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pink with a reddish rib, unequal, the 3 outer broadly oblong, the 

 3 inner cuneate-spatulate : filaments glabrous: achenes 3-angled, 

 glabrous. 



In dry soil, southern California. Spring and summer. 



A dwarf species related to Eriogomtm marifolium, the foilage of 

 the two species being quite similar. The plants of E. polypodum 

 that have come to my notice produce numerous scapes, each of 

 which is topped by ahead or aconjested umbel instead of the open 

 more or less straggly umbel characteristic of E. marifolium. The 

 broadly-oblong outer calyx-segments and the cuneate-spatulate 

 inner segments together with the glabrous filaments all serve to 

 distinguish the species here described as new from E. marifolium. 



The original specimens were collected at Long Meadow, Tulare 

 County, California, June 7-14, 1888, by Dr. Edward Palmer at an 

 altitude of 2,200-2,800 meters. Number 204. 



Eriogonum Harfordii. 



Perennial by horizontal rootstocks. Foliage fioccose-tomen- 

 tose : leaves basal ; blades spatulate, 2-6 cm. long, obtuse, crispen, 

 densely white-tomentose beneath, floccose or glabrate above; 

 petioles longer than the blades : scapes erect, 8-10 dm. tall, simple 

 below, forking above, stout: bracts somewhat foliaceous below, 

 scale-like above, involucres sessile, solitary or several at the ends 

 of the ultimate branchlets, turbinate-campanulate, 5 mm. long, 

 fluted; segments triangular-ovate, obtuse: calices white or pink, 

 3.5-4 mm. long, villous at the base; segments unequal, the 3 

 outer orbicular-oval, the 3 inner cuneate, longer than the outer, all 

 erose or crisped : filaments villous near the base : achenes sharply 

 3-angled. 



On dry hillsides in valleys, Mendocina County, California. 



Summer. 



Near Eriogomtm afjine but more robust and of stricter 

 habit. The leaf-blades are broadest above the middle, the in- 

 volucres twice the size of those of E. affine and the calices pubes- 

 cent at the base as contrasted with the glabrous calices of its 

 northern relative. 



Named for Mr. W. G. W. Harford, who collected the speci- 

 mens in company with Dr. A. Kellogg, in Long Valley, Mendo- 

 cina County, California. Number 874. 



Eriogonum minimum. 

 A dwarf perennial with minutely canescent foliage. Stems 



