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broad, the bead with expanded rays 2 in. wide: achenes as in the last. — 

 Plains and low hills, along the western base of the Sierra, bordering the 

 lower Sacramento and San Joaquin. April — June. 



6. E. obovatum, Greene, Eryth. iii. 123 (1895). Stems several, 

 decumbent, about a foot high, rather equably leafy, but ending in 

 a short naked monocephalous peduncle; herbage densely white-tomen- 

 tose: leaves all entire, broadly obovate to obovate-spatulate, 1 — 2 in. 

 long, only the lowest opposite : involucres broadly campanulate or 

 nearly hemispherical ; bracts 10 — 12, oblong-lanceolate ; rays light- 

 yellow: tube of disk-corollas hispidulous: achenes glabrous; pappus 

 conspicuous, of about 8 — 10 very unequal palefe, some very short and 

 obscure, others long, all lacerate-toothed. — From Kern Co. southward, at 

 middle elevations of the mountains. 



7. E. croceuin, Greene, 1. c. 124. Slendei-, the several decumbent 

 stems 8 to 18 inches high: foliage silky-lanate beneath, glabrate above: 

 leaves of narrowly cuneate-obovate outline, of thin texture and coarsely 

 toothed or lobed above the middle: monocephalous peduncles several, 

 terminating the branches: heads hemispherical: bracts of involucre 

 thinnish, 10 or 12; saflFron-colored showy rays about as many: corolla- 

 tube short, densely hispid: achenes sharply 4-angled, the angles toward 

 the base white-callous: pappus of the ray none, of the disk of 4 very 

 short and blunt incurved callous points rather than palese. — Amador and 

 Calaveras County hills, Hansen, Blasdale. 



8. E. integrifoliiim. Tnchophylhun iidegiifoliiim. Hook. Fl. i. 316 

 (1833); T. mullifloriim, Nutt. Journ. Philad. Acad. vii. 35 (1834). Dwarf 

 and matted, the short depressed very leafy branches only a few inches 

 long, the monocephalous naked and scape-like peduncles 3—6 in. high: 

 leaves from narrowly spatulate or oblanceolate and entire to more 

 dilated and 3-lobed at apex, the whole plant fioccosely hoary: campan- 

 ulate involucre of about 6 or 8 oblong-lanceolate carinate-nerved bracts: 

 rays as many, yellow: achenes rather slender, glabrous or with some 

 short bristly hairs about the summit: pappus of rather many narrow 

 erect palese, these mostly lacerate, some of them aristate-pointed. — 

 Summit of the Sierra, and down the eastern slope, thence far northeast- 

 ward. July, Aug. 



9. E. Iniiatiim, Forbes, Hort. Woburn. 183 (1838); Pursh, Fl. ii. 560 

 (1814), under Actinella; Nutt. Gen. ii. 168 (1818), under Trichophyllnm; 

 Spreng. Syst. iii. 574 (1826), under Helenium; DO. Prodr. v. 657 (1836), 

 under Bahia. Somewhat caespitose, but the erect branches 8 18 in. 

 high, and clothed with many pairs of opposite or alternate pinnatifid 



