COMPOSITE. 455 



tifid, the lobes almost linear : involucre well imbricated, less than half-inch high ; outermost 

 bracts ovate, innermost linear, all scarious with green or purplish tip and centre : corolla 

 yellow : receptacle almost destitute of bristles : akeues 15-ribbed, five of the ribs angulate- 

 prominent : one or two stronger pappus-bristles persistent. Bull. Calif. Acad. i. 194. 

 S. California, on Coronados Islands, off San Diego, Greene. 



M. foliosa. Between J\f. obtusa and M. inainu, p. 423, with habit of M. saratilis, but an an- 

 nual, with much smaller heads of yellow flowers, glabrous : stem a foot or two high, erect, 

 much branched, very leafy even to the branchlets : leaves lanceolate, most of them laciniate- 

 pinnatifid, 2 to 4 inches long, uppermost linear-attenuate : heads short-pecluncled, 3 to 5 lines 

 high : bracts of the involnare lanceolate, rather obtuse : akeues somewhat equally 10-costate : 

 pappus wholly deciduous, leaving neither bristles nor crown. Island of San Clemente, off 

 Southern California, Nevin & Lijon, April, 1885. Connects the Leucoseris of Nuttall with 

 his Leptoseris. 



M. saxatilis, TORK. & GRAY, p. 423. Under this may be more than one species, not only 

 the M. tenuifotia, Torr. & Gray, but also a larger-flowered one, M. altixsima, Greene, Bull. 

 Calif. Acad. 1. c., of mountains of Kern Co., Mrs. Lai/ne-Curran, said to be annual (but not 

 seen here) : probably same from Ojai, Peckham. But the characters are not yet clear. 



226. HIEBACIUM, Tourn. 



H. longipilum., TORR., p. 426. Cancel the var. spathulatum, which should be trans- 

 ferred to 



H. Marianum, WILLD., var. spathulatum. A mountain form, with leaves all or 

 mainly radical and unusually barbate-hispid. Pilosella spathulata, Schultz Bip. in Flora, 

 1862. Tuscarora or Two-top Mountain, Perm., Porter and Trail!. Green. 



H. Brandegei, Greene, Bull. C'alif. Acad. i. 194. Santa Lucia Mountains, Brander/ee, fide 

 Greene, which we have not seen, appears to be the same as the plant of the same distiict, 

 coll. G. R. Vasey (not Parry as stated), and referred to //. argutum, Nutt., on p. 428. 



