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broader and shorter and the divisions less pronounced ; entire 

 leaf 3-4 in. long and about an inch wide, clothed with cottony 

 wool. Heads solitary at the ends of long, naked stems, slender ; 

 the inner bracts of the involucre i_^ in. long, very slender and 

 pointed, often tinged with reddish purple. Flowers yellow, with 

 narrow rays, purplish on the lower side ; pappus conspicuous, on 

 a thread-like stem 1/2-% in. long, as long as or longer than the 

 white pappus. 



This varies extremely from slender plants 6 in. high to stout 

 ones from a branched caudex, 2 ft. or more. The leaves and 

 heads in the latter are also much larger. Millwood, Bubbs Creek. 



Agoseris (probably new species). Leaves oblanceolate, from 

 entire to sparingly lobed or toothed, about 6 in. long, 3^ in. wide, 

 slightly pubescent with cobwebby hairs. Heads terminating 

 slender, weak stems; involucre from Yz-^/i in. long, hairy and 

 glandular, especially at base ; flowers yellow, with the rays 

 scarcely exserted ; pappus white, on a hair-lil5.e stem. The mate- 

 rial is too young for accurate determination. Under the red- 

 woods, near Big Boulder Creek. 



