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or dentate towards the apex; peduncles 1-5 cm. long; involucre 6-7 mm. high and fully as 

 broad, fioccose; bracts 8, usually distinct to near the base; ray-flowers 6-8; ligules bright- 

 yellow, 5-7 mm. long, 2-3 mm. wide; disk-corollas 2.5-3 mm. long; tube glandular-hispid, 

 shorter than the funnelform, glabrous or puberulent throat; style-tip conic; anther-appendages 

 lance-triangular; achenes 2.5 mm. long, 4-angled, nearly prismatic, hirsute; squamellae 8, 

 minute, lanceolate, 0.2 mm. long or less, sometimes wanting; receptacle short-conic, often 

 somewhat scaly. 



Type locality: Kernville. California. 



Distribution: Kern and Tulare to Riverside counties, California. 



6. Eriophyllum Congdoni Brand. Bot. Gaz. 27: 449. 1899. 



An annual; stem branched above the middle, 1-2 dm. high, loosely floccose; lower leaves 

 spatulate, sometimes 2- or 3-toothed above, tapering into a petiole; upper leaves entire, sessile, 

 lanceolate or oblanceolate, 1-3 cm. long, rather loosely floccose; heads solitary at the ends 

 of the branches; peduncles 4-7 mm. long; involucre campanulate, 7-8 mm. high, 5-6 mm. 

 broad; bracts 8 or 9, oblong, acuminate; ray-flowers 8 or 9; ligules yellow, elliptic, 4-5 mm. 

 long; disk-corollas 3 mm. long; tube slightly glandular-puberulent, shorter than the cylindro- 

 funnelform throat; achenes 4 mm. long, hirsute; squamellae 6-8, acute or lanceolate, 1.5-2 

 mm. long or those of the ray-flowers shorter. 



Type locality: Mountains near Hennesy's, Mariposa County, California. 



Distribution: Mariposa County, California. 



7. Eriophyllum lutescens Rydberg, sp. nov. 



A low cespitose perennial; stems decumbent at the base, rarely more than 1 dm. high, 

 densely tomentose; lower leaves cuneate, more or less 3-toothed at the apex, with a yellowish 

 tomentum, 1-1.5 cm. long; upper leaves oblanceolate and entire; heads solitary at the ends of 

 the stems; peduncles 3-5 cm. long; involucre turbinate, about 6 mm. high and broad; bracts 

 9-12, elliptic, obtuse, sparingly floccose: ray-flowers 9-12; ligules golden-yellow, 9-10 mm. 

 long, 2-3 mm. wide; disk-corollas 3 mm. long, glandular-puberulent; achenes about 4 mm. long, 

 glabrous; squamellae ovate, acute, nearly 1 mm. long. 



Type collected on Shuleye Mountain, Madera County, California, 1907, John Murdoch 2585 

 (Gray Herb.). 



8. Eriophyllum monoense Rydberg, sp. nov. 



A perennial, with a decumbent cespitose base; stems about 1 dm. high, densely white- 

 tomentose, very leafy; leaves obovate, 1 cm. long or less, with 3 rounded lobes at the apex, 

 rather thick, densely white- tomentose on both sides; heads solitary at the ends of the stems; 

 peduncles 3-4 cm. long; involucre nearly hemispheric, about , mm. high, 8-10 mm. broad, 

 tomentose; bracts 8-10, elliptic, rounded or obtuse at the apex; ray-flowers 8-10; ligules 

 yellow, 7-8 mm. long, about 5 mm. wide; disk-corollas 4 mm. long; tube glandular-hirsute, 

 somewhat shorter than the puberulent throat ; achenes glabrous, striate, 3 mm. long; squamellae 

 8, unequal, the longer about 1.5 mm. long. 



Type collected south of Mono Lake, July 8, 1863, Brewer 1823 (U. S. Nat. Herb. 323165). 



Distribution: Middle Sierra Nevada, California. 



9. Eriophyllum leucophyllum (DC.) Rvdb. Mem. X. Y. Bot. Gard. 



1: 422. 1900. 



Bahia leucophylla DC. Prodr. 5: 657. 1836. 



Eriophyllum caespitosum leucophyllum A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 19: 26. 1883. 



A perennial, with a suffruticose decumbent base; branches erect, 1.5-2, rarely 3, dm. 



high, densely white-tomentose; leaves cuneate to oblanceolate in outline, 1-2 cm. long, 3-5- 



toothed or -lobed towards the apex, or the uppermost entire, densely white-tomentose on 



both sides, rather thick; heads solitary at the ends of the stems; peduncles 2-5 cm. long; 



involucre hemispheric, 8-10 mm. high, 10-15 mm. broad; bracts 10-13, densely white-woolly; 



ray-flowers 10-12; ligules oblong, 8-10 mm. long, 3-4 mm. wide; disk-corollas 4-5 mm. long; 



tube scarcely 2 mm. long, shorter than the cylindro-campanulate villous throat; achenes 



