COMPOSITiE. 393 



series, cauescent with au appressed pubescence: rays 50—60: acheues 

 glabrous.- Sandy places near the sea in the northern part of Santa 

 Barbara Co., Mrs. Blocliman. 



31. E. Hartwesri, Greene, Eryth. iii. 21 (1895). Tufted stems very 

 erect, a foot high, less rigid than in the foregoing, ending in a simply 

 corymbose cluster of 3—7 rather large heads; pubescence of the whole 

 plant scanty and strigose, in no degree hispid: leaves linear, with a very 

 narrow revolute margin : rays numerous, rather broad, of a pale bluish 

 purple: involucre minutely scabrous and strigose, the bracts in 2 

 slightly unequal series. — Foothills of the Sierra Nevada east of the 

 Sacramento. 



32. E. Brewcri, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. vi. 541 (1865). Stems slender, 

 erect or ascending from horizontal wiry rootstocks; herbage scabrous- 

 cinereous with minute spreading pubescence: leaves barely 1 in. long, 

 narrowly spatulate, or the uppermost linear, obtuse: heads solitary, or 

 several in a corymb, 3 — 4 lines high; involucre glabrous or granulose- 

 glandular, its bracts unequal, obtuse: rays few (12—20) and broad, 3 

 lines long, violet. — In open woods at middle elevations of the Sierra, 

 from Kern Co. northward. 



33. E. e<»iiliiiiK, Howell, Eryth. iii. 35 (Feb. 1895); E. Blasdalei, 

 Greene, 1. c. 124 (Aug. 1895). Stems tufted from a lignescent base, 

 slender, decumbent. 3^ — 1 ft. long ; herbage minutely and sparsely 

 strigf)se-pubescent: leaves narrowly linear, plane. lU in. long or more: 

 heads 1 — 5, rather large; bracts of the involucre linear-acuminate, imbri- 

 cated in about 3 series: rays very many, rather broad, violet: acheues 

 linear, strigose-pnbesceut. — Lower foothills of the Sierra, on the Stan- 

 islaus River, Blasdale, Davy, and again in the Siskiyou Mts., Howell. 



34. E. Eliii(M-l. Anter Elmeri, Greene, Pitt. ii. 170 (1891). Tufted 

 stems very slender, wiry, decumbent, 5 — 8 in. long, leafy up to the soli- 

 tary small head: leaves oblong-linear, acute, strigose-pubescent or 

 hispidulous: bracts of the involucre in 2 or 3 series, scabrous-puberuleut: 

 rays few, purplish: achenes sparsely setulose-hairy: pappus indistinctly 

 double, the outer of a few imequal short bristles. — Grand Canon of the 

 Tuolumne. Cliesnut. tfc Drevj. 



'^ ^ Rays ivholly icatUing. 



35. E. snpplex, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 353 (1868). Stems 3—6 in. 

 long, decumbent or assurgent, in a tuft, leafy except at the naked and 

 pedunculiform summit, which bears a single head; herbage more or less 

 villous-pubescent: leaves numerous, entire, spatulate-lanceolate to linear: 



