502 Eastwoop: New Species OF WESTERN PLANTS 
white, upwardly barbellulate, two thirds as long as the akene; 
this with ten strong ribs, tapering to the disk-like summit, the 
beak from one fourth to one half as long as the akene, together 
about 4 mm. long. 
This is peculiar among Pacific Coast species in having the 
akene tapering to a beak. Under the genus Zroxts0n in Gray’s 
Synoptical Flora this would come under the section Eutroaimon. 
The type was collected at Bodega Point on the cliffs above the 
ocean, looking towards the west. It was in bloom in April and 
again in July and appears, like so many plants on the Pacific 
Coast, to be a plant that blooms throughout the year. 
“Crepis Cusickii 
Stems erect, simple or branching from the base and below the 
middle, striate, 3 dm. high, sparingly floccose-tomentose, and with 
some gland-tipped hairs which become more numerous on the 
upper part: radical leaves oblanceolate-oblong, with broad mar- 
gined petioles as long as the blade, together 1.5 dm. long, sheath- 
ing at base; blade laciniately dentate to entire with apex acute, 
base tapering to the petiole, 2-4 cm. wide ; cauline leaves similar 
but sessile, diminishing upwards, the lower entire to laciniately 
dentate, the upper from dentate to entire, apiculate, tapering to @ 
clasping base, sparingly ciliate : flowering stems with 2-4 heads 
cymosely branched and terminating stout peduncles, the earliest 
shortest ; bractlets few, narrowly subulate-attenuate, as long as the 
outer involucral scales: heads 2 cm. high, the involucral scales in 
two ranks, the outer 3 mm. long, the inner more than 1 cm., with 
green central portion and membranous margin: rays 4-6, yellow, 
turning white in fading, edged with short obtuse linear teeth, each 
tipped with a tuft of white wool: pappus soft, white, capillary and 
barbellate : akenes 10-ribbed, oblong, tapering but slightly at each 
end, glabrous. 
This was collected by William C. Cusick, July, 1902, on the 
western slope of the Cascade Mountains, near the southern boun- 
dary of Oregon. It is no. 2872 of his collection. 
CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 
