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subentire, or with few serrate teeth at summit: involucres 

 large, campanulate, mostly subsessile singly in the axils of the 

 leaves which much exceed them, a few pedunculate ones at 

 summit of stem or branch : bracts of involucres much imbri- 

 cated, but almost concealed by the woolly investure. -^ S 

 San Bernardino Mountains, S. B. Parish, 23 Oct. 1891. 



CoRETHROGYNE BREVICULA. lyOw, much branched from a 

 ligneous basal part, the branches 5 to 8 inches high, widely 

 corymbose-panicled from about the middle ; branches and 

 leaves with a thin but close and permanent tomentum : leaves 

 small, oblanceolate, obtuse, entire : branches of panicle and 

 bracts thereof rough and also viscid with many short-stipitate 

 glands : involucres broadly turbinate, less than }4 inch high, 

 their much imbricated bracts with acute spreading tips viscid- 

 glandular and recurved, also marginally beset with short-stipi- 

 tate glands : achenes oblong-linear, thinly soft-silky ; pappus 

 rather copious, reddish. 



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 plant from the same general region, collected by K- A. Mearns, 

 in August, 1894, is provisionally referred here, is as small, 

 less shrubby, and with different involucres, though with the 

 same pubescence. 



CoRETHROGYNE RACEMOSA. Evidently half-shrubby, the 

 straight ascending branches uncommonly stout, densely and 

 permanently white-tomentose, all subracemose from below the 

 middle : leaves small for the plant, white-woolly on both faces, 

 entire : heads mostly solitary and short-peduncled in the leaf- 

 axils; peduncles and turbinate involucres roughly viscid- 

 glandular : purple rays unusually large and showy ; achenes 

 rather loosely silky ; pappus fuscous. 



Mountains of San Diego Co., C. R. Orcutt, 1889. Speci- 

 mens in U. S. Herb, on same sheet with those typical of C 

 brevicida, but species most distinct in habit, pubescence and i 



inflorescence. 



CoRETHROGYNE FI.AGEI.I.ARIS. Basal parts unknown ; ll 



branches of a foot long perhaps reclining, at least very slen- 



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