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several-headed corymbose cyme; heads 10 to 12 mm. high, ra- 
diate; involucre campanulate, sparingly calyculate, tomentu- 
lose; bracts of the involucre 13 to 21, linear-lanceolate, 6 to 
9 mm. long; ray-flowers 8 to 10, rays yellow; disk-flowers nu- 
merous; achenes glabrous. 
Distribution: mountains of southern California. 
Specimens examined: 
California: Bear Valley, San Bernardino Mountains, alt. 
1980 m., Aug., 1882, S. B. £ W. F. Parish 1450 (Greene Herb., 
Univ. of Notre Dame, Gray Herb., and U. S. Nat. Herb.), 
TYPE; Bear Valley, alt. 1980 m., 23 June, 1894, S. B. Parish 
3345 (Greene Herb., Univ. of Notre Dame, U. S. Nat. Herb., 
and Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb.) ; Bear Valley, 16-20 June, 1895, 9. 
B. Parish 3718 (Greene Herb., Univ. of Notre Dame, and Gray 
Herb.); Bear Valley, 5 Aug., 1902, Abrams 2891 (U. S. Nat. 
Herb., Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci. Herb., and Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb.) ; 
San Bernardino Mountains, Aug.-Sept., 1907, Mrs. C. M. Wil- 
der (Dudley Herb., Stanford Univ. No. 82450) ; Bear Valley, 
alt. 1825 m., July, 1909, Davidson 2159 (U. S. Nat. Herb.); 
Holeomb Valley, San Bernardino Mountains, alt. 2130 m., 16 
June, 1916, S. B. Parish 10878 (Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb.). 
Var. sparsilobatus (Parish) Greenm. comb. nov.! 
S. sparsilobatus Parish, Bot. Gaz. 38 : 462. 1904. 
White floccose-tomentose throughout, slightly glabrate; 
stems 1.5 to 2 dm. high, erect; stem-leaves, except the upper- 
most, petiolate, 1 to 6 em. long, 1 to 1.5 em. broad, pinnately 
lobed with remote entire or dentate lobes; heads 10 to 19 mm. 
high; involucral bracts about 13; achenes glabrous. 
Specimens examined: 
California: trail from Barton Flats to South Fork of Santa 
Ana River, alt. 2130 m., June, 1904, Mrs. H. E. Wilder (Dudley 
* An examination of the type specimen of Senecio oper eee Parish, which 
has been loaned to me from the Dudley Herbarium, through the courtesy of Pro- 
fessor Leroy Abrams, shows this plant to be more der allied to S. bernardinus 
Greene than to S. ionophyllus Greene; it accordingly has been so treated above. 
paper, indicated below, represent a marked variation from the type of this spe- 
cies and for these may be substituted the name Senecio ionophyllus Greene var. 
Linien Greenm. nom. nov. (8. ionophyllus nS Mec sii Hall, Univ. 
Calif. Pub. Bot. 3 : 232. 1907; Greenm. Ann. Mo. . Gard, 4: 34. 1917, not 
S. sparsilobatus Parish). 
