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rocky or sandy places from San Simeon Bay northward to Humboldt 

 Co., chiefly near the sea ; common and variable ; or possibly a complex 

 species as here received. IJ. uhlohgifolium, Benth., of late referred here, 

 is far less tomentose than the type, and has leaves narrowed at base. A 

 plant of the State Survey (n. 6569) from Mendocino Co. is white- 

 arachnoid-tomentose throughout, even to the involucres, and its leaves 

 are nearly orbicular. The type is common on the San Francisco penin- 

 sula, flowering in summer and autumn. 



19. E. uiulnin, Dougl. in Benth. Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 413 (1837) : 

 E. auriculalum, Benth. 1. c. 412. Much taller and more slender than the 

 last, the ovate or oblong leaves {% — 2 in. long) densely tomentose 

 beneath, glabrate above : peduncle and loose panicle 1 — 2 ft. high, 

 glabrous and glaucescent, or somewhat floccose-tomentose : involucres 

 2 — 3 lines long, nearly or quite glabrous, 3 6 in each cluster : fl. 

 glabrous or villous, 1 — l^^ lines long, white, reddish or sulphur-yellow. 

 Var. paucitloruin, Wats. Panicle more diffuse, the involucres solitary 

 or in pairs, the peduncle often inflated. Var. obloiigifoliuin, Wats. E. 

 ajfi)ie, Benth. Often tomentose throughout ; leaves attenuate to a long 

 slender petiole ; bracts sometimes foliaceous. — Common throughout the 

 State in various forms, or possibly a complex species ; the type on 

 clayey hills and banks not far from the sea ; the varieties belonging to 

 the interior, the last one chiefly northward and commonly or always 

 yellow-flowered. July — Oct. 



-i- -1— Shrubs iriiJi fascicles of smaller leaves in the arils; involucres capi- 

 tate, the clusters more or less cymose-uvihellate. 



20. E. parvifoliuiii, Smith, in Rees Cycl. (1815). Branched from the 

 base and tufted, 3 ft. high, more or less white-tomentose throughout : 

 leaves broadly ovate or oblong, %—% in. long, on very short petioles, 

 revolute and undulate, in age glabrate above : peduncles short ; heads 

 few and dense : fl. glabrous, white or with a tinge of rose, 1}/^ lines 

 long. — On the seacoast from Santa Cruz, Anderson, to Santa Barbara. 



21. E. fasciculatnin, Benth. Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 411 (1837) : E. 



rosmarinifolium, Nutt. PI. Gamb. 164 (1848): J<J. eric se folium, T. & G. 

 Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 170 (1870). Stems woody and brittle, mostly 2—3 

 ft. high, with many fascicles of rigid, almost heath-like leaves, these 

 ^i — 9i in. long, oblong-linear, acute, revolute, subsessile, deep green and 

 shining above, tomentose beneath : peduncles short, bearing a cymosely 

 divided umbel of many sessile 5-toothed involucres : fl. white or pinkish, 

 1 line long. — From Santa Barbara southward, mostly near the sea ; 

 flowering almost all the year round, and a favorite food-plant with bees. 



22. E. polifoliniii, Benth. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 12 (1856) : E. fascicK- 

 latum, Wats, in part. Less woody and less brittle than the last and 



