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Trichocoronis Wrightii Gray. — Comonclu, in clamp 

 places. 



HoFMEiSTERiA PLURISETA Gray. These specimeus from 

 widely-separated localities, although differing much in hab- 

 it, pubescence, breadth of leaves and oven in pappus, 

 hardly warrant separation as species. Those found at Pur- 

 isima are nearly glabrous, with thin leaves somewhat cor- 

 date at base, nearly an inch wide: pappus of 5-6 scabrous 

 awns and as many broad, erose palepe. The Santa Maria 

 forms are densely pubescent, with leaves often reduced to 

 mere vestiges at the ends of long peduncles and pappus of 

 8-10 long awns with the intermediate palete prolonged into 

 slender bristles. Those from San Ignacio are intermediate 

 in every respect. — Purisima, San Ignacio, Santa Maria. 



HoFMEiSTERiA FASCICULATA (Bentli.) Growing in dense 

 clumps along the seashore. The leaves vary from 3-lobed 

 and one-half inch broad to twice three-parted and five 

 times the size. The paleee of the pappus are evidently nor- 

 mally five in number, but are sometimes reduced to two or 

 three, in which case they are of unequal width, and can 

 easily be divided.— Magdalena and Santa Margarita Islands. 



HOFMEISTERIA PUBESCENS Watson. — Growing in dense 

 clumps among rocks and in canons. — San Benito. 



Malperia tenuis Watson. Apparently this species, al- 

 though the style tips, somewhat enlarged upwards are 

 more exserted, and the awns and very short paleae are each 

 five in number. The specimens of this species and of Hqf- 

 meisteria show that too much reliance must not be placed 

 upon slight distinctions of pappus, and especially on the 

 number of segments into which a paleaceous crown may be 

 divided. — San Jose de Gracia. 



Eupatorium:, sp. A large shrubby species. — San Julio 

 Caiion. 



Eupatorium, sp. A shrubby species. — Comondu. 



