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NEW SPECIES OF ERIOGONUM. 67 
NEw SPECIES OF ERIOGONUM. 
E. RECLINATUM. Near Æ. umbellatum but notably bushy- 
_ shrubby, the repeatedly forked woody stems often a foot high, 
Obviously reclining, usually forming a broad dense tuft; the 
very numerous slender sterile branchlets tomentulose, ending 
in tufts of upright (not spreading and rosulate) elliptic-lanceo- 
late and rather slenderly petiolate leaves an inch long, these 
canescently tomentose on both faces before maturity, afterwards 
glabrate above, not so beneath: peduncles slender and weak, 
seldom quite upright, villous-tomentulose, or sparsely villous, 
or nearly glabrous, the simple umbel with commonly 2 or 3 rays 
only, sometimes with 4 or 5: perianth greenish yellow, the sti- 
pitiform base sometimes as long as the segments, sometimes much 
shorter. 
This forms the bulk of what passes for F. umbellatum in the 
Californian Sierra and adjacent Nevada, and by its vegetative 
— alone must be held a good geographical subspecies at 
east. 
E. AZALEASTRUM. Akin to Æ. umbellatum, but strongly suf- 
frutescent, the trichotomous woody stems a half-foot high or 
more, the red bark smooth on the younger branches, somewhat 
Striate-fissured on the older, the ultimate branchlets sparingly 
somewhat arachnoid-tomentose, each ending in a somewhat rosu- 
late tuft of small subcoriaceous leaves, these glabrous to the 
unaided eye, ovate-elliptical, tapering abruptly to a very short 
petiole, the whole leaf less than an inch long, the margins of 
the younger showing, under a lens, some flocculent or arachnoid 
tomentum (but this deciduous), the short petioles pilose-ciliate : 
stoutish and wholly glabrous scapes rigidly erect, 6 or 8 inches 
high: simple umbel of about 6 rays subtended by a whorl of de- 
flexed bracts as long as the proper leaves but narrower and of 
oblong outline: perianths yellow, changing to crimson in age 
