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9. B. graveolens, var. glabrata, (Jray. Low grounds near the spa, 12 miles 

 poutli of 6anta Darbara, Mrs. Elwood Cooper. This species, where prevalent, is often 

 known as " Ifabbit liush." 



Piige 321. 20% TOWNSENDIA, Hook. 



Dwarf acaulescent or depressed-branching annuals or perennials, with linear or 



spatulate entire leaves, and largo heads of whitish or rose-colored flowers. Pappus 



a single series of unequal rigid scabrous bristles thickened or dilated toward the 



base. Akenes villous, strongly compressed, with somewhat tliickened margins. 



Otherwise nearly as Astei'. 



Seventeen species arc known, confined cliiefly to the Rocky Mountain region, only the follow- 

 ing apiiroacliing the borders of California. 



1. T. scapigera, Eaton. Biennial, finely hoary-pubescent : leaves radical, broadly 

 spatulate, obtuse or emarginate, an inch or two long ; stems several, simple, scape- 

 like, 2 to 4 inches high, 1 - 2-bracted : heads solitary, an inch broad or more, the 

 pinkish ray flowers twice longer than the herbaceous hairy oblong-lanceolate involu- 

 cral scales : j)appus of the ray slightly shorter than that of the disk. — Bot. King 

 Exp. 145, t. 17. 



Modoc County, Fort Bidwell {Mrs. Austin) ; hillsides, Northern Kevada, Watson, Wheeler, 

 Lemmon. Flowering in early spring. 



T. FLORiFKR, Gray, Ms. A similar species, with numerous stems from an annual root, often 

 branching, leafy, subdecumbent, 4 to 8 inches high, white vilious-pubescent : leaves narrowly 

 oblanceolate, acute, long-petiolate : involucre 4 or 5 lines long, tlie linear acuminate bracts nearly 

 e(iunl. — Eriijcron {\) florifer, Hook. Fi. 15or.-Am. ii. 20. Ajtlopnpptis flnrifrr, Hook. & Am. 

 ]5ot. neechey, S.'il. Slenotw florifrr, Torr. k Gray, Fl. ii. 238. T. .t/rignsn,'Gm\; Bot. Wilkes 

 E.xp. 344, not Nutt. Baker City, Oregon {Nrviusj ; Union County, Oregon (Cusick), and north- 

 ^^ard to the British boundary, Douglas, Wydh, Lyall, etc. 



Page 322. 21. ASTER. 



4. A. Shastensis, Gray. Siskiyou Mountains, E. L. Greene ; a rayless form. 



14. A. Andersonii, Gray. Foot of IMount Whitney {Rothrock) ; Mount Shasta, 

 Hooker tfc Gray. 



15. A. divaricatUS, Nutt. — A. tenue, Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad. vii. 114. 

 Apparently a form of tliis species with reduced heads. 



Page 328. 23. ERIGERON. 



7. E, Bloomeri, Gray. Near Yreka, E. L. Greene. 



8. E. ochroleucum, Nutt. The flowers arc reported as "golden yellow" 

 (Oregon, Neviiis) and " bright yellow " (Eraser River, Macoun). 



11*. Erigeron decumbens, Nutt. "Between E. coryiuhosvm and E. foUosum, 

 but with the involucre of the former : stems numerous from a slender rootstock, a 

 span or more high, spreading or ascending from the base, leafy, bearing few or some- 

 times solitary short-peduncled heads ; leaves all linear (lower 4 or 5 inclies long, 2 

 lines wide) : rays mostly fewer than in E. corymhosum and white or purple-tinged : 

 outer pappus obscure. — Proc. Am. Phil. Soc. 2. ser. vii. 309 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. 

 ii. 178." — Z^r, Gray. 



Plumas County, on Mount Dyer (Mrs. A\t.itin) ; Sierra County (Lrmmon) ; also in Oregon. 



13". E. miser, Gray. Very like E. snj-)ple.r, : stems bearing 1 to 5 smaller 

 corymbose heads : involucral scales narrowly subulate, unequal, puberulent, about 2 

 lines long : rays none : akenes hirsute, 2-nerved : outer pappus manifest, bristly. — 

 Proc. Amer. Acad. xiii. 372. 



Crevicesof rocks near Donner Lake (^7-cr?(('); on Mt. Stanford, Kcllogtj, Lemmon, Hooker k Gray. 



