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On the Mohave Desert at the base of Fremonts Peak, San 

 Bernardino Co., Hall & Chandler, nos. 6868, 6869 ; Mohave Sta- 

 tion, Kern Co., Pringle (in a dwarf form) ; between Manzana and 

 Cuyama, in southeastern San Luis Obispo Co., Miss Eastwood; 

 north to middle California. 



4. C. maritima (Nutt.) Hook, f., Bot. Mag. t. 6241 (1876). 

 Tuckermannia maritima Nutt., Trans. Am. Philos. Soc. ser. 2, 

 vii. 363 (1841). Leptosyne maritima Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 

 358 (1868). 



Stems fleshy-herbaceous, spreading, much branched, the plant 

 3 to 8 dm. high : leaves two or three times pinnately divided into 

 linear lobes ; these .5 to 1 cm. long in the upper leaves, often 3 cm. 

 in the lower: heads large (disk 2.5 or 3 cm. broad), on naked 

 peduncles 1.5 dm. or more long : outer involucre of ovate or 

 oblong herbaceous bracts ; inner involucre of longer oblong bracts 

 which approach the rays in texture and color : rays 16 to 20, 

 about 3 cm. long : ring of disk-corollas beardless : achenes oblong 

 with thin narrow wings, glabrous : pappus commonly none, rarely 

 1 or 2 short awns. 



Coast of San Eiego Co. and northern Lower California, and 

 on the adjacent islands. Cultivated for its handsome foliage and 

 showy flowers. 



,5. C. gigantea (Kell.) Hall, comb. nov. Leptosyne gigantea 

 Kell., Proc. Calif. Acad. iv. 198 (1873). 



Robust fleshy-woody trunks erect, 3 to 12 or even 20 dm. high 

 and often 1 dm. or more thick: primary branches distant, hori- 

 zontal or ascending, leafy only towards the ends: leaf -divisions 

 filiform, from very short to 5 cm. or more long, varying between 

 these extremes from year to year on individual plants: heads 

 medium-sized (disk about 2 cm. broad) on cymosely clustered 

 peduncles 1.5 dm. or less long: outer involucre of oblong or lan- 

 ceolate bracts; inner bracts longer, oblong, yellowish, the mid- 

 nerve prominent toward the base : rays 10 to 16, 2.5 to 3 cm. long : 

 ring of disk-corollas beardless: achenes narrowly oblong, mar- 

 gined, glabrous : pappus none. 



Near the coast from Los Angeles Co. to San Luis Obispo Co. 

 (probably further north) and on the adjacent islands. I have 



