Ae Us, holosericea Nutt. tems erect, unbranched, 1-3 m, tall, commonly 
strigose and more or less yroolly-nubescent and hispid with stinging hairs, 
cnadrase, chenmmelleds; lesves S-12 em. long, lanceolate, rounded at the base, 
the marcin coarsely serrese, the teeth triangular, acute, inclined forward 
eatin : ad ’ ’ 
commonly 5-5 mm, tall, 5-7 ime wide at the bese, avex acute, closely pubescent, 
hoary, upvermost leaves gradually reduced to linear bracts, petioles 2-4 cm, 
xz P 2 hale ty 
long, surigose and vubescent; stipules oblong, mostly obtuse, membranous, 
6-10 x 3-4 rm., hairy; flowers sessile in small glomerules, the glomerules 
forming a panicle, the vistillate spikes in the upper axils, drooping, cormmon-- 
ly 3-4 em. long, the steminate in the axils beneath the pistillate, spreeding, 
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usually longer, both rubescent and more or less strigose 3 staninate sevals 
lum, lone, ovate, acute, eval, the filanents twice as long; inner nistillate } 
sevals lima. long, subrotund, the outer heal? as long, much narrower; acheone 
about 1 mm, lonc, cllintic-ovate,.smoothe 
‘forse Plains, Leiber: 1593; thetune Lills, pling G iiouck 91493 Letah ~ 
Coe, Liner 1508. Stinules of topotyves (Monterey, Calif.) are triangulane> 
a layer eiven 
lanceolate, scuminebe, Our region is, zone of ererten between the coastal 
U, holoscricea, the lesves of which are ovate, even broadly so, and coarsely 
serrate, and the interior Us serra Blume (sensu sernald) the leaves of which ag 
strictly lanceolace, and finely and evenly toothed. individuals of colonies 
very, che sheet of Leiberg 1593 at Rocky .t. Herb, hes the stems not et oll 
1 { > o + \42 = VaR - ™ hh APRAAAANE® 5 at ry =o ad — ~~ 
Sonentulose, but glevrete beneath the sorcading bristles, ithe sheet of same 
collection and ocshers at Jerkeley are as dcscribede 
