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Nevada: Moapa, Lincoln Co., alt. 518 m., 12 May 1906, Kennedy 

 1112 (N); Arizona: 1869, Pa/w tT part (N). 



45. E. frutescens Gray var. actoni (Elmer) Blake, n. comb. 

 Leaves OAate, cuneate or truncate at base, very rarely toothed, 

 whitened with a rather soft fine pubescence; pubescence of stem. and 

 peduncles also softer than in the t3'pical form; involucral scales 

 mostly ovate-acuminate; rays apparently always present; otherwise 

 as in the typical form. 



Encelia actoni Elmer, Bot. Gaz. xxxix. 47 (1905). 



E. frutescens f. actoni Hall, 1. c. (1907). 



Specimens examined: Nevada: Esmeralda Co., 31 May 1886, 

 Shocldey 416 (G); Candelaria, alt. 1677 m., June 1887, Shockley 540 

 (G); without locality, 1872, Lt. Wheeler {N); alt. 1050 m., Beattie, 

 Nye Co., 5 June 1912, Heller 10422 (N); California: Pleasant 

 Caiion, Panamint Mts., alt. 1677 m., 6 May 1897, Jones (N); near 

 Independence, 29 May 1906, alt. 1160 m.. Hall & Chandler 7217 (G); 

 hillsides, Argus Mts., alt. 1220-1525 m., 1897, Purpus 5383 (GN); 

 Tehachapi foothills, Kern Co., 30 May 1905, F. Grinnell (N); east 

 slope of Walker Pass, Kern Co., alt. 1300 m., 21 June 1891, Coville & 

 Funston 1020 (N); Rock Creek, desert slopes of San Gabriel Mts., 

 alt. 1158 m., July 1908, Abrams & McGregor 548 (N); Liebre Mts., 

 June 1908, Abrams & McGregor 402 (GN); Acton, June 1902, Elmer 

 3724 (N, type number of E. actoni^'^); Mohave Desert, June 1887, 

 S. B. Parish (F); near Hesperia, Mohave Desert, 30 May 1901, S. B. 

 Parish 4873 (N); S.m Francisquito Creek, 27 May 1905, F. Grinnell 

 (N); San Francisquito Canon, 26 May 1905 (N); Victor, alt. 792 m., 



17 May 1903, Jones (N); San Jacinto, June 1901, Hall 2007 (N); San 

 Felipe Canon, 22 June 1888, Orcutt 1483 (N); San Jacinto, 14 Aug. 

 1907, V. Bailey (N); San Felipe, June 1852, Thurber 634 (G); San 

 Isabel, June 1852, Thurber 634 (G); near San Felipe, 10 Oct. 1858, 

 Suiton Hayes 443 (N); dry rocky hills, Jacumba, 31 May 1903, 

 Abrams 3667 (GN); Smith's Mt.,' San Diego Co., 1880, Vasey 285 

 (FN); Arizona: Colorado River, Schott (G)^^ "Jesup Rapids," 



18 Feb. 1858, Ives Expedition, in part (N). 



5. E. albescens Gray. Frutescent (?); branches striate, whit- 

 ened with a roughish appressed pubescence, terminating in naked 



3 7 Described by Elmer as having the ray-flowers styliferous, but I do not 

 find them so. 



38 Originally taken by Gray (Bot. Mex. Bound. 88) to be E. conspersa Benth. 

 and afterwards considered (Proc. Am. Acad. viii. G56) a small variety of E. 

 californica, but best placed here. 



