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oblong lobes; capsule ovoid, shorter than the calyx-teeth; seeds 
white, 2 mm. long, minutely roughened. 
Collected at Seven Oaks, 5,000 ft. alt., in the San Bernardino 
Mountains, June, 1g00, by Mr. and Mrs. Grout. 
Near G. latiflora, Gray, from which it is well distingttished by 
its much longer filiform tube. 
GALIUM MULTIFLORUM parvifolium. Leaves approximate, 
thick, 4-6 mm. long, lateral nerves, and sometimes the midvein 
obsolete; fruit less densely hirsute than in the species. 
On dry slopes in the San Antonio and San Bernardino Mts. at 
6,500-9,000 ft. alt. Bear Valley, _June, 1886, 1829 Parish. 
Summit San Antonio Mts., A/cClatchie, Aug., 1893. 
Eupatorium Pasadenense. Of the Eximbricata section; 
stems slender and apparently herbaceous, glandular-puberulent; 
upper leaves opposite, short petioled, ovate-deltoid, acute, and at 
base cordate, serrate, thin, minutely atomiferous beneath; cymes 
rather compact, on dichotomous peduncles longer than the leaves, 
pedicels 1 cm. long, with 2-3 linear bracts; heads 20-30-flowered; 
involucral bracts lanceolate, firm, 4 mm. long, prominently 
2-ribbed, the acute tips softer; corolla 4-5 mm. long, glabrous, 
white, the filiform tube twice the length of the abruptly expanded 
throat; pappus scabrous, equaling the corolla, very promptly 
deciduous; achenes smooth, 5-angled, slightly arcuate, 1.5 mm. 
long; receptacle a little rounded. 
Wet bank of a pool in a cafion south of Pasadena, April 20, 
‘1896, 1128 A. J. MeClatchie. 
Nearest £. occidentale Hook., but abundantly distinct in pubes- 
cence, character of the involucral scales and shape of the corolla. 
Bidens speciosa. 2. Nashii Wiegand, Bull. Torr. Club, 26. 
421, as to the Californian plants only. Aquatic, perennial by 
stolons, glabrous throughout; stems ‘erect or assurgent, stout, 
with an extreme height of 2.5 m., branched at every node, the 
lowest branches becoming stolons, the upper short, erect, their 
ultimate branchlets 1-3-flowered; leaves lanceolate, 1-2 dm. long, 
exeeding the internodes, conspicuously toothed, narrowed to the 
connate base; heads on peduneles 4-8 cm. long, erect, nodding 
