98 PITTONIA. 
rieher deeper red than in the other species, the pubescence 
very characteristic. 
5. Z.cana. Like the preceding in size, but more branching, 
the branches although rigid strongly recurved, covered with 
fascicled leaves: leaves narrowly linear-lanceolate, entire, 
whitened on both sides by a very minute, appressed tomen- 
tum, without other pubescence: flowers slender; petals 
scarcely exceeding the segments and not a third as long as the 
tube of the dull red calyx: capsules glabrous, on very slen- 
der pedicels 3—5 lines long. 
Santa Cruz Island, with the preceding but more abundant ; 
very beautiful on account of its pale, seemingly glaucous, but 
really white-tomentulose foliage crowded on the gracefully 
recurved branches; the flowers smaller and duller in color 
than in any other Zauschneria. These two very distinct 
species border together many miles of dry stream banks, and 
do not run together. I saw, however, two or three plants 
which were manifestly of hybrid derivation. 
A New GENUS OF ASTEROID COMPOSITJE. 
HAZARDIA. 
Involuere oblong-oval, its many bracts closely imbricated, 
of firm texture, with no spreading tips. Heads 20—40-flower- 
ed; ray-flowers 5—8, neutral, very short, ligulate or irregu- 
larly and somewhat palmately 5-toothed or -lobed, pale yel- 
low, changing to dark brownish purple: disk-flowers perfect, 
narrowly tubular, 5-toothed, yellow changing to brownish. 
Appendages of style short-lanceolate, pubescent. Akenes 
linear-oblong, compressed, few-nerved, pubescent.  Pappus 
of numerous, unequal, rigid, brownish, capillary bristles; 
those of the abortive ray-akenes little reduced. Stout, tomen- 
tose, deciduous shrubs of the islands off the coast of Califor- 
nia: heads white-tomentose, numerous, in large cymose 
