Helenium nanum sp,’nov 
Helenium nanum s p« nov. Plant a delicate, slender, minutely puberulent 
annual, 15-SO cm, Mgh; stems terete, strAdte, glabrous or nearly so, branched 
above, 1 mm, in diameter or less, the branchlets terminating in solitary heads; 
leaves linear or oblong, entire, acute or obtuse, sessile, decurrent on the 
stem, mostly less than 1,5 cm, long and 2 mm, broad, glabrous or nearly so, 
glandular-punctate; heads long-pedunculate, radiate, small, 10-14 mm, broad; 
involucral bracts 12-16, in 2 series, spatulate to narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, 
minutely puberulent, up to 4 mm, long and less than 1 mm, broad, reflexed; 
receptacle naked, ovoid, 2 mm, high and about 1,3 mm, broad; ray-flowers about 
6, pistillate, the ligule broadly cuneate, 3—toothed, purplish or narrowly 
yellowish at the apex, 6-6,5 mm, long, 4 mm, broad, pubescent below; disk- 
flowers about 50, the corolla-tube 2 mm, long, glandular towards the apex, the 
lobes less than ,5 mm, long; achenes 1 mm, long, nearly as broad, villous; 
pappus of about 8 awn-tipped scales, the awns as long as or longer than the body 
of the scales and together as long as or nearly as long as the corolla-tube, 
lype specimen No, 14270 is deposited in the Grajr Herbarium, It was collected 
June 4, 1935, at one mile south of the Santa Rita School near the southern line 
of Brooks County, ‘fexas. Subsequently it also was collected 40 or 50 miles 
north of that locality in Jim Wells County. 
