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Mostly coastal from San Francisco south to northern Baja Cali- 

 fornia and the adjacent islands of Santa Rosa, Santa Cruz, and Santa 

 Catalina. It is tolerant of new immature soils and apparently has a 

 strong potential as a migrant in new areas of Mediterranean climate 

 type. 



Baccharis pilularis consanguinea (DC.) O. Kuntze, Rev. 

 Gen. PI. 1:319. 1891. 



Prisoners Harbor Canyon, Santa Cruz Island, September 14, Elmore 

 285, dry rocky hillside. 



Coastal from Oregon to southern California and the adjacent islands 

 of Santa Rosa, Santa Cruz, and Catalina. 



Baccharis Plummerae Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. Sci. 15:48. 1880. 



Prisoners Harbor Canyon, September 14, Elmore 287, dry rocky 

 hillside. 



Santa Cruz Island and the adjacent mainland. 



Baeria chrysostoma gracilis Hall, U. C. Publ. Bot. 3:170. 1907. 



Hill west of Prisoners Harbor, Santa Cruz Island, April 17, Ehnore 

 468. San Clemente Island, February 18, 19, Elmore 400. 



Common on Pacific slopes from Oregon south to northern Baja Cali- 

 fornia and listed (by Eastwood 1941 :75 under Baeria Palmeri Clemen- 

 tina) from San Nicolas, San Miguel, Santa Rosa, Santa Cruz, and San 

 Clemente Islands. A quick annual in a genus developmentally responsive 

 to the semi-arid climates of both maritime and continental types. 



Coreopsis gigantea (Kell.) Hall, U. C. Publ. Bot. 3:142. 1907. 



Santa Barbara Island, August 21, Elmore 297, dry canyon walls and 

 rocky hillside. Catalina Island, February 28, Elmore 436. 



Coastal bluffs from San Luis Obispo County south to the Santa 

 Monica Mountains and on all the Channel Islands. Apparently evolved 

 on Catalinia and recently migratory to the mainland. 



Corethrogyne filaginifolia robusta Greene, Pittonia 1 :89. 

 1887. 



Middle island of Anacapa group, August 1, Elmore 220, steep rocky 

 slope. 



The variety is endemic to the islands San Miguel, Santa Rosa, Santa 

 Cruz; not previously known from Anacapa. 



