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as long, channelled above: flowers in a few (1 to 4) few-flowered 

 mostly sessile heads, rarely solitary: sepals 2 or 3 lines long, the 

 inner usually shorter, acuminate, scariously margined : stamens 3 : 

 capsule oblong, acutish, 1 1 lines long : seeds smooth and shining. — 

 On the Chowchilla River, Merced County, California {J. W. Congdon, 

 June, 1885). Somewhat resembling fasciculate forms oi J. bufonius, 

 but the stems not branched and heads kw^ the flowers triandrous, and 

 the seeds smoother and shining. 



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