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D. Mostly herbaceous; disk purple. 



E. Leaves tomentose or canescent with a rather soft pubescence ; 



South American 9. E. cauescens. 



E. Hispid-canescent; plant of the Galapagos Islands. 



10. E. hispida. 



E. Leaves greener, less pubescent; Mexican and Californian. 



F. Involucre densely tomentose, or scabrous-pubescent in a 



variety 8. E. caUfornica. 



F. Scales dorsally glandular, ciliate toward tip; leaves 



ovate, acute 7. E. halimifolia. 



F. Scales glandular-ciliate; leaves oval-oblong, obtuse. 



6. E. conspersa. 



Synopsis of Species. 



*Laciniatae. Suffrutescent, with laciniately lobed leaves; achene pap- 

 pusless; disk purple. 

 -1- Leaves linear; peduncles a centimeter long. 



1. E. VENTORUM Brandegee. Suffrutescent, much branched, 0.9- 

 1.2 m. high, stem 5-7.5 cm. thick; the young branchlets glandular; 

 leaves crowded toward tips of branches, fleshy, linear, with 1-5 linear 

 alternate lobes abo\'e the middle, 3-6.5 cm. long, 1-2 mm. wide; 

 heads "fragrant," glutinous, nodding on short peduncles, solitary at 

 tips of branches, hemispheric, 10-12 mm. high; scales about 3-seriate, 

 somewhat unequal, rather loose, lanceolate to lance-ovate, ciliate and 

 glandular-dotted, becoming reflexed and somewhat woody in age; 

 rays about 10, small, 8 mm. long, truncate, with rather long hairy 

 tube; disk-flowers about 50, the corolla 5 mm. long, with short tube 

 and cylindric-funnelform throat; pales greenish and glandular- 

 puberulent on the keel, about 3-nerved on the sides, 7-11 mm. long; 

 achenes 5.5-8 mm. long, ol)long, truncate, narrowly margined, with 

 villous margin and apex, glabrous on the sides. 



Encelia ventorum Brandeg. Proc. Calif. Acad. ser. 2. ii. 175 (1889). 



Specimens examined: Lower California: Lagoon Head, 6-15 

 Mar. 1889, Palmer 828 (GX); Playa Maria, July-Oct. 1896, Anihony 

 118 (FGN). Originally collected by Brandegee "on the narrow strip 

 of sand between the lagoons and the ocean near the Boca de Las Ani- 

 mas." 



-t— -^ Leaves broader; peduncles 2.5-6.5 cm. long. 



2. E. laciniata Vasey & Rose. Suffrutescent, 0.6-0.9 m. high, much 

 branched, more or less glandular-pubescent, anfl usually hispid with 

 ascending hairs on the younger parts; leaves ovate or obovate in 

 outline, acute or obtuse, unequally and laciniately lobed with the lobes 

 sometimes toothed, narrowed to a margined petiole, 3-5.5 cm. long, 

 1-2.5 cm. wide, lamina 2.5-6 mm. broad between the lobes; heads 



