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pappus-palene 8 — 12, the 4 over the aogles of the achene somewhat 

 longer. — Sandy hills and slopes near the sea; the typical state, with 

 leaves crowded and almost entire, at Monterey only. May — Dec. 



2. E. confertifloriiiii, Gray, Proc Am. Acad. xix. 25 (1883); DC. 

 Prodr. V. 657 (1836), under Bahia. Smaller, 1—2 ft. high; leaves on the 

 flowering branches reduced and scattered, membranaceous, hoary- 

 tomentose on both faces, ternately 3 — 7 parted into linear divisions; 

 heads 2 lines high, short-peduncled or sessile in a dense terminal clus- 

 ter: involucre obovoid-oblong, of broadly oval bracts: rays 4 or 5: palete 

 of the pappus 8—14. Var. (iiscoidenm, Greene. More condensed and 

 leafy; heads broader, with more numerous flowers, but no rays. — Very 

 common on all hills; the variety in Sonoma Co. June — Dec. 



3. E. Jepsonii, Greene, Pittonia, ii. 165 (1891). SufFruticose, 2 ft. 

 high; stem white with pannose tomentum; leaves hoary on both faces, 

 pinnately divided into 5—7 narrowly linear revolute segments: inflor- 

 escence loosely cymose-corymbose, the peduucled heads 3 — 4 lines high, 

 and, with 6 — 8 oblong rays expanded, 1 in. broad: bracts of involucre 

 6—8, coriaceous, ovate: achenes with a few short hispidulous hairs, and 

 2 unequal sets of pappus-paleas, tbose of the inner circle exceeding the 

 others. — Mountains of Alameda Co., south of Livermore, Jepson. May. 



* * Species more herbaceous, but all perennial. 

 ■1— Heads large, solitary or scattered. 



4. E. ^pecinsuin, Greene, Eryth. i. 149 (1893). SufFrutescent and 

 leafy at base, erect, parted into many long and nearly naked mono- 

 cephalous branches; these, and the lower face of the leaves, hoary with 

 some arachnoid or more dense and floccose tomentum: leaves glabrate 

 above, 2 — 3 in. long, lanceolate, acute, entire, or some with a few coarse 

 teeth or small lobes: peduncles a foot long: involucre short-campan- 

 ulate, of 12 — 15 distinct oblong-ovate acute bracts, their tips recurved: 

 rays 12—15, more than }^ in. long: achenes sharply angled, appressed- 

 pubescent; pappus of about 10 palese, alternately linear-oblong, and 

 narrower and much longer, all toothed at summit. — Foothills of the 

 Sierra from near Chico to Amador Co., Sonne, Hansen, Mrs. Austin. 



5. E. graiMlifloruiii. E. aenpitosurn, vav. grandijlorum. Gray. Much 

 stouter than the last, 2—3 ft. high, more densely woolly, the stout elon- 

 gated peduncles thickened under the very large heads: stem more leafy, 

 the lowest leaves spatulate-oblanceolate, dentate, the others with short 

 pinnate segments or coarse serratures: involucre about ^-^ iu. high, of 

 14^18 somewhat elliptic and overlapping bracts: rays as many, and 



