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Brickellia californica (Torr. & Gray) A. Gray, Pl. Fendl. 64. 1849. 
Type locality: “California.” First collected by Douglas. 
Distribution: Mendocino County and the foothills of the Sierra 
Nevada, southward to northern Lower California. In southern 
California this species is common on the coastal slope, growing 
in washes and on dry ridges in the chaparral. Upper Sonoran. 
Specimens examined: Santa Barbara, Elmer 4189; Arroyo Seco, 
near Pasadena, Grinnell, Nov. 14, 1903; Elysian Park, Los An- 
geles, Abrams 4173; San Antonio Canyon, San Gabriel Mountains, 
Baker 36096; foothills of the San Bernardino Mountains, S. B. 
FW. F. Parish 566; San Diego, Cleveland, 1874; Santiago Canyon, 
Santa Ana Mountains, Helen D. Gets 523; Campo, Palmer 171. 
7. COLEOSANTHUS DESETORUM Coville, Cont. Nat. Herb. 4: 119. 
1893. 
Brickellia desetorum Coville, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 7: 68. 1892. 
Brickellia californica desetorum (Coville) Hall, Univ. Calif. Pub. 
Botss: 33, 1907. 
Type locality: “Between Banning and Seven Palms, on the 
Southern Pacific Railroad, California.” 
Distribution: Growing in canyons on the desert slopes along 
the Colorado and Mohave deserts. Lower Sonoran. 
Specimens examined: Dos Cabesas, Orcutt, Nov. 1, 1890. 
8. CoLEosantHus Kwappianus (Drew) Greene, Erythea 1: 54. 
1893. 
Brickelia Knappiana Drew, Pittonia 1: 260. 1888. 
Type locality: “In the neighborhood of the Mohave River.’’ 
Distribution: In the more eastern and northern part of the 
Mohave Desert, perhaps not within our range. Lower Sonoran. 
Specimens examined: Pleasant Canyon, Panamint Mountains, 
Hall &3 Chandler 6910. 
3. GUTIERREZIA. 
Flowers of ray and disk 1-2 each. 1. G. lucida. 
Flowers of ray and disk several each. 
Ultimate branchlets ascending, destitute of bract-like leaves. 
2. G. divergens. 
Ultimate branchlets strictly divaricate, clothed with very short bract-like 
leaves. 3. G. bracteata. 
