NEW OR NOTEWORTHY SPECIES. 167 
MADIA pENsIFOLIA. Annual,3 to 5 feet high, the stem 
almost naked above and corymbose-panicled, very densely 
leafy at and near the base, the leaves all narrowly linear 
and entire, with strong midvein and no lateral nerves, 4 to 8 
inches long, densely short-hirsute, not at all glandular; the 
reduced and scattered rameal leaves sparsely bristly-ciliate, 
the hairs longer than the width of the leaf, all the upper 
‘branches and foliage abundantly glandular: rays ample, 
often red at base: achenes compressed-trigonous. 
Species common in western California, and long mistaken 
by authors for M. elegans, which is a plant of. very different 
aspect, its stem loosely clothed with broadly lanceolate 3- 
nerved leaves, etc. 
MADIA TENELLA. Annual, erect, very slender, 8 to 12 
inches high; sparsely short-pubescent, the peduncles and 
involucres glandular: lowest leaves opposite, upper alter- 
nate, all narrowly linear, entire, obtuse, bristly-ciliate below 
the middle: heads few, small, solitary or subracemose : 
bracts of the involucre 5 to 7, with short and broad tips; 
rays as many, } inch long, golden-yellow, their achenes little 
compressed and trigonous, not enclosed, but only the dorsal 
portion embraced, by the involucral bracts; chaff of recep- 
tacle distinct, in one series between disk and ray ; the recep- 
tacle convex and somewhat hirsute. 
Collected at Bear Valley, San Bernardino Co., California, 
June, 1894, by Mr. Parish, and distributed as M. elegans ; 
but a distinct and very peculiar species in the character of | 
its involucre and achenes. 
Mapta porycarpHa. Annual, slender, 2 feet high, very 
leafy below, more naked above and corymbosely panicled : 
herbage appressed-strigulose, minutely glandular, and with 
some setose-hispid hairs: lowest leaves in pairs, oblanceolate, 
_ obtuse, entire, hispid-ciliate below the middle, the reduced 
ones of the branches linear, hispid-ciliate throughout: bracts 
Prrroxia, Vol. III. Pages 167-174. Issued 19 May, 1897. 
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