1907 J Hall. Compositae of Southern California. 131 



3. H. tephrodes Gray, Bot. Mex. Bound. 90 (1859) and Syn. 

 Fl. i. pt. 2, 450 (1886) (where complete synonymy). 



Slender, erect, the commonly simple stem 3 to 6 dm. high: 

 herbage whitened with a dense hispidulous or strigose pubes- 

 cence: blade of the main cauline leaves ovate-lanceolate, entire, 

 2.5 to 4 cm. long, tapering to the petiole; uppermost leaves ob- 

 long to linear : heads short-peduncled in terminal clusters and 

 solitary in axils of upper leaves : involucral bracts oblong-lanceo- 

 late, acute : rays large for the size of the head (2 or 3 cm. long) : 

 disk-achenes silky-pubescent (at least above), the long hairs 

 nearly equalling the slender caducous paleae of the pappus. 



Lower Sonoran Zone of the Colorado Desert, south into So- 

 nora ; rare : ' ' Mirasol de Monte, in the Calif ornian desert of the 

 Colorado, in sandy places by the road-side; October, 1855, 

 Schott," ace. to Gray; in sand at Palm Springs, Colorado Desert, 

 1882, Parish, no. 1212 (duplicate type of Gymnolomia encelioides 

 Gray) ; Colorado Desert, 1889, Wright, no. 1750. 



4. H. Parishii Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xix. 7 (1883) ^David- 

 son, Bull. So. Calif. Acad. ii. 30 (1903). H. Oliveri Gray, Proc. 

 Am. Acad. xx.. 299 (1885). 



Tall and stout, 2.5 to 5 in. high, with thick tuber-like roots: 

 pubescence extremely variable ; the stems glabrous to short-hispid, 

 sometimes tomentose near the heads; the leaves strigose or sca- 

 brous on the upper surface, strigose to densely white-tomentose 

 beneath ; the involucre more or less canescent : leaves lanceolate, 

 acuminate, tapering to a short petiole, entire or nearly so, the 

 margins inclined to be revolute, 10 to 25 cm. (or more?) long, 1 

 to 2 or 3 cm. wide : heads short-peduncled, the peduncles com- 

 monly exceeded by the upper leaf-like bracts : involucre 10 to 18 

 rum. high, its bracts linear-subulate : chaff of the receptacle with 

 abrupt densely ciliate tips : rays 2 to 3.5 cm : long : disk-corollas 

 with a villous ring above the short proper tube, or this wanting 

 in flowers from the same head : achenes glabrous : pappus-paleae 

 linear-subulate, 4 mm. or less long. 



In wet places: near San Bernardino; low ground near Los 

 Angeles ; Cienaga, near Santa Monica ; probably also along 

 Spring Brook, near Riverside. The excellent specimens recently 



