186 EKYTHEA. 



A species coufounded with E. foliosus but differing widely from 

 any California form known to ine. Hillsides, Mariposa, July, 



Wyethia foliosa. Stems usually several from the same root, 

 ascending but not erect, 2 to 3 ft. high, stoutish, leafy, often with 

 2 or 3 heads. Leaves light green, lanceolate to oblong or even 

 ovate-lanceolate, entire, but with somewhat undulate margins, 

 pubescent with a very short, closely appressed pubescence; the 

 radical 6 to 12 in. long, tapering at base to a margined petiole; the 

 cauline several, 3 to 5 in. long, nearly or quite sessile. Heads 1 

 to 1^ in. in diameter, or rather long naked peduncles. Involucre 

 of about three series of nearly equal oblong-lanceolate to ovate- 

 lanceolate, appressed, green but not leafy bracts. Rays 10 to 15, 

 1 to 1|^ in. long. Achenes with sharply laciniate pappus, nearly 

 half as long as the achene itself, and 1 to 3 stout scabrous awns. 



This species is nearest W. angustifolia and is the plant referred to by 

 Gray in his note to the description of the latter species in the Botany 

 of California. It differs from that plant in its taller, stouter, more 

 leafy, often branching stem, its less hirsute and more appressed 

 pubescence, its shorter, less foliaceous and closely appressed involu- 

 cre. It belongs to the wooded slopes of the Sierras, ranging from 

 3,000 to 8,000 ft. 



Cnicus Tioganus. Acaulescent. Plant grayish green, with 

 mostly appressed pubescence. Leaves in a stiff" radical cluster, 

 elongated-oblong in outline, 4 to 8 in, long, strongly and lacini- 

 ately pinnatifid and prickly ; the upper and lower surfaces alike. 

 Heads 1 to 3, closely sessile, strongly leafy bracted, whitish or 

 cream -colored, 1 to IJ in. in diameter. Inner bracts not prickly. 



This peculiar acaulescent form grows frequently in the Mt. Dana 

 region from the Tioga mine to Mono Pass. It seems nearest to C. 

 foliosus, Gray. The acaulescent form of C. Druramondii, which 

 grows sparingly in the same region, differs in its purple, smaller 

 heads, its thin deep-green, scarcely prickly or laciniate leaves, 

 which are whitish underneath. 



Qilia diffusa. Section Eugilia. Annual. Stems more or less 

 glandular-pubescent above, very diffusely branching with very 

 slender filiform branches, 6 to 10 inches high. Leaves very finely 

 pinnately or bipinnately dissected, with filiform segments. Pedi- 



