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Hofmeisteria pubescens. Herbaceous, rather fleshy, pubescent 

 with short spreading somewhat scurfy haiis, the stout branches oppo- 

 site or in threes : leaves alternate, broadly ovate in outline, 3-parted 

 with segments deeply lobed or toothed, 6 or 8 lines long or less, the 

 stout petiole much longer: peduncles solitary, elongated (6 to 10 

 inches long), bracteate with several scattered very narrowly linear 

 bracts ; heads campanulate, very many-flowered, ^ inch high, with 

 numerous linear setaceously acuminate bracts and a convex naked 

 receptacle : corolla white, very narrow, the cylindrical tliroat as long 

 as and little broader than the tube : pappus of 2 hispidulous seta? 

 longer than the corolla and 2 broad irregularly fimbriate paleae. — 

 At Muleje, in rounded masses on hillsides and stony ridges. (422.) 



Malperia* tenuis. Slender, a foot high with ascending branches, 

 slightly scabrous : leaves narrowly linear, entire or occasionally with 

 a few teeth, subacuminate, 1 or 2 inches long or less : heads ^ inch 

 high, narrowed at base, the short outer bracts descending upon the 

 peduncle: corolla (apparently white) very slender, rather contracted 

 at the throat : the short stigmas scarcely at all exserted : achenes 

 slightly hispid on the angles. — Abundant on stony ridges near Los 

 Angeles Bay. (567.) 



Eupatorium sagittatum, Gray. Growing 8 feet high, over 

 bushes and hedges ; flowers lilac. Guaymas. (87.) 



Brickellia Coulteri, Gray. Guaymas, by garden fences. (62.) 



Brickellia floribunda, Gray, var., with the inflorescence re- 

 duced to a terminal sessile compound cyme, and the achenes more 

 pubescent. Shrubby, 3 to 5 feet high, under overhanging rocks on 

 an island in Guaymas harbor. (322 ; 323, with entire leaves.) 



Gutierrezia Euthamue, Ton*. & Gray. Los Angeles Bay. 

 (533.) 



Aplopapptjs spinulosus, DC. Foothills ; Los Angeles Bay. 

 (539.) 



Bigelovia diffusa, Gray. Compact, 3 feet high. In saline 

 localities near the beach at Guaymas. (212, 212.V.) 



* MALPERIA, a new genus of Arjerateie. He.nl several-flowered. Invo- 

 lucre narrowly turbinate, of several rows of very unequal thin narrow nerved 

 bracts. Receptacle naked, flat. Corolla narrow, the throat not dilated, the 

 short lobes erect. Anthers with ovate obtuse appendages. Style-branches 

 short, filiform, truncate, included. Achenes pentagonal, slender. Pappus of 3 

 hispidulous setae as long as the corolla, wing-margined at base, and 3 or 4 broad 

 truncate erose paleae. — An erect annual, with narrow sessile and mostly entire 

 leaves, and the heads solitary or subcorymbose on short peduncles. Near 

 Hofmeisteria, but very different in habit. 



