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fleshy herbage, strongly saline and hard to dry, and its 

 longer, less caDescent akenes. 



Senecio Cedrosensis. 



Shrubby, about a foot high, much branched above; branch- 

 lets and foliage somewhat pubescent and glandular: leaves 

 an inch or more long, oblong-lanceolate, deeply pinnatifid, 

 the short lobes deeply toothed: heads in threes, or solitary 

 at the ends of the branchlets, less than a half inch high: 

 involucral scales narrow, acuminate: flowers not seen. 



Rocky summits of the northern part of Cedros Island, 

 1885. The specimens are not in flower, but the peculiari- 

 ties of habit and foliage mark strongly enough a new spe- 

 cies. The leaves are like those of Pedicularis Canadensis. 



Stephanoraeria coronaria. 



Annual or biennial, resembling S. exigua, but the numer- 

 ous white-plumose pappus-bristles deciduous above the 

 abruptly paleaceous base, leaving a crown of setose scales: 

 akenes clavate, sharply 5-angled and quite smooth, with no 

 traces of corrugation. 



Santa Lucia Mountains, August, 1885, T. S. Brandegee. 



Hieracium Brandegei. 



Perennial, a foot or two high, paniculate from near the 

 base: leaves spatulate-oblong to ligulate-lanceolate, entire, 

 crinite-hirsute, and with some close, white, stellular to- 

 mentum, the latter extending to the branches and the glan- 

 dular involucre: flowers yellow: akenes short-columnar: 

 pappus nearly white. 



Santa Lucia Mountains, T. S. Brandegee. 



Malacothrix (Malacolepis) insularis. 



Annual, glabrous, a foot or two high, corymbosely panic- 

 ulate above, leafy below: leaves oblong-lanceolate in out- 

 line, lacimate-cleft to the middle, two inches long, sessile 



