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lanceolate- ovate, acute, varying in size ; rays i^ in. or more in 

 length, y^ in. wide, 3-toothed at apex; conelike center iX in. 

 long ; disk flowers brown. This grows in the wet meadows 

 along Kings River. The specimen which was collected is too 

 young for satisfactory determination, and more fully developed 

 specimens ought to be collected so as to show variation if there is 

 any. The specimens are quite diflferent in foliage from the type. 



Hulsea algida Gray. Stems several, from woody roots, about 

 6 in. high, rather stout, woolly, glandular, terminated by solitary 

 heads almost ij4 in. in diameter. Leaves linear, sessile, generally 

 folded, toothed or entire, those at base sheathing the stem, twice 

 as long as the stem-leaves, 2-3 in. Involucre densely clothed 

 with white wool, with narrow, pointed bracts of about the same 

 length in several rows, often purple at tip ; rays }i in. long, 

 pointed, but little surpassing the broad, densely flowered disk. 

 Found only above timber line, collected on Kearsarge Pass and 

 Harrisons Pass. 



Wyethia foliosa Congdon. Stems i-several, from a thick, 

 woody root, ashy throughout from a close, white, appressed 

 pubescence. Leaves lanceolate on broad petioles about half as 

 long as the blade, together 6 in. or more long, with the margin 

 wavy or entire. Heads solitary at the end of the stem on a long 

 peduncle, i^ in. in diameter ; involucre with the bracts tapering 

 to a point, of diff'erent lengths ; rays about Yz in. long, obtuse or 

 toothed at apex. Pappus a crown of chaffy scales and 2 long 

 awns, one reaching almost to the divisions of the corolla of the 

 disk flowers. Converse Basin, 



Balsamorrhiza deitoidea Nutt. Leaves mostly at base, 

 large, arrow-shaped, the blades a foot or so long, 6-8 in. wide at 

 base, on petioles about half as long, clothed with a fine pubes- 

 cence. Flowering stems 1-2 ft. high with few large heads termin- 

 ating long, naked peduncles, a foot or more long ; stems with but 

 few leaves and these small, 1-2 in. long. Bracts of the involucre 

 ovate, pointed, in more than one row, ^ in. long. Heads 2 in. 

 in diameter, with the yellow rays ^ in. long, toothed at apex. 

 Bubbs Creek, in dry places, on the hill above Kings River. This 

 blooms soon after the snow melts, and in July is likely to be 

 found only in fruit. 



Madia villosa Eastwood. Annual, erect, i>^ ft. high, simple 

 except at the inflorescence, glandular and thickly clothed with 

 fine, white, spreading hairs. Leaves linear, sessile, nerved, 1-3 in- 

 long, obtuse, rather thickly clothing the stem. Heads i-i^ in. 

 in diameter, the yellow rays 3-lobed half way to the base with 



