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specimens barely in flower at that date; only a few heads 
exhibiting well formed though immature achenes. The 
species is allied to C. oblongifolius and linifolius, but differs 
from both in its greener and less viscidulous foliage, and 
especially by its underground growth, most of the stems 
appearing to rise singly from the horizontal and mostly 
subterranean woody part. Nor are the leaves at all feather- 
veined as in its near relatives. 
C. ABBREVIATUS. Brickellia oblongifolia, var. abbreviata, 
Gray, Bot. King Exp. 137. This is an alpine undershrub, 
extremely different from C. oblongifolius in habit, the tufted 
stems being very slender and depressed, even almost pros- 
trate; the leaves are much thinner, broader, and commonly 
saliently toothed ; also the outer bracts of the involucre ex- 
hibit broad green herbaceous tips, such as are not found at 
all in others of this group. These points of difference, along 
with the peculiarity of the achenes mentioned by Gray, 
seem to constitute every warrant for placing this in the 
rank of a species. It was seen and collected at the original 
station near the summits of the West Humboldt Mountains, 
by myself, in the summer of 1894. 
C. veRBENAcEUs. Shrubby, the flowering branches 2 feet 
long: leaves coriaceous, 2 inches long, oblong-cuneiform, en- 
tire below the middle, with a few pairs of coarse serratures 
toward the acute apex, dark-green and shining above, though 
with some scattered pubescence, the lower face 3-nerved and 
reticulate as well as hoary with a loose subtomentose hairi- 
ness: heads one in each axil of the uppermost leaves, $ inch 
bigh, on pedicels of their own length, involucre narrowly 
turbinate, its bracts very evenly imbricated, elliptic-lanceo- 
late, with acuminate and very sharply pointed apex, all 
about 5-nerved: achenes villous. : 
I have this plant, and have seen it in other herbaria, 
under the name of “ Brickellia oliganthes,” from which it 
