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aiid a rather slender pediceled involucre in the forks, divisions suc- 

 cessively shorter till the ultimate ones are 2-10 lines long, and 

 bearing 1-3 nearly sessile involucres, which are 11/2-2 lines long, 

 campanulate, scariously toothed and smooth, flowers white and 

 red, barely i line long, with oblong sepals : stems many ; inflores- 

 ence in a widely spreading and rounded corymb. This siinulates 

 E. nudum in its more slender forms, and the stems are reducetl 

 to compact crowns. Grows on clay banks in Sevier Valley, Utah, 

 near Joseph City, also found at Marysvale, Utah, No. 5.i<S8\' Jones, 

 June 13, 1894. In the Lower Tempcratf life zone. 



E. nummulare. 



Leaves orbicular, not revolute ; blade about 6 lines long, on a 



slender petiole half as long, alternate on the short stems for an 

 inch or two which are produced into stout peduncles 1-3 inches 

 long which then branch into wide panicles with racemose ends and 

 usually have a leaf at the lowest fork; stout involucral peduncles 

 2'2) lines long, not conspicuously angled, short-toothed, green : 

 flowers reddish-brown with white tips, many ; outer sepals broad- 

 ly- oblong, about ^A line long, united about one-third the way up: 

 whole plants densely white-woolly, flowers sparsely so. Dutch Mt., 

 Western I'tah. growing in sand in the Lower Temperate life zone. 



E. Eastwoodae E. ramosissimum Eastwood Proc. Cal. Acad. 2 6 

 322. not E. tenellum, var. ramosissimum Torr. 

 Stems shrubby, intricately and diffusely branched, several 

 from a woody root, about 1^ feet high, leaves linear-lanceolate. 

 10-14 lines long. 2-21^ lines wide, woolly on both sides, but less 

 densely so above, margin slightly revohite and undulate, petioles 

 short arid. about i line long ; inflorescence widely spreading and di- 

 vided racemosely with loi^g and flowerless internodes 3-4 incTies 

 long, upper branches of inflorescence cymosely panicled ;involucres 

 T line long, few, like those of E. brevicaule and contracted at 

 mouth, the lower only peduncled. the rest sessile ; flowers 3-5, con- 

 tracted and tips of sepals orbicular, rose-colored and with crimped 



