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high; bracts obtuse, the tips greenish, the narrow white margins 

 shortly ciliate: rays several, short: achenes silky-pubescent. 



Very common in the foothills and on the plains west of the 

 mountains extending south into Lower California and east to the 

 Colorado Kiver. 



4. E. pinifolia (Gray) Hall, comb. nov. Haplopappus pinifol- 

 ius Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 636 (1873). Chrysoma pinifolia 

 Greene, Eryth. iii. 12 (1895). 



Stout spreading shrub 6 to 16 dm. high: herbage nearly 

 glabrous, resinous but not noticeably punctate: leaves narrowly 

 linear to filiform, mucronate, 1 cm. or more long, the fascicled 

 ones shorter as also are the numerous crowded ones of the branch- 

 lets: vernal heads solitary, hemispheric, about 12 mm. broad, 

 surrounded by long slender acuminate leaves simulating an outer 

 involucre : autumnal heads paniculate or racemose, often con- 

 gested, less leafy-bracted, turbinate, about 6 mm. broad : in- 

 volucre of the autumnal heads about 7 mm. high; bracts acumi- 

 nate or the inner only acute, greenish-tipped, with membranous 

 woolly-ciliolate margins; the outermost passing into small leaves 

 of the flowering branchlets: rays of the vernal heads 20 to 30, 

 of the autumnal heads 6 to 10, short: pappus sordid: achenes 

 lightly pubescent, glabrate. 



Along the foothills from Western Los Angeles Co. (Newhall) 

 to the Cuyamaca and Laguna Mts. of San Diego Co. A common 

 element of the chaparral belt. Solitary heads Apr.-Jun. : panic- 

 ulate heads Aug.-Nov. 



5. E. ericoides (Less.) Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Calif. 559 (1901). 

 Diplopappus ericoides Less., Linnaea, vi. 117 (1831). Haplo- 

 pappus ericoides H. & A., Bot. Beech. 146 (1833). Ericameria 

 microphylla Nutt, Trans. Am. Philos. Soc. ser. 2, vii. 319 (1841). 

 Chrysoma ericoides Greene, Eryth. iii. 11 (1895). 



Heather-like shrub, 3 to 8 dm. high, decidedly shrubby at 

 base, with decumbent or ascending main stems and numerous 

 erect branchlets: herbage resinous, inconspicuously punctate, 

 the growing parts puberulent but green : leaves filiform, .5 to 1. 

 cm. long, in numerous close fascicles, or the lower ones longer 

 and not fascicled : heads cymose-paniculate ; involucre 5 or 6 mm. 



