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middle into four equal narrow lobes; coronal appendages nearly half 

 the length of the blade, thin, 2-parted, the outer segment linear, entire, 

 the inner oblong and lacerate ; claw naked, broadly auriculate : stamens 

 included, unequal: capsule oblong, shortly stipitate. — Of the S. Lem- 

 moni and S. occidentalis group. On shady slopes in Long Meadow, 

 Tulare Co., California; Dr. E. Palmer, June, 1888 (n. 185). 



Erigeron sanctaru:m. Perennial and dwarfish, the branches of 

 the rootstock very slender and naked, bearing one to several erect or 

 subdecumbent 1-flowered stems, leafy except toward the top. a span 

 high or less, rough-pubescent : leaves entire, narrowly oblanceolate, 

 becoming linear above, the lower an inch long (or sometimes longer 

 and with a slender petiole): heads medium-sized; involucre of nu- 

 merous very narrow acuminate bracts in two series, the outer hispid, 

 densely so at base: rays many, purple or fading to white; pappus 

 simple. — Not closely allied to any other of the Euerigeron section. 

 Collected by Mr. T. S. Brandegee in the Santa Inez Mountains, Cali- 

 fornia, also near Santa Barbara, and on the island of Santa Rosa, 

 1888. 



B^eria (Edb^eria) Parishii. Low and slender, much branched, 

 pubescent with loose woolly hairs : leaves narrowly linear, acute, 

 mostly pinnately cleft with one to several pairs of lobes : heads 

 small, 2 lines high or rarely more ; involucral bracts 10 to 12, thin and 

 lax, the midvein not prominent : ligules short : style-tips truncate, 

 with an oblique apiculation on the inner side : achenes slender, with- 

 out pappus. — Resembling epappose small-headed forms of /!. gracilis, 

 differing in the pubescence and cleft leaves and in the apiculate style- 

 tips, and approaching the B. platycarpha group. On the foothills of 

 the San Bernardino Mountains, at 1500 feet altitude; collected by 

 Mr. S. B. Parish, in May, 1888. 



Bahia Palmeri. Low and slender (not 6 inches high), somewhat 

 soft-pubescent and resinous-atomiferous : leaves mostly alternate, en- 

 tire, very narrowly linear, an inch long or less: heads sessile and 

 somewhat clustered, narrowly turbinate, 2-6-flowered ; involucral 

 bracts 3 or 4, narrowly oblanceolate, acutish, whollj green and her- 

 baceous: rays none; corolla-lobes ">, more or less unequal : achenea 

 rather broad, obtusely quadrangular, finely striate and gland ular- 

 puberulent ; pappus of 8 to 1<) thin obtuse oblong-spatulate denticu- 

 late chaff, narrowed and thickened toward the base, half tin- length 

 of the corolla-tube. — An anomalous species, intermediate between 

 Schkuhria and Bahia as defined by Dr. Gray, and tending t'> invali- 

 date the distinction drawn by him between the genera. It is placed 



