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763. GNAPHALIUM PURPUREUM L,.—Sierra de la Laguna. 
764. GNAPHALIUM GRACILE HBK. Growing on the sandy 
dry beds of streams. 
765. FRANSERIA CAMPHORATA Greene. Abundant in the 
vicinity of Pescadero. It extends northward to the foothills of 
San Pedro Martir. 
FAXONIA gen. nov. Heads heterogamous, radiate, flowers of 
the ray 9, of the disk 3. Involucre of few, narrow bracts, sub 
2-seriate and slightly unequal, some of the outer embracing the 
ray-flowers. Receptacle convex, paleze, membranaceous linear. 
Ligule of the ray-flowers rudimentary. Style glabrous, acuminate. 
Akenes somewhat curved, without pappus, apparently fertile. 
Flowers of the disk yellow, with deeply and somewhat irregularly 
cleft limb. Stamens distinct or two occasionally joined. Anthers 
short. Style branches linear, stigmatic on the inner surface 
nearly to the somewhat dilated truncate tip. Akenes with a 
pappus of irregular slender awns. 
Named in honor of Mr. C. E. Faxon, whose exquisite draw- 
ings for the Sylva of North America have placed him in the 
front rank of botanical artists. 
766. F.PUSILLA.* Plant (only one seen) 8 cm. high, branch- 
ing from near the base, villous all over with many-jointed hairs 
tipped with capitate glands: leaves opposite, lanceolate, unequal- 
sided, 1-2 cm. long, dentate, the teeth small, obtuse, and remote, 
the veins marked by oil glands; petiole very slender equaling, or 
in the upper many times exceeding the blade, dilated and some- 
what clasping at base: inflorescence axillary; heads ovate 3-4 
mm. high, 10-15 flowered: bracts of the involucre 6-8, nearly 
equal, lanceolate, with somewhat foliaceous tips, 2-4 of them 
curved, complicate and embracing the ray-akenes: receptacle not 
villous, bracts narrowly linear more or less united: ray-flowers 
with pubescent tube and nearly obsolete ligule; style branches 
long-acuminate; akenes apparently fertile, glabrous, curved, 
striate, compressed. 134 mm. long: disk flowers 2 mm. long, 
* Prars XXXI. 1, whole plant enlarged; 2, head; 3, ray-flower with 
embracing bract; 4, same with flower drawn out; 5, bract of the receptacle; 
6, disk-flower; 7, same opened; 8, stamen. — 
