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leaves ovate-cordate, with crisped mar- 

 gins and both surfaces tomentose or the 

 upper glabrate: peduncle stout, erect, a 

 foot high, bearing at summit a compact 

 cymose cluster of many-flowered umbtls- 

 perianth glabrous, rose-red, campanu- 

 late: filaments villous at base. Island c f 

 San Miguel, where it is abundant on low 

 sandstone cliffs near the sea: but first 

 ^ound in a similar locality at the extreme 

 west end of Santa Cruz. A most beauti- 

 ful species." — Ge pittonia 1:39. 

 ERIOGONUM GRANDE Greene. 



' Basal shrubby and lealy part a foot 

 or two high with many branches; pedun- 

 cles 3-5°, thick and fisulous below, slen- 

 der and loosely cymose-dichotomous 

 above: leaves ovate-oblong, obtuse, cor- 

 date at base, the margins crisped, 2-3^ 

 long, on petioles of equal length, lower 

 surface densely white-tonmentose, upper 

 glabrate: involucres terminal only: peri- 

 anth glabrous, white, segments equal, 

 obtuse, rotate-spreading in flower: fila- 

 ments villous at base. Interior of Santa 

 Cruz Is., very common ;***"-Ge pit 1:38. 

 ERIOGONUM APICULATUM S. Watson. 

 ERIOGONUAl ANGULOSUM Benth. 

 ERIOGONUM LATIFOLIUM Smith. 

 ERIOGONUM VIRGATUM Bth. 

 ERIOGONUM DELICATULUM S. Wat. 

 ERIOGONUM MOLBSTUM S. Watson. 

 ERIOGONUM INSIGNE S. Watson. 

 ERIOGONUM ARBORESCENS Greene. 

 ERIOGONUM BAILEYI S. Watson. 

 ERIOGONUM BRACHYPODUM T. & G. 

 ERIOGONUM CINEREUM Benth. 

 SRIOGONUM CRENULATUM Parry. 

 ERIOGONUM DESBRTICOLA S. Wats. 

 "Apparently an annual of the B. Pusil- 

 lum group (base and foliage unknown) 

 tall, several times dichptomously 

 branched, white-tomentose, becoming 

 mostly glabrous and yellowish green; 

 bracts all small and deltoid; involucres 

 Shortly pedicellate or subsessile toward 

 the end of the branches, erect or spread- 

 ing, turbinate-campannlate, 1" long: 

 perianth villous, the elliptical segments y. 

 with greenish or reddish midveins, 1-1 V2 

 long ' In the southwestern part of 

 the Colorado desert, San Diego Co., Cali- 

 fornia- C. R. Orcutt, November, 1890 (n. 

 .-189) "_s. Watson, Proc. Am. Acad, 

 xxvi. 125-6 (July 31, 1891). 

 ERIOGONUM BLONGATUM Benth. 

 ERIOGONUM FASCICULATUM Benth. 

 ERIOGONUM FOLIOSUM S. Watson. 

 "Of the E. vimineum group: annual, 



branching from the base, flocoose-tomen- 

 tose, the branches sparse and spreading: 

 leaves ovate, cordate or cuneate at base, 

 obtuse or acute, undulate, tomentose be- 

 neath, 3-9" long besides the petiole. 

 radical, and in the axils of the subulate 

 brncts: involucres broadly turbinate, cleft 

 nearly to the middle, green, 1" long: ?,. 

 y^" long, the segments white or pink- 

 ish with a green midvein." — S. Watson. 

 Proc. Am. Acad., xx. 371-2 (Feb. 21, 1885). 

 Cantillas. Lower California (Palmer, 1875; 

 Orcutt. 1882). 



ERIOGONUM GIGANTEUM S. Watson. 

 ERIOGONUM GRACILE Benth. 

 ERIOGONUM INFLATUM Torr. 



ERIOGONUM MINUTIFLORUM Wats. 

 "Of the E. Pusillum group; very slen- 

 der, 6' high or less, diffusely branch- 

 ing, glabrous, excepting the small ovate 

 rosulate leaves which are densely white- 

 tomentose on both sides, becoming less 

 tomentose above; bracts minute; pedun- 

 cles filiform, divericately spreading: 3-8" 

 long; irivolucres very small (1-3" long), 

 broadly turbinate-campanulate, pur^ 

 plish; perianth y., minutely puberulent, 

 very small."— S. Watson, Proc. Am. Acad., 

 xxvl., 125 (July 31, 18 1). Colorado desert. 

 San Diego Co., California (Orcutt, April. 

 1890). 

 ERIOGONUM NUDUM Dougl. 



p:rtogonum orcuttianum s. wats. 



"Of the E. Heermanni group: the very 

 short herbaceous leaf stems from a woody 

 base, and the rigid divaricate branches 

 flnelv subtomentose-pufce^cent: leaves 

 scattered, thick, nearly glabrous, broadly 

 ovate or obovate, obtuse, shortly petiol- 

 ate %" long: bracts ternate, deltoid- 

 subulate, small, subherbaceous: involu- 

 cres solitary, tubinate-campanulate, sub- 

 tomentose, " nearly 1" long: fl. tom- 

 entose,, greenish white, 2-3 long, 

 the oblong-obovate lobes of the periauLi; 

 nearly equal."— S. Watson. Proc. Am. 

 Acad., XX. 371 (Feb. 21, 18S5). Shrub, 2' 

 high: Cantillas Canyon, Lower California 

 (H C and C. R. Orcutt. August, 1883). 

 ERIOGONUM PALMERI S. Watson. 

 ERIOGONUM PARTSHII S. Watson. 

 ERIOGONUM PARRYI A. Gray. 

 ERIOGONUM PARVIFOLTUM Smith 

 ERIOGONUM PLUMATBLLA D. & H. 

 ERIOGONUM PONDII Greene. 

 ERIOGONUM PUSILLUM T. & G. 

 ERIOGONUM RENTFORME Torr. 

 ERIOGONUM SAXATILE S. Watson. 

 ERIOGONUM STELLATUM Benth. 

 ERIOGONUM THOMASII Torr. 

 ERIOGONUM THURBERI Torr. 



"Sandy ravines, San Pasqual, Calif., 

 My, Thurber. * ' Wallace. Leaves in a 

 subradical cluster, about Yz' long undu- 

 late-rugose, pnbe.scent above, wh'te to- 

 mentose underneath. Stem a scape 

 about a span high, trichotomously sub- 

 divided below the middle, with ovate a- 

 cute ternate bracts at the forks. Pedi- 

 cels \' long. Involucre less than a line 



