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of the California Academy of Sciences, where they have since 

 been destroyed by fire, but there is a duplicate of Kellogg 's type 

 and a sheet of Brandegee 's material from the type locality pre- 

 served in the Brandegee Herbarium at the University of Cali- 

 fornia. 



2. G. cuneifolia Nutt., Trans. Am. Philos. Soc. ser. 2, vii. 315 

 (1841) ; Perredes, Wellcome Research Lab. Bull. 65, t. i, f. 6 

 (1907). 



Plant 6 to 12 dm. high, commonly with several dm. woody at 

 base, ending in a cymose panicle of several heads or the simple 

 sterile shoots densely leafy at summit : leaves thick, spatulate to 

 narrowly oblong, usually obtuse but the upper sometimes broadest 

 at base and acute (especially the much reduced ones of the flower- 

 ing branches), entire or serrulate: involucre 12 to 18 mm. broad; 

 bracts with tips erect to recurved : rays golden-yellow : mature 

 achenes mostly with a 1 or 2-dentate border at summit : pappus- 

 awns 5 to 8. 



Salt-marshes from Los Angeles Co. (ace. to Abrams) and 

 Santa Barbara (ace. to Gray) northward. I have seen no speci- 

 mens from Southern California. Autumn. 



3. G. robusta Nutt., Trans. Am. Philos. Soc., ser. 2, vii. 314 

 (1841) ; Perredes, 1. c. f. 1. GUM PLANT. 



Stems mostly erect, 3 to 6 dm. high : leaves usually oblong to 

 ovate or lanceolate and acute, in a few cases wider above and 

 obtuse, sharply serrate or denticulate or the uppermost entire; 

 the middle cauline 3 to 5 cm. long, 1 to 3 cm. wide : heads few, in 

 a terminal cyme, sessile and leafy-bracted, or pedunculate and 

 the bracts less obvious: involucre 20 to 25 mm. broad; bracts with 

 attenuate squarrose or recurved tips : mature achenes mostly with 

 a 1 or 2-dentate, often oblique border at summit: pappus-awns 

 2 to 8. 



Along the seaboard from Los Angeles to San Francisco, not 

 plentiful; first collected by Nuttall at San Pedro; Summerdale, 

 Santa Barbara Co., Hall, no. 3175 ; Suey River, near the northern 

 boundary of Santa Barbara Co., May 9, 1896, Miss Eastwood. 

 Summer. 



