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Bear Valley, Parish; Fish Creek, Grinnell; San Antonio Mt., 

 Mrs. Wilder, nos. 257, 592 ; Mill Creek Falls, Parish, no. 2515 ; 

 Swartout Canon, San Antonio Mts., 1900 m. alt., Hall, no. 1508 ; 

 Wilsons Peak, San Gabriel Mts., McClatchie, Grant, no. 164; 

 Mt. Gleason, San Gabriel Mts., 2000 m. alt., Barber, no. 269; 

 Pah Ute Peak, Southern Sierra Nevada Mts., 1500 to 2100 m. alt., 

 Purpus; Mt. Pinos, Ventura Co., Hall, nos. 6321, 6646, 6671; 

 Frazier Mt., ace. to Coville. Mr. Parish informs me that the 

 type material certainly came from Little Bear Valley, although 

 probably labeled ' * Bear Valley. ' ' He did not submit any speci- 

 mens from Bear Valley to either Dr. Gray or to Professor Greene 

 until after the publication of the species. 



8. C. Parishii Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xx. 299 (1885). 



Low bush-like plants often several dm. in diameter; the base 

 perennial and suffrutescent ; the annual branches numerous, erect, 

 2 to 5 dm. high, leafy only below, merely bracteate above, where 

 they either branch and bear 2 or 3 long-pedunculate heads or are 

 simple and monocephalous : herbage very white with close wool, 

 glabrate only above: leaves 2 to 5 cm. long (including the broad 

 petiole of half this length) ; the blade oblong in outline, pinnately 

 parted into obtuse linear lobes about 5 mm. long, these rarely 

 toothed: involucre 12 to 15 mm. high; its very unequal bracts 

 loose, linear, obtuse : pappus-paleae 9 to 15, linear, nearly as long 

 as the corolla. 



Western borders of the Colorado Desert, south to Lower Cali- 

 fornia ; ascending the mountains to 2100 m. alt. but only where 

 the conditions are influenced by hot and dry ascending air- 

 currents from the desert: Aguanga, San Diego Co., Parish, no. 

 1396 (duplicate type) ; Coyote Caiion, Santa Rosa Mt., 1500 m. 

 alt., Hall, nos. 1178, 1901, 2128 ; Tahquitz Peak, San Jacinto Mt. ; 

 Hall, no. 2326 ; Cuyamaca Peak, Brandegee. 



That this species cannot be separated from C. suffrutescens. 

 with which it was first confused, by the number of pappus-paleae. 

 is shown from the fact that in our southern species this number 

 varies from 9 to 15, while in C. suffrutescens it is 9 or 10. More- 

 over, the paleae of C. Parishii are often toothed or even cleft one- 

 half or two-thirds of the way down and this splitting is undoubt- 



