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obtusish tips: corolla with both tube and tips of the short erect 
segments long-villous. 
This species, so very marked in all its characters, especially 
in the peculiar hairiness of the corolla tube and segments, I 
know only as forming part of a collection made in Plumas 
County, California, as long ago as 1880, by Mrs. R. M. Austin, 
the only specimens known to me being in my own herbarium. 
‘CHRYSOTHAMNUS Macountt. Size of the last, rather more 
woody, the branches fewer and more rigid, more densely ob- 
scurely and viscidly white-tomentose, as also the indument of 
leaves, but these more sparse, more narrowly linear, recurved- 
spreading: cymes large and corymbose; bracts of involucre in 4 
series, all very acute and more or less white-villous, not cottony : 
corolla glabrous, its segments longer and more or less spreading. 
I have this only from near Lytton, British Columbia, where 
it was obtained by Mr. John Macoun, in August, 1887. It bears 
some likeness to O. Plattensis of the Colorado plains, but has 
characters enough of its own. 
CHRYSOTHAMNUS TORTUOSUS. Perhaps 2 feet high, the 
slender suberect and tortuous leafy and flowering branches a foot 
long or more, tomentulose and somewhat resiniferous, only 
sparsely leafy, the nearly filiform leaves 2 or 3 inches long, more 
or less spreading and tortuous, scarcely tomentulose but notably 
resinous-viscid at least when young: heads in a rather ample 
subcorymbose panicle; bracts of the rather narrow and elon- 
gated involucres in 4 series, all rather pungently acute, very viscid 
when young, also seemingly puberulent under the exudation, 
otherwise glabrous: corollas rather deeply cleft: achenes not 
seen. 
My specimens of this are immature, and have long been left 
in my herbarium unnamed. They are from northern California: 
one sheet from Plumas Co., by Mrs. Austin, 1880; the other 
from about 7000 feet on Mt. Shasta, by Mr. Jepson, 4 Aug., 1894. — 
The vegetative characters are so pronounced that I have no 
doubt about the validity of the species. 
