192 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



Dr. C. C. Parry; also in the same neighborhood in 1884, by 

 Mrs. Curran. This and L. nana form a group by them- 

 selves, well marked by the peculiar, cartilaginous-aristate, 

 inner scales of the involucre. The stemless habit signifies 

 nothing. Even L. ranudosa I have found in the same 

 condition, and it is perhaps rare in L. nana, most of 

 our specimens of which have branches 3 — 5 inches long. 

 These are very stout, rigid and depressed or prostrate. 

 This character, together with its denser wooliness, larger 

 heads, and the deep sultan-red of both the corolla and pap- 

 pus, the brilliant coloring of the latter being as fresh in our 

 20-year-old specimens as in those collected last season, are 

 of specific value in this genus. In the slender, erect L. 

 Parryi, the corollas are pink, and the pappus only reddish 

 brown. This should come in before L. nana, as being in- 

 termediate between that and L. ramulosa. 



Franseria camphorata. 



Shrubby at base, a foot or two high, with spreading 

 branches; canescent-tomentose throughout, resinous, and 

 with a strong camphorate odor: leaves sharply triangular- 

 ovate in outline, bipinnatifid: sterile racemes rather loose, 

 their involucres very sharply toothed, on pedicels 3 — 4 lines 

 long; fertile involucres densely glandular-pubescent, glo- 

 bose, with short, stout, spine-tipped tuberculations, mostly 

 3-seeded. — F. bipinnatifida, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xi. 115. 



Collected by the writer on Guadalupe, and also in a less 

 tomentose state on Cedros, 1885. A most distinct species: 

 the 3-seeded involucres small and bony, their spiny tuber- 

 culations not flattened. 



Lasthenia (Hologymne) Coulteri. L. gldbrata, var. Coulteri Gray, Syn. 

 Fl. i, Part ii, 324. 



The discovery of the new genus Crockeria, a plant wholly 

 undistinguishable from the common Lasthenia glabrata, except 

 by the akenes, is an event which naturally raises the value 



