8 PITTONIA. 
Alameda Co.,3 May, 1895, has pales more villous, and also 
villous outer achenes. 
M. BREVISETA. Small and slender, the foliage in reduced 
plants lance-linear and merely toothed, in other pinnatifid; 
scapes few, 3 to 6 inches high; involucres somewhat turbinate, 
achenes short and columnar, less than 2 lines long, the outer 
densely villous, the others dark chestnut-brown, their ribs rather 
coarsely and very roughly serrulate ; palex of the pappus ovate- 
oblong, longer than the achene, distinctly cymbiform, dull-white, 
scaberulous, tapering to « very short barbellulate awn. > 
Collected by myself at San Diego, California, April, 1885, and 
made a part of my M. Parishii, Bull. Calif. Acad., ii, 46; but 
the type of that species has very different achenes and an almost 
black pappus. By the form of its involucre no less than by its 
very short pappus-awn does this species ally itself with M. pla- 
tycarpha notwithstanding its narrow and elongated palea. 
M. ALic1#. Scapes many, stoutish, decumbent, 4 to 10 inches 
high, the loosely pinnatifid leaves half as long ; involucres 
round-ovoid ; achenes short-columnar, 23 lines long, the very 
villous outer ones and some next them more less curved, the 
glabrous ones all of a light ash-gray hue, their obtuse ribs very 
slenderly and delicately spinulos-serrulate: pales of the pappus 
round-obovate, very obtuse, barely a line long, villous without 
and dull smoky-brown; awn slender, scarcely barbellulate, 1% 
lines long. : 
Santa Lucia Mountains, Monterey Co., California, May, 1897, 
Miss Alice Eastwood. Another ally of M. platycarpha. 
M. PROXIMA. Near the last but much taller, the scapes few 
erect from the base and slender:  inyolucres subcylindric: 
achenes nearly 3 lines long, slender-fusiform, all straight, the 
glabrous ones of a light chestnut-brown, with acute ribs that are 
scabrous-serrulate; round-oboyate pappus-palez villous asin the 
last, the awn more barbellulate. 
This also is known only from Miss Eastwood’s specimens 
obtained at Warthau, Fresno Co., Calif., 11 May, 1893. I could 
