42 Piper : New and noteworthy Northwestern Plants 



Apparently nearest A. dimarpha T. & G., from which its taller 

 habit and very different heads easily separate it. 



"'Artemisia Suksdorfii 



Artemisia hcterophylla Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. II, 400. 

 1 84 1. Not Besser. 1834. 



Artemisia vulgaris var. Calif or nica Besser, Linnaea, 15 : 91. 

 1 841, and Gray, Syn. Fl. 2 l : 373, in part. Not A. Calif ornica 

 Lessing. 183 1. 



Herbaceous perennial, the numerous usually simple stems in 

 large tufts, 1-1.5 meters high: stems terete, coarsely striate, 

 sparsely pubescent when young, glabrate : leaves numerous, mostly 

 lanceolate, but sometimes broader, acute, entire or sparingly den- 

 tate or even laciniate, 6-10 cm. long, bright green and glabrate 

 above, densely tomentose beneath with a permanent white tomen- 

 tum : panicle pyramidal or elongate, 3-6 dm. long, the lower 

 suberect branches from the axils of scarcely reduced leaves, the 

 upper branches short and densely congested : heads cylindrical- 

 oblong, small, 3-4 mm. long, 5-8-flowered : involucre pale green, 

 shining, sparsely fioccose, pubescent when young, glabrate : bracts 

 obtuse, with a very narrow hyaline margin : flowers glabrous or 

 with but few glands. 



This Artemisia is common on the bluffs of Puget Sound and 

 ranges from British Columbia to north California, apparently 

 always in the immediate proximity of the sea. It has been dis- 

 tributed by Suksdorf under another varietal name that has already 

 been used. The following specimens have been examined : 



British Columbia: Burrard Inlet, Macoun, 27 July, 1887. 



Washington: Fairhaven, Suksdorf, no. 980, 5 July, 1890 

 (type); Piper, no. 2508; Henderson, in 1892 ; Seattle, Piper, in 

 1897; Montesano, Heller, no. 3076. 



Oregon 



Howell, no. 147, J 



California : Sea coast, Shelter Cove, Humboldt Co., Bo- 



lander, no. 6482. 



Crepis glareosa 



Perennial, tufted, with one to five stems from a stout caudex, 

 8-12 cm. high, sparsely white tomentose throughout, not at all 

 hirsute : stems stout, scarcely striate, bearing one to three heads : 

 leaves oblanceolate, 4-7 cm. long, usually deeply pinnatifid into 

 acute slender lobes, rarely nearly entire : heads 2 cm. high, on 

 stout peduncles about 3 cm. long; involucre of about 12 acute 



