PLANTS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. 97 



Galium Wrightii, Gray, PI. Wright, i. 80. On San Antonio 

 Mountains at 5,000-7,000 ft. alt., Aug., 1893, Prof. McClatchie. 



Cnicus Hallii, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xix. 56. In a meadow 

 at the Yucaipe Schoolhouse, near Redlands, at about 2,000 ft. alt., 

 July, 1899. 



Cynara Cardunculus, Linn. Sp. Pi. 827. Rare as a way- 

 side escape at San Bernardino. Abundant and well established 

 over a hillside pasture at Trujillo's Ranch, on the road from Rincon 

 to Smith's Mountains, San Diego Co., June, 1897. 



Erigeron Breweri, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. vi. 541. Hesperia 

 (near the schoolhouse), at about 3,500 ft. alt., at the desert base of 

 the San Bernardino Mts., June, 1895. 



Chrysopsis fastigiata, Greene, Pitt, iii, 296. Common in dry 

 plains or washes throughout the intramontane region below 3,000 ft. 

 alt. Witch Creek, Alderson. Santa Monica, Hosse. Los Angeles, 

 Davidson. Pasadena, McClatchie. San Bernardino (type); Mur- 

 rietta; Temecula. Also in the desert region at Whitewater. July- 

 November. 



Plants 3-8 dm. high, erect or spreading; spring leaves 3-5 cm. 

 long, oblong-spatulate, narrowed to a margined petiole, mucronate, 

 lax, clothed with a pubescence denser and softer than that of the 

 later leaves, soon withering and leaving the main stems naked; 

 rameal leaves small (5 mm.), oblong-acute, closely sessile, rigid, 

 appressed, together with the branches somewhat viscid and canes- 

 cently villous with long, softish hairs ; involucre cylindrical ; scales 

 in 5 series, villous; rays 8-12, ligules ovate, 5 mm. long, minutely 

 3-toothed at the summit ; short outer pappus distinctly squamellate ; 

 hairs of the achene toothed at apex. 



The amount and softness of the villousness vary considerably in 

 different specimens, being mostly more copious and softer in those 

 from the desert and from near the coast than in the San Bernardino 

 plants. The short outer pappus is readily seen with a hand lens, but 

 its squamellate character is more apparent under a low power of the 

 microscope. The plant is of the C. villosa group and is included in 

 C. villosa echioides, Gray, Syn. Fl. I. ii. 123, but is too hastily placed 

 by its segregator in the Ammodia section, of which it has none of 

 the technical characters, nor has it the aspect of the plants of that 

 section. 



