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STUDIES IN THE COMPOSITE. 2S9 



Madrid garden before one Californian plant had been grown 

 in Europe, uiiless this was such. It is true Hsenke and also 

 Nee were at Monterey in 1791 ; but the publication of plants 

 from seeds collected by them does not appear to have begun 

 until long after 1793 ; and I can find no evidence that any- 

 thing of Californian botany w^as knoAvn in Spain at that date, 

 though with Mexican and South American vegetation they 

 were beginning to be well acquainted. 



No Californian GrindeUa has the obovate cuspidate sub- 

 decurreut foliage, or the short rays, or the numerous and 

 barbellate slender pappus-bristles attributed to G. glutinosa. 

 It should not, therefore, have been admitted into the descrip- 

 tive botany of North America; and the well known Californian 

 seaboard forms that have been thought to represent it here, 

 seem to be mere varieties of two other species: 



G. ROBUSTA, var. PLATYPiiYLLA. Stems stout, ascending or 

 erect, 6 to IS inches long, leafy, corymbose at summit ; leaves 

 mostly broadly spatulate, obtuse, rather closely serrate, sessile 

 by a broad auriculate-clasping base: heads very glutinous 

 when young, the thinnish foliage not so: pappus bristles 

 mostly 2 or 3 only, very stout, compressed, recurved, glabrous. 



Common at Monterey, on bleak exposures near the sea. 

 Good flowering specimens have been collected this year by 

 Mr. Howe. 



G. EUBRiCAULis, var. iMARiTiMA. Stouter than the type, 

 depressed and more branching, the stems 8 to 16 inches long, 

 often glabrous, seldom with a little of the pubescence of the 

 type: leaves more numerous, of firmer texture and much 

 broader, usually oblong or oblanceolate, coarsely serrate, 

 sessile by a clasping base: pappus-bristles 2 to 5, stout, com- 

 pressed, barbellate- scabrous on the margins. 



Abundant on steep declivities almost overhanging the sea 

 at Point Lobos, San Francisco, flowering late in summer 

 (the type in spring or early summer); connected with true 

 O. ruhrtcaulis,^ of districts more or less remote from the sea, 



* This name auteJates G. hirsulula, Hook. & Arn., for the same species. 



