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588 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 



Lower California: Cedros Island, April, 1897, Brandegee 

 (Gray Herb, and U. S. Nat. Herb.) ; San Quentin Bay, Palmer 

 606 (Kew Herb.). 



6. S. californicus DC. Prodr. 6 : 426. 1837 ; Torr. & Gray, 

 Fl. N. Am. 2 : 437. 1843 ; Gray, Bot. Calif. 1 : 410. 1876, Syn. Fl. 

 N. Am. 1- : 393. 1884, and ed. 2, 454. 1886; Greene, Fl. Fran- 

 ciscana, 465. 1897 ; Greenm. Monogr. Senecio, I. Teil, 23. 1901 

 and in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 32 : 19. 1902 ; Abrams, Fl. Los 

 Angeles and vicinity 439. 1904. 



8. californicus var. laxior DC. Prodr. 6 : 426. 1837; Torr. & 

 Gray, Fl. N. Am. 2 : 437. 1843. 



8. coronopus Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 7 : 413. 1841 ; Torr. 

 & Gray, Fl. N. Am. 2 : 437. 1843. 



An herbaceous glabrous annual; stem erect simple or 

 branched, 1 to 5 dm. high; leaves oblong-spatulate to lanceo- 

 late, entire to subpinnatifid, 2.5 to 7 cm. long, .2 to 2 cm. 

 broad, often reddish; the lower leaves often narrowed to a 

 subpetiolate base, the upper sessile and auriculate-clasping at 

 the base; heads radiate, few to several in a loose cyme; 

 bracts of the involucre about 21, often brownish or black- 

 tipped, much exceeded by the yellow conspicuous rays; 

 achenes canescent-pubescent. 



Distribution: central California, vicinity of Monterey, 

 south to northern Mexico. 



Specimens examined: 



California: sand hills, back of Seaside, Monterey Co., 3 

 April, 1903, Heller 6509 (Gray Herb., Field Mus. Herb., and 

 Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb.) ; Gigling Station, east of Del Monte, in 

 sand, 11 May, 1903, Heller 6710 (Gray Herb., Field Mus. 

 Herb., and Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb.) ; Bardins, Monterey Co., 

 April, 1903, Elmer 4893 (U. S. Nat. Herb, and Mo. Bot. Gard. 

 Herb.) ; Del Monte, April, 1902, Elmer 3576 (Mo. Bot. Gard. 

 Herb.); Arroja Grande, San Luis Obispo Co., 21 Feb., 1886, 

 Summers (Gray Herb.) ; Cuyama, near the boundary between 

 Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo Counties, 6 May, 1896, 

 Eastwood (Gray Herb.) ; hillsides, Los Angeles Co., 19 

 March, 1888, Hasse (U. S. Nat. Herb.); Los Angeles, May, 



