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cusp: akenes not compressed, strongly 5-angled: pappus 

 short, arranged in five separate bundles, which are more or 

 less united at base, or sometimes completely joined into a 

 flat, barbellate awn! 



Near Epperson's, in Lake County, 1884; Mrs. M. K. 

 Curran. In aspect much like L. ramulosa; but with its 

 broad, glandular marginal leaves it also appears distinct 

 enough at sight; but the character of the pappus is very 

 remarkable. 



Lessingia nemaclada. 



A foot or two high, paniculately parted into slender 

 branches and numerous filiform branchlets: leaves lightly 

 floccose above, beneath, as are the involucres, minutely glan- 

 dular-roughened : involucres solitaiy, terminating the branch- 

 lets, 3 — 5-flowered, their scales with spreading tips: style- 

 appendages with prominent, subulate tip: pappus of few or 

 many awn-like bristles, which are sometimes united at base, 

 as in the preceding. 



El Dorado and Colusa Counties, 1883-4; Mrs. Curran. 

 Evidently a common species in those parts of the State; not 

 likely to pass into the preceding, the involucres of which 

 have appressed scales, and whose style-tips are without 

 cusp. Readily distinguishable from equally slender states 

 of L. ramulosa and L. leptoclada by its pappus. These two 

 species will form a separate group in the genus. 



Lessingia Parryi. 



Somewhat woolly throughout: stems 2 — 10 inches high, 

 erect and, as compared with L. nana, very slender; heads 

 solitary, or few and spicately arranged at the ends of the 

 branches, 12 — 18-flowered: involucre 12 — 18-flowered, its 

 bracts as in L. nana: corollas pink: pappus rufous: style 

 appendages bristly, but without pointed tips. — L. nana, var. 

 caulescens, Gray, Syn. Fl. ii. 163. Found in oak openings 

 above Keene Station, Kern County, in September, 1881, by 



