'OSTRminio^s to westerx bot 



teeps Tt next to Psathyrotes. Then in 1897 I got the plant in the 

 Death Vdlley fegfon and after strenuous trying to get ft identified at 

 Hansard without results. I nanied it Invonia dvsodioides, A few vears 

 later xhst most acute botanist Mrs. Brandegee called my attention to its 

 similanty to Peucephyllum Schottii. We then compared it and found 

 it the same thing. I seem to have been the first person who ever studieii 

 it in the field and published the results,whichcleared up its relationship, 

 To me the plant belonged nearest to Dysodia, but has the general habil 

 of an Aplopappus, which after the fashion of Lepidospartum which to 

 me 13 a go(xl Tetradymia but with the habit of a Bigelovia. These an- 

 omalies in habit and structure weaken the already too badlj strained 

 classification of genera on physiological characters. There may be nc 

 better one in sight Just now, but there should be one somewhere, 



Veiic^aiia carp sioides Gray. The involucre h distinctly Coreop»i(i. 

 There I an outer series of green bracts at the base of the head, and 

 immedrately above it a .^-ries of rather hyaline bracts in one whorl form- 

 ing a Mnd of cup in which the flowers lie. The corolla tube is densely 

 hair}' with flattened and about six-celled white hairs spreading irregular- 

 ly, and appearing as if glandular at tip. At the ver}^ ba.^e of the tub<! 

 there fs a ring of similar hairs closely reflcxed as if a kind of pappos 

 (>ut not la.-ger tban the other hairs. The akencs are about 10-ann:]ed, 



en 





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of wlu-s. These notes are taken fresh from material gathered by m 

 on San'a Cmz islands, March, 1929. 



This plant is not well characterized by Gray either in the BotanA' of 

 California Vol. I p. 372, or in the Synoptical Flora Vol 1 pt. 2 p. 317. 

 In addition some errors occur in the characters given. The genera 



siuijle or 



of the leaves is soft and thin though the plants are a yard 1 

 the stems very leafy. Plants nearly smooth throughout and ercc 



ing above. The peduncles terminal and the flowers therefore ..... 



c)-moie, and yellow even to the disk flowers and inclined to be overtopped 

 by the leaves. The under side of the leaves has scattered over the sur- 

 face^ and on the ribs rudimentary hairs which Gray ' erroneously call.i 

 'resmous atoms." He also calls the pubescence on the base of corolli 

 tube glandular-bearded." which it is not. The leaves are alternate. 



.-lender-petioled, ovate-acuminate, soft, almost smooth, palmately veined, 



, . , , -- . , conspicuously rai.sed below. Heads ^ inch 



high, about 2 inches wide, on a peduncle about 3 inches loner, which 

 temunates in one to few lanceolate bracts close to the heads, which pasc 

 on the angles of the head?, into 1-3 broadly lanceolate spreading, and 

 twisted or variously distorted and eared and acute bracts H inch long, 

 which are green and erect. Then next the flowers is a single series of 

 close-pressed, erect,cordate-ovate and rounded bracts about 1 cm. long bv 

 U cm. wide, which are conspicuously eared below, smooth, green but 

 tending to become hyaline above. The heads are truncate below and 

 sharply angled at the insertion of the outer bract.s and 1 cm. wide. The 



