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763. Gnaphalium purpureum Iv. — Sierra de la Laguna. 



764. Gnaphalium gracile HBK. Growing on the sandy- 

 dry beds of streams. 



765. Franseria camphorata Greene. Abundant in the 

 vicinity of Pescadero. It extends northward to the foothills of 

 San Pedro Martir. 



FAXONIA gen. no\^ Heads heterogamous, radiate, flowers of 

 the ray $ , of the disk $ . Involucre of few, narrow bracts, sub 

 2-seriate and slightly unequal, some of the outer embracing the 

 ray-flowers. Receptacle convex, palese, membranaceous linear. 

 Ligule of the ray-flowers rudimentary. Style glabrous, acuminate. 

 Akenes somewhat curved, without pappus, apparently fertile. 

 Flowers of the disk yellow, with deeply and somewhat irregularly 

 cleft limb. Stamens distinct or two occasionally joined. Anthers 

 short. Style branches linear, stigmatic on the inner surface 

 nearly to the somewhat dilated truncate tip. Akenes with a 

 pappus of irregular slender awns. 



Named in honor of Mr. C. E. Faxon, whose exquisite draw- 

 ings for the Sylva of North America have placed him in the 

 front rank of botanical artists. 



766. F. PUSILI.A.* Plant (only one seen) 8 cm. high, branch- 

 ing from near the base, villous all over with many -jointed hairs 

 tipped with capitate glands: leaves opposite, lanceolate, unequal- 

 sided, 1-2 cm. long, dentate, the teeth small, obtuse, and remote, 

 the veins marked by oil glands; petiole very slender equaling, or 

 in the upper many times exceeding the blade, dilated and some- 

 what clasping at base: inflorescence axillary; heads ovate 3-4 

 mm. high, 10-15 flowered: bracts of the involucre 6-8, nearly 

 equal, lanceolate, with somewhat foliaceous tips, 2-4 of them 

 curved, complicate and embracing the ray-akenes: receptacle not 

 villous, bracts narrowly linear more or less united: ray-flowers 

 with pubescent tube and nearly obsolete ligule; style branches 

 long-acuminate; akenes apparently fertile, glabrous, curved, 

 striate, compressed, i^ mm. long: disk flowers 2 mm. long, 



* Plate XXXI. r, whole plant enlarged; 2, head; 3, ray-flower with 

 embracing bract; 4, same with flower drawn out; 5, bract of the receptacle; 

 6, disk-flower; 7, same opened; 8, stamen. 



