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The frequently elongated and coarsely toothed leaves on 
certain specimens give to this variety a very different aspect 
than is presented by typical specimens of S. Fendleri; but the 
variety appears to pass imperceptibly into the species through 
several of the specimens above cited, particularly Baker, 
Earle and Tracy’s No. 208, and Wooton’s collections from 
the White Mountains and the Sacramento Mountains. A 
striking characteristic of the species, as well as the variety, 
is shown on many of the carefully collected specimens, namely, 
the presence of short offshoots or more frequently elongated 
slender stolons which bear leaves from entire to sinuately 
lobed or even subbipinnate. This character is well shown by 
Fendler’s No. 478 in the Royal Herbarium at Berlin and by 
Patterson’s No. 79 in several American herbaria. The foliage 
of the species is extremely variable, but the characters of the 
inflorescence and heads are relatively constant. The two 
specimens, namely, Fendler’s No. 478 and 480, on which Dr. 
Gray based the species, present a rather different appear- 
ance in leaf character, particularly the extent to which the 
leaves are divided; nevertheless, in the light of a large suite 
of specimens there can be no doubt but that Dr. Gray was 
perfectly right in regarding the two Fendler plants as con- 
specific; and furthermore the species seems to be even more 
inclusive than originally defined. 
106. S. Muirii Greenm.! 
S. aureus var. borealis Gray, Bot. Calif. 1: 412. 1876; Syn. 
Fl. N. Am. 1?: 391. 1884, and ed. 2, 1886, in part, not Torr. & 
Gray. 
S. werneriaefolius Coville, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 4: 140. 
1893, not Gray. 
tomentulosus ais minusve. g abratus; caulibus solitariis vel pluribus a caudice 
es 5-10 em. sy foliis АШ Рыскен subeoriaceis elliptico-ovatis vel 
tulato- linearibus 1,5-5 em. longis 1.5-10 mm. latis obtusis vel submucronato- 
acu uda integris vel ad apicem paulo dentatis; foliis superioribus multo reductis 
bracteiformibus; capitulis solitariis vel in cor oso-cym — m - 
positis 6-10 mm. altis radiatis; involucro campanulato par alyeulato t 
tuloso vel MERO: [perge ucri squamis circiter 21 lineari- “Tanceolati is 6-8 n mm. 
longis et basi petioli marginati saepe ооа eulis liguliferis 
8-12, ligulis flavis; 222 disci 35-60; achaeniis glabris эбим ted on Mount 
Dana, California, alt. 3050-3655 m Geol. Surv. Calif., 28 and 29 June, 1863, 
Brewer 1734, 1750 ur Herb. and U. S. Nat, Herb.), TYPE. 
