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Franseria dtjmosa, Nutt. Common on foothills about Los Angeles 

 Bay, growing H to 2 feet high. (559, 564.) 



Franseria tenuifolia, Gray. ''Istafiate"; a remedy for liver 

 complaints, used by filling the shoes with its leaves. Muleje. (10.) 



Eclipta alba, Hassk. High in the mountains above Guaymas. 

 (220.) 



Vigciera laciniata, Gray. Compact, suffrutescent. 2 feet high. 

 Abundant on the mountains about Los Angeles Bay. (529 ) 



Viguiera Parishii, Greene, — which may be a variety of V. 

 deltoidea. A form with more numerous heads. About 3 feet 

 high, forming large bunches in the canons above Los Angeles Bay. 

 (530 ) 



Helianthus annuus. Muleje. (6.) 



Encelia farinosa, Gray. The stems exude a resin which is used 

 as incense in the churches. Ravines about Guaymas. (111.) 



Verbesina (Pterophyton) Palmeri. Sufi'i uticose, forming 

 large bunches 3 or 4 feet high, scabrous throughout ; stems not 

 winged : leaves opposite, the upper alternate, triangular or rhombic- 

 ovate, more or less abruptly contracted to a broadly winged auriculately 

 clasping petiole, acute, repandly few-toothed or entire, 3 inches long 

 or less : heads loosely panicled, on slender peduncles, about h inch 

 high ; inner bracts thin, erect, linear, acute or acuminate, the outer 

 herbaceous, spatulate-oblong, obtuse, somewhat spreading: rays about 

 10, neutral, 4 or 5 lines long: acheues obovate, pubescent or some 

 only glandular-scabrous, the thin wing ciliate ; awns 2, erect or 

 spreading, equalling the corolla. — In canons above Los Angeles 

 Bay. (528.) 



Leptosyne parthenioides, Gray. With the foliage of Coreo- 

 carpus parthenioides, Benth., as figured in Bot. Sulphur, but the 

 achenes mostly narrow and nearly wingless, the lobed margin only 

 rarely distinctly developed. L. heterocarpa is with little doubt a form 

 of this species with the lobed margin of the achene in most cases 

 prominently developed. Near a waterfall high in the mountains 

 above Guaymas. (299.) 



Leptosyne parthenioides, var. dissecta. (L. dissecta, Gray; 

 Acoma dissecta, Benth. in Bot. Sulphur, t. 17.) With the more dis- 

 sected foliage of Bentham's figure, the achenes rather broider than in 

 the last, the margin either entire or lobed. It would seem that the 

 three species that have been described should probably be considered 

 as forms of one, with very polymorphous achenes. — Shady mountain- 

 sides near Los Angeles Bay. (6G0.) 



