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NEW CALIFORNIAN PLANTS. 
By F. T. Brovertt. 
Scorzonella maxima. Stout, 2 to 4 feet high, leafy- 
stemmed, glabrous: lower leaves about a foot long and 2 
inches broad, entire, or with a few small and scattered teeth: 
heads very broad, about 400-flowered: bracts of involucre 
about 40, the outer long-acuminate from a broadly ovate 
base, the others successively narrower at base, the innermost 
linear-lanceolate: achenes about 3 lines long; lanceolate 
pale 14 lines, the whole pappus 5 or 6 lines long. 
Collected at the end of summer, 1892, in Los Guilucos 
Valley, Sonoma County. The species resembles S. arguta, 
Drew, which is smaller, has finer flowers, as well as different 
involucral bracts, and a pappus of different proportions. 
BLEPHARIPAPPUS HIERACIOIDES (H. & A.), Greene, forma 
anomala. Ray-achenes not enfolded by the involucral 
bracts, these only concave, not falling away with the achenes, 
but becoming deflexed and somewhat persistent after dis- 
charging them. 
This, a robust form or variety of a common species, grows 
plentifully on a certain elevated plateau among the hills 
behind Berkeley. The semipersistent involucral bracts be- 
come as much deflexed as in Senecio vulgaris or other of the 
more common composites; a thing otherwise unknown in the 
Madioid tribe. But no other characters are detected; so 
that it can hardly be deemed a species distinct from B. 
hieracioides. 
