1907] Hall. Compositae of Southern California. 185 



Channel Islands, ace. to Brandegee, 45 northward; near Santa 

 Maria, Miss Eastwood, no. 837. 



1 1 Lagasca 's original appears to have been a branch of the form 

 with uppermost leaves entire." Gray. This form has been re- 

 collected by Heller, no. 6704, along the beach at Pacific Grove, 

 Monterey Co., presumably the type locality. In Mr. Heller's 

 specimens the main branches are woody and leafless, the twigs 

 densely clothed with linear entire leaves. In the ordinary form 

 only the small bract-like leaves of the inflorescence are entire. 



8. E. Nevinii Gray, Syn. Fl. i. pt 2, 452 (1886). 

 Decidedly woody below, about 10 dm. high: leaves 15 cm. or 



more long, ovate in outline, once or twice pinnately parted into 

 numerous oblong obtuse lobes, equally white-tomentose on both 

 sides: tomentum of the stems deciduous: heads numerous, 

 crowded in naked-pedunculate broad flat-topped compound 

 cymes : involucre cylindrical, 6 to 7 mm. high ; bracts oblong, 

 obtuse, rather loose : rays 7 to 10, yellow, short : pappus of 4 to 6 

 erose paleae, often unequal, the longer ones lanceolate and acute. 

 San Clemente Island, on rocks overhanging the sea, Apr.. 

 1885, Nevin & Lyon, ace. to Gray, Aug., 1894, Brandegee; Santa 

 Catalina Island, on the sea-cliff, Jun., 1896, Mrs. Blanche Trask. 

 May, 1890, Brandegee. 



9. E. confertiflorum (DC.) Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xix. 25 

 (1883). Bahia confertiflora DC., Prodr. v. 657 (1836). 



Plant 2 to 6 dm. high : stem slightly woody at base, often un- 

 branched: herbage with a close dense (at length deciduous) to- 

 mentum : leaves of the flowering branches 3 cm. or less long, ter- 

 nately or pinnately parted into 3 to 7 narrowly linear divisions : 

 heads in compact terminal clusters: involucre obovoid-oblong, 4 

 mm. high : its bracts about 5, ovate : rays 4 or 5, yellow, about 4 

 mm. long: paleae 8 to 10, nearly equal, about one-half as long 

 as the achene. 



Abundant on dry hills from San Diego north throughout 

 western California. 



Var. trifidum (Nutt.) Gray, I.e. Bahia trifida Nutt., Trans. 

 Am. Philos. Soc. ser. 2, vii. 374 (1841). Leaves small, entire 



45Zoe i. 139 (1890). 



