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ward the coast in middle and northern California. G. bicolor 

 has often been mistaken for this species in Southern California. 



5. G. ramosissimum Nutt., PL Gamb. 172 (1848). PINK 

 EVERLASTING. 



Slender, 5 to 15 dm. high : stems usually several from the 

 biennial root, terminating in a much branched oblong panicle 

 which is often 3 dm. or more long: herbage glandular and very 

 sweet-scented, soon becoming green through the shedding of the 

 light tomentum, only the stem remaining more or less arachnoid : 

 leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, seldom more than 5 or 6 mm. 

 broad, obviously decurrent : involucre narrowly ovate or turbi- 

 nate, 4 to 6 mm. high, reddish or pinkish, rarely white. 



Wooded slopes from the south base of the San Antonio Mts. 

 (Leslie Canon, Chandler) and Los Angeles (Griffith Park, Braun- 

 ton, no. 643, etc.) to the Sacramento. Not common in Southern 

 California. 



6. G. microcephalum Nutt., Trans. Am. Philos. Soc. ser. 2, 

 vii. 404 (1841). SMALL-HEADED EVERLASTING. 



Three to 6 or 9 dm. high: stems commonly several from the 

 herbaceous perennial base, branching above into an elongated or 

 sometimes broad loose panicle, which is usually less than 3 dm. 

 (mostly 1 or 2 dm.) long: herbage clothed with a bright-white 

 persistent woolly tomentum : leaves linear, or narrowly oblong, or 

 spatulate, the larger ones 4 to 6 cm. long and 3 to 12 mm. broad, 

 mostly short-decurrent : heads small, disposed in rather small 

 glomerules or clusters at the ends of the branches of the panicle : 

 involucre narrow, 5 or 6 mm. high; bracts ovate or oblong and 

 obtuse at apex, or the very innermost linear, bright white. 



Lower California (San Vicente, Orcutt, no. 1239) to Shasta 

 (Grant, no. 5075) and, ace, to Gray, to Oregon both along the 

 coast (including Santa Rosa Island, etc.) and in the mountains to 

 at least 1800 m. alt. (Strawberry Valley, Bear Valley, etc.). The 

 type specimens, which came from San Diego, are described by 

 Nuttall as having heads conglomerate in a short spike about 5 cm. 

 long and white-silvery acute bracts. 



7. G. Chilense Spreng., Syst. iii. 480 (1826). G. Sprengelii 

 H. & A., Bot. Beech. 150 (1833). COTTON-BATTING PLANT. 



