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Ldcs. — llescanso, K. Brandt gre ; Witch Creek, Ahlerxoii ; Coaluiilla Valley, Jf/).son 1479; 

 San Jacinto Valley, licinhanlt ; Elysian Park, Los Anfjeles, Brautiton 418; Biversiile, Wilder; 

 San Bernardino, Parish, Jepsoii .'3565 ; McKittrick, EclUr 7797 ; San Emigdio Caiion, Davy 

 1974; Alcalde, Brandegee ; Pacific Valley, Eastwood ; Kancho San Miguelito, Jolon, Jepson 

 1623; Atascadero, Brewer 894; Arroyo Grande, King; Bakersfield, Davy 1882; Greenhorn 

 Mts., Hall 4'- Baheocl- 50S1; N. Fork Kaweah, Jepson 564, 



Var, nudicaule Jepson n. comb. Herbage commonly greenish ; flowers white. 

 — Mountain skipes along the coast from Santa Barbara to Echo I\It. 



Kefs. — Choriz.\nthe .staticoides Benth. Trans. Linn. Soc. 17: 418 (1837), type from 

 California, Douglas. C. xcinti Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 12: 272 (1877), at least as to the type 

 spnis. from Fort Tejon, being the one first cited. Var. nudicaule Jepson. C. nudicaule 

 Nutt. Jour. Acad. Phila. ser. 2, 1: 166 (1847), type loc. Santa Barbara, Nuttall. C. wheeleri 

 Wats. 1. c, type loe. .Santa Barbara, Sotliroel-, which is clearly the equivalent of C. nudicatde 

 Nutt. 



9. C, valida AVats. Erect, 4 to 6 inches high, once or twice di- or tri-choto- 

 mously branclicd; leaves spatulate ; iuvolucral teeth or lobes not margined but 

 awnecl; awns mostly straight; inflorescence similar to the preceding; flowers 

 pedicellate, partly exserted: calyx-segments oblong, erose-denticulate, hirsute 

 along the back on the midveiu, vei-y unequal (the alternate only i/o as long), 



Sonoma; Petaluma ; Russian River. Rarely collected and litth' known. Per- 

 haps only a variety of V. pungeus. 



Kefs. — Chobizanthe valioa Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 12: 271 (1877), type speoiniens from 

 Sonoma Co.; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. ed. 2, 129 (1911). 



1(1. C. palmeri Wats. Stem erect, trichotomons, 5 to 12 inches high, the 

 cuds of the siniph.^ or dichotomous liranches l)earing head-like clusters of erect 

 compactl.v crowded involucres, the forks usually with solitary involucres; 

 herbage hairv pubescent; leaves in a basal tuft, oblong-spatulate, VU to l^i 

 inches long; bracts of the flower clusters setaceous; involucres cylindric or a 

 little contracted upward, li/o to 2 lines long, 6-ribbed, 6-tootlied, the larger 3 

 unequal, the smaller 3 nearly equal, all tipped with mostly straight spines; 

 flowers rose-color, exserted, very shortly pedicelled; cal.yx shortl.y cleft, the 

 outer lobes roundish, entire, the inner shorter, truncate or bifid, shortly 

 laciniate-fringed; stamens 9. 



Dry hills, Monterey and San Luis Obispo cos. 



Locs. — Jolon, jr. Brandeger; San Miguelito Rancho, Jepson; Nacimiento River, Davy; 

 San Simeon, K. Brandegec ; San Luis Obispo, K. Brandegee ; Creston, Barber; Santa Maria, 

 Blochman. 



Ref. — Chorizanthe p.\lmeri Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 12; 271 (1877), type loc. San Luis 

 Obispo, I'll I III I r 464. 



11. C. fimbriata Nutt. Stem erect or diff'use, trieliotonKnis at first node, 

 then dichotoniously branching, 4 to 1(1 (or 15) inches high, the involucres 

 solitary in the forks or clustered along the terminal branchlets; herbage red- 

 dish, lightly pubescent; leaves basal, spatulate or obovate, narrowed to a 

 petiole, 1 to 2 inches long; bracts subulate or acicular; involucres cylindrical, 

 2 to 3 lines long, 6-ribbed, ending in 6 spreading spine-tipped teeth, the 

 alternate teeth smaller; teeth uncinate (or straight); cal.vx white, exserted, 

 its lobes ovate-lanceolate, ecpial, irregularly fringed on each side, mostly below 

 the middle; stamens 6. 



San Diego Co, May-Jul.v. 



Locs. — San Diego, Brandegee, Chandler, Jepson 1591; Spring Vallev, Hall 3892; Pala, 

 Parish 4399. 



Var. laciniata Jepson n. comb. Habit, foliage, involucres and pubescence 

 that of the species; calyx rose-color, its lobes laciniate-fringed throughout. — 

 San Diego Co. 



Locs. — Witch Creek, Alderstm ; ('uyaniaoa, K. Brandegee; Descanso, K. Brandegec ; Palo- 

 mar, Jepson 1516. Also in Lower (,'al. 



Refs. — Chorizanthe fimbriata Nutt. in Jour. Acad. Phila. ser. 2, 1: 168 (1847), type loc. 

 San Diego, Niiffall; Torr. Pac. R. Rep. 5=: 364, t. 8 (1857). Var. laciniata Jepson. C. 

 laciniata Torr. Pac. R. Rep. 7": 19 (1856), type loc. San Felipe, Thos. Antisell. 



