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Franseria dubiosa, Nutt. Common on foothills about Los Angeles 

 Bay, growing IJ to 2 feet high. (559, 564.) 



Franseria tenuifolia, Gray. " Istafiate " ; a remedy for liver 

 complaints, used by filling the shoes with its leaves. Muleje. (10.) 



EcLiPTA ALBA, Hassk. High in the mountains above Guaymas. 

 (220.) 



ViGDiERA LACiNiATA, Gray. Compact, suffrutescent, 2 feet high. 

 Abundant on the mountains about Los Angeles Bay. (529 ) 



ViGUiERA Parishii, Greene, — which may be a variety of V. 

 deltoidea. A form with more numerous heads. About 3 feet 

 high, forming large bunches in ihe canons above Los Angeles Bay. 

 (530.) 



Helianthus annuus. Muleje. (6.) 



Encelia farinosa, Gray. The stems exude a resiu which is used 

 as incense in the churches. Ravines about Guaymas. (HI-) 



Verbesina (Pterophyton) Palmeri. Suttiuticose, forming 

 large bunches 3 or 4 feet high, scabrous throughout ; stems not 

 winged : leaves opposite, the upper alternate, triangular or rhombic- 

 ovate, more or less abruptly contracted to a broadly winged auriculately 

 clasping petiole, acute, repandly few-toothed or entire, 3 inches long 

 or less : heads loosely panicled, on slender peduncles, about i inch 

 high ; inner bracts thin, erect, linear, acute or acuminate, the outer 

 herbaceous, spatulate-oblong, obtuse, somewhat spreading: rays about 

 10, neutral, 4 or 5 lines long: achenes obovate, pubescent or some 

 only glandular-scabrous, the thin wing ciliate ; awns 2, erect or 

 spreading, equalling the corolla. — In caiions above Los Angeles 

 Bay. (528.) 



Leptosyne parthenioides, Gray. With the foliage of Coreo- 

 carpus parthenioides, Benth., as figured in Bot. Sulphur, but the 

 achenes mostly narrow and nearly wingless, the lobed margin only 

 rarely distinctly developed. L. heterocarpa is with little doubt a form 

 of this species with the lobed margin of the achene in most cases 

 prominently developed. Near a waterfall high in the mountains 

 above Guaj^mas. (299.) 



Leptosyne parthenioides, var. dissecta. {L. dissecta, Gray ; 

 Acoma dissecta, Benth. in Bot. Sulphur, t. 17.) With the more dis- 

 sected foliage of Bentham's figure, the achenes rather broiider than m 

 the last, the margin either entire or lobed. It would seem that the 

 three species that have been described should probably be considered 

 as forms of one, with very polymorj^hous achenes. — Shady mountain- 

 sides near Los Angeles Bay. (660.) 



