol. ii. p. 169. 
j Diplopapptjs pinnatifidus, Hoolc. FI . Bor. Am. vol. ii. p. 22. 
Dieterta spinulosa, Nutt, in Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. (N. Ser.), vol. viii. p. 301. 
A widely distributed native of the prairies bordering the 
; Eocky Mountains, from the boundary of the British possessions 
as far South as New Mexico, apparently common about the 
source of the Saskatchewan, Platte, and Colorado rivers. It 
forms a low corymbosely branched bush, one to two feet high, 
with innumerable branches from the root, clothed with small 
leaves, and bearing masses of flower-heads. One specimen from 
Mr. Veitch’s garden, about ten inches in diameter, bears 
nearly a hundred golden heads, an inch in diameter, and I 
cannot doubt but that they will prove a most ornamental 
hardy garden plant when fully established, preferring, no 
doubt, a rather dry soil and climate, and flowering, like many 
other Composite?, late in the year. The specimen here figured 
was raised by Messrs. Yeitch, who introduced it ; it flowered 
with them in August, 1874. 
june 1st, 1877. 
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