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VERBESINA ENCELIOIDES B-H. 



Ann: sts densely puberulent, much 

 branched or rarely simple, 3-6 dm hi; 

 Ivs deltoid-ovate or deltoid-lanceolate, 

 5-10 cm long, coarsely dentate, g and 

 minutely pubescent above, pale and 

 densely canescent beneath, all alt or 

 the lowest opposite, narrowed at the 

 base to a margined petiole, these often 

 with dilated appendages at the base, 

 hds several or many, 2.5-5 cm broad; 

 racts lanceolate, canescent; rays 

 golden-y. 3-toothed; ak of the 

 disk-tis obovate, winged; pappus of 2 

 subulate awn.s, those of the rays 

 rugose, thickened, often wingless. 



Abr.-ims. Fl LA 416. 



Parish Zoe 1:59. 



Davidson, Erythea 1:60. LA Co. 

 COLEOSAXTHtS CALJFORXICUS Kun 

 ;bby at base, '6-9 dm hi, panicu- 

 lately branched; herbage somewhat 

 glandular-puberulent; Ivs alt, ovate, 

 somewhat triangular or slightly cor- 

 date, obtus- , irregularly crenate- 

 toothed, 3-ribbed from the base, veiny, 

 roughish 2-3 cm long, short-petioled; 

 -picate or racemose along leafy 

 branches, about 1 cm hi, 10-15-fld; in- 

 volucral bracts with thinnish, mostly 

 obtu.se straight tips. Mendocino Co to 

 Baja! 



Abrams, Fl L A 391. 



Brickellia Californica A. Gray. 



Hall U 125. 



COLEOS AXTHIS DESERTORUM 

 Coville. 



"Shrubby, about 1 m hi; branches 

 minutely w-tomentose, becoming gla- 

 brous in the 2d or 3d year, but still 

 with a w epidermis, afterward gray; 

 It, minutely einereous-tomentose; 

 petioles 2-5 mm long; blades deltoid 

 ovate, truncate at the base, crenate- 

 le, commonly 3-8 mm long, on 

 vigorous shoots reaching 16 mm in 

 length: hds in glomerules of 2-4 fls, on 

 short leafy branches from a main axis, 

 or in the 2d Or 3d year the branches 

 elongated and divaricate and bearing 

 a single terminal glounerule; inv 7-8 

 mm hi. about 10-12-fld; bracts 3- 

 nerve 1, with trai-os of minute tomen- 

 tum. 1 mm or less wide, bluntly acute, 

 the outermost oblong-lanceolate, all 

 widely recurved after the maturing of 

 the ak 2 mm long sparingly short- 

 hispid; pappus scabrous." Coville 

 Wash biol soc pr 7:68 (1S9:>). 

 . Brickellia desertorum Coville. 



ilk-. CNH 4:119. Mohave desert. 



locality: "between Banning -and 

 Seven Palms," Riverside Co. Cal. 



Type in U S No Hb (Or, 7 N 1889). 

 'CUPRESSUS GUADALUPENSIS S. Wat. 



The blue cypress is a handsome, slen- 

 der tree, 40 to possibly 60 feet high, 

 with beautiful exfoliating reddish bark 

 and glaucous foliage, first discovered 

 on Guadalupe island, and later found 

 in rocky canyons near Ensenada, on 

 the mainland. It proves not rare in 

 some of the canyons near the interna- 



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tional boundary, and Perish records it 

 in "ravines near the Old Mission, San 

 Diego, not abundant" (Zoe., 4:352). Its 

 graceful habit and compact growth 

 makes it one of the most ornamental 

 species in the genus. 

 PINUS COULTERI Don. 



The big cone pine is a tree 1-2% feet 

 in diameter and 50 or more feet high, 

 occurring above 5,000 feet usually, 

 from Mount Diablo to the Catalina 

 mountain and on the mountains north- 

 east of Ensenada in "Lower California. 

 The cones are long, oval pointed, 10-14 

 inches long and 4 or 5 inches in diame- 

 ter, yellowish brown, persistent for 

 many years on the tree, the scales with 

 a very stout, long incurved point (some- 

 times 2 inches long.) 

 PIXUS LAMBERTIANA Lam. 



The sugar pine attains at times a 

 height of 300 feet and a diameter of 8 

 to 20 feet, with light brown smoothish 

 bark, splitting in small sections. The 

 bright brown cylindrical cones are 1 

 to iy 2 feet long, 3-4 inches wide, on pe- 

 duncles 3 inches in length, containing 

 smooth, black seeds Vz inch long. "The 

 exundation from the partially burned 

 tree loses its resinous qualities and ac- 

 quires a sweetness similar to that of 

 sugar or manna, for which it is some- 

 times used, whence the name of sugar 

 pine." (Watson, Botany of California, 

 2:123). The sugar which I have col- 

 lected from trees in the Cuyamaca 

 mountains was very sweet, fine grained 

 and white as snow. 

 PIXUS MURICATA Don. 



A small pine, growing near San Isi- 

 dro, in Lower California, not known 

 from San Diego county, is found, only 

 near the coast, as far north as Mendo- 

 cino where it grows 50 to 80 or 120 feet 

 high. At San Isidro trees only 3 feet 

 high were perfecting cones, which are 

 said to persist over 30 years on the tree 

 The leaves are in pairs. The cones are 

 sessile, ovate, about 3 inches long, with 

 stout prickles on the outside. The 

 cones occurring in whoils around the 

 stem, and remaining closed for many 

 years, are one of the curiosities of Cal- 

 ifornia botany. 

 PINUS JEFFREYI Murr. 



The Jeffrey or black pine is a tree 75 

 feet high, trunk 3 feet in diameter, usu- 

 ally found in the mountain valleys near 

 small streams, extending into Lower 



