SENECIO SALIENS.
S. triangularis T. N. G. F: Am. 2 & 1. 441. 1834.
Periennial from a thick rootstock and numerous matted roots ; stem stout, 3-5 dm. high, glabrous, striate ; leaves fleshy, deltoid triangular, with salient teeth, the lower petioled, the upper sessile ; inflorescence short, corymbose ; heads about I cm. high ; bracts linear ; rays about 8 mm. long; achenes glabrous.
It is nearest related to S. triangularis, differing in the lower stature, the smaller thick and rather fleshy leaves, with fewer coarser less pointed teeth. The following specimens belong to it :
Afontana : J. H. Flodman, no. 919, 1896, from Baldy in the Little Belt Mountains, altitude 7000 feet.
IT'yoming : Fremont, in the Wind River Mountains, altitude 7000 feet.
Waslungton Frank Tweedy, 1883, Yakima Region, altitude, 6700 feet.