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5. S. eurycephalus T. & G., in Gray, PL Fendl. 109 (1849). 

 8. Breweri Davy, Eryth. iii. 116 (1895). 



Rather stout, erect, 1 to 7 dm. high, from a perennial root: 

 herbage nearly glabrous or (in northern forms) tomentose, com- 

 monly a slight woolliness at least in the axils of basal leaves: 

 lower leaves 1 to 3 dm. long including the long petiole, irregular- 

 ly pinnately parted or divided, the divisions diminishing in size 

 from the broad rounded terminal lobe to the minute and narrow 

 lower ones; middle cauline leaves narrower and with narrower 

 acute divisions, these commonly lanceolate to cuneate and vari- 

 ously lobed or incised : heads 3 to 30, in a loose terminal cyme ; 

 bracts of the inflorescence linear-lanceolate or subulate, small : in- 

 volucre 8 to 11 mm. high; bracts 10 to 20, linear-oblong, acute, 

 scarious-margined, the outer calyculate ones few and very short : 

 rays 7 to 12, oblong, 8 to 16 mm. long. 



Upper Sonoran Zone, commonly on moist grassy slopes : Tejon 

 Pass, Los Angeles Co., 1280 m. alt., Parish, no. 1893, and Hall, no. 

 6262 ; Fort Tejon, Kern Co., Hall, no. 6273 ; Tehachapi Pass, Kern 

 Co., May, 1889, Brandegee (herbage scurfy), and Jul., 1895. 

 Davidson (glabrous) ; Blue Mt., Kern Co., Hall & Babcock, no. 

 5000; Paso Robles, San Luis Obispo Co., Apr. 23, 1899, Barber; 

 thence north through the Coast Ranges to northern and north- 

 eastern California. 



With the exception of Mr. Brandegee 's collection, all of the 

 specimens cited are glabrous save in the leaf-axils, and these 

 often also glabrous. In northern California, at least the leaves 

 are commonly white-tomentose even at time of flowering, but 

 some from even so far north as Modoc Co. (Goose Lake Valley. 

 Mrs. Austin) are quite smooth and green. It will probably be 

 found that woolly plants come only from arid places, the most 

 woolly ones at hand being from very dry soil in the Sacramento 

 Valley. 



6. S. Douglasii DC., Prodr. vi. 429 (1837). 8. Blochmanae 

 Greene, Eryth. i. 7 (1893). 



Stems branching from the suffrutescent base and forming a 

 bushy plant usually 1 to 1.5 m. high, leafy up to the inflorescence : 

 herbage at first whitish-tomentose, later more or less glabrate : 



