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Collected at Milton Station, in the neighborhood of Stockton, 

 Oct., 1881, by Dr. Parry. 



The specimens are rather old and quite destitute of leaves ; but 

 the densely spicate heads, and very silky akenes indicate a good 

 species, to come in between H. Donglasii and H, muitigla?idulosa. 



It is glandular, after the manner of the group, and exhales an 

 odor more agreeable than that of either of the aforenamed species. 



i/Chaenactis SANTOLiNOiDES. — A cespitosc perennial, the stems; ^ 

 less than a span high, and, with the foliage, densely white-woolly ; 

 leaves linear to linear-lanceolate in outline, 1-2 inches long and 1-3 

 lines wide, somewhat quadrangular with the numerous, small, 

 crowded and imbricated leaflets ; heads large, solitary, on naked 

 peduncles 5-8 inches high; corollas apparently white; pappus of 

 10-15 ver)^ unequal, oblanceolate scales. 



Collected by S. B. and W. F. Parish (No. 1045) in the San Ber- 

 nardino Mountains, August, 1881. 



Only two or three specimens were obtained and these long past 

 their flowering. A few ripe akenes were detected adhering to the 

 woolly and matted leaves, from which the peculiar character of the 

 species was made out. It is near to C Douglasii and C. Nevadensis^ 

 but differs from them, and all other known species, in its very num- 

 erous and very irregularly-unequal pappus-scales. 



v^Raillardella Pringlei. — Stem a foot and a half high, leafy at 

 base, nakecT'and glandular above, leaves linear, glabrous, 3-4 inches 

 long, some of the radical ones remotely and obscurely serrate; head 

 solitary, terminating the long scape-like stem, large (an inch high 

 and about 40-flowered), with about 10 broadly cuneate, deeply 3- 

 cleft rays of a deep yellow or orange-color ; stales of the involucre 

 distinct to the base ; rays fertile, and bearing a pappus similar to 

 that of the disk-florets, of about 15 rather slender and soft plumose 

 bristles equalling the disk-corollas. 



High mountains west of Mt. Shasta ; collected by C. G. Pringle, 

 in August, i88r. 



Dr. Gray, in Bot. Cal i, 618, in describing his Raillarddla Mui- 

 rii^ looked on it as constituting a wxll marked second section of the 

 genus, distinguished from the first by its leafy stem, and involucral 

 scales distinct to the base. The species now described appears to 

 destroy Dr. Gray's proposed sections, inasmuch as it combines the 

 naked, scape-like, monocephalous stems of the first, with the dis- 

 tinct involucral scales of the second. But R, Pringlei surprises us 

 with large, showy ray- flowers, which, however, ought not to have been 

 so unexpected, for in some of Dr. Bolander's duplicates of R, scaposa, 

 I find a few rays ; but they are smaller, and of a paler yellow than 

 those of this new species. 



Hieracmm aurantiacum has been collected here for the past two 

 seasons, buT always in situations which seemed to indicate that it was 

 an introduced species. It has been found growing on Prospect Hill 

 (a hill situated in the centre of the city and but thinly settled), in 

 open lots and by roadsides, in the grounds of Yates' Castle and in 

 Oakwood Cemetery; but nowhere else that any of us members of the 

 S. B. C. know anything of. Mary Olivia Rust. 



