216 Eastwood: New species of western plants 



terminating in I 



h 



1,5 cm, high, about 20-flowered, the i— 2 rays entire or deeply 

 toothed ; involucral scales in several series, the outer successively 



r 



shorter, spreading and somewhat recurved ; outermost 2-3 mm. 

 long, green tinged with brown, glandular ; inner linear, acute, 8 



mm, long, brownish-green, glandular, membranously margined, 

 apex erosely ciliate ; disk-flowers tubular, gradually enlarging, the 

 lower part glandular, upper part glabrous, striate, teeth 5, triangu- 

 lar with thickened margins and tips conniving around the slender 

 hairy exserted style-branches: stamens included: akenes 5 mm. 

 long, densely clothed with silky-white, loose, upwardly-appressed 

 hairs ; pappus subrufous, abundant, i cm. long, minutely barbellate.- 



Montei 



K. Abbott, August 25 

 Merriam on Carmel B< 

 any of the genus. E; 



same year by Dr. C. Hart 

 The heads are larger than 

 resembles Chrysoma pijiU 



folia (Gray) Greene, but the corollas are shaped differently, C. 



pinifolia having the teeth recurved-spreading and with almost 

 glabrous akenes. Dr. Merriam reports it as extremely abundant, 

 growing amid ' such shrubs as Eriogonnm fascictilatiini^ Ltipimts 

 Chaudssonis , and others found in similar situations. 





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^ Raillardella scabrida sp. nov. 



Stems several from a thick, woody root, about 2 dm, high, 

 leafy, scabrous with bristly pubescence, the upper part beset with 

 black, stipitate glands : leaves alternate, linear, obtuse, sessile, 10- 

 15 mm. long, 1-4 mm. wide, the lower ones cinereous from the 

 white bristles thickly clothing the scabrous surface, uppermost 

 dark from the blackish glands : heads solitary or more often 2 or 

 3 terminating the stems, the middle peduncle almost naked, the 

 lateral with few bracts near the base, both rough with the dark 

 glands, about 6 cm. long : heads eradiate, 15 mm. long ; involu- 

 cral scales linear-lanceolate, acute, scabrous and glandular, densely 

 white-ciliate along the upper half, 8 mm. long, 1.5-2 mm. wide, 

 reflexed-spreading to the very base, in fruit becoming convex on 

 the outer side ; outer flowers fertile, inner mostly sterile ; corolla 

 yellow, tubular, 6 mm. long, less than i mm. in diameter, uniform, 

 the teeth with thickened margins : anthers surpassing the corolla : 

 styles with long, slender exserted bristly tips : pappus-bristles 

 plumose, the shaft of the feather flat, as long as the corolla-tube ; 

 akenes black, densely clothed with white, closely appressed hairs, 

 broadening towards the top, keeled on one side, flattened and 



