Part 2, 1915] CARDUACEAE : HELENIEAE 95 



38. Eriophyllum tanacetifolium Greene, Pittonia 2: 21. 1889. 



Eriophyllum confertiflorum*latum H. M. Hall, Univ. Calif. Publ. Hot. 3: 186. 1907. 



A low shrub, 3-6 dm. high; branches white-tomentose or floccosc, rather simple; ]< 

 3-5 cm. long, spatulate in outline, deeply 3-5-lobed, with oblong or linear, entire or few- 

 toothed divisions, white-tomentose beneath, floccose above; heads 3-10 in a dense corymbi- 

 form cluster; involucre campanulate, about 7 mm. high, 5-6 mm. broad, densely tomentose; 

 bracts about 6, broadly oval; ray-flowers 4-6, or wanting; ligules 4-5 mm. long, 3 mm. wide; 

 disk-corollas 4 mm. long, glandular-puberulent; achenes 3.5 mm. long, sparingly appressed- 

 hairy; squamellae 8, unequal, linear, obtuse, about 1 mm. long. 



Type locality: Wooded hills of Calaveras County, California, between Sheep Ranch and 

 Murphy's. 



Distribution: From Calaveras and Mariposa to Los Angeles and Santa Clara counties, Cali- 

 fornia. 



39. Eriophyllum confertiflorum (DC.) A Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 



19: 25. 1883. 



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



Eriophyllum confertiflorum discoideum Greene, Man. Bay Reg. 207. 1894. 



A low shrub, 3-6 dm. high; branches slender, finely white-tomentose; leaves 2-3 cm. 

 long, pinnatifid or bipinnatifid with narrowly linear divisions, white-tomentose beneath, 

 slightly floccose and glabrate above, with revolute margins; heads almost sessile in small 

 clusters or corymbs at the ends of the branches; involucre campanulate, 3-4 mm. high and 

 about as broad, floccose; bracts about 6, oval, obtuse; ray-flowers 4-6, or wanting; ligules 

 3 mm. long, 2 mm. wide; disk-corollas 2.5 mm. long, glandular-puberulent; achenes about 

 2 mm. long, hispid on the margins, glandular on the faces; squamellae 8-12, elliptic, about 

 0.5 mm. long. 



Type locality: California. 



Distribution: Central and southern California. 



40. Eriophyllum trifidum (Nutt.) Rydberg. 



Bahia Irifida Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. II. 7: 374. 1841. 

 Bahia confertiflora Irifida A. Gray, Bot. Calif. 1: 380. 1876. 

 Eriophyllum confertiflorum trifidum A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 19: 25. 1883. 



A low shrub, about 3 dm. high, branched above; branches strict, rather stout, densely 

 white-tomentose; leaves 1-2 cm. long, rather thick, divided into 3-5, short, linear or subulate 

 lobes, white-tomentose beneath, glabrate above; heads few in small dense clusters at the ends 

 of the branches; involucre campanulate, nearly 5 mm. high and broad, densely tomentose; 

 bracts 5 or 6, oval; ray-flowers usually as many; ligules 2 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide; disk-corollas 

 2.5 mm. long; tube glandular-hispid, much shorter than the glandular-granuliferous throat; 

 achenes 2 mm. long, hispidulous on the angles, glandular-granuliferous on the faces; squamellae 

 about 8, oblong, about 0.6 mm. long. 



Type locality: Santa Barbara, California. 



Distribution: Sandy places, mostly near the coast, from Monterey, California, to central 

 Lower California. 



41. Eriophyllum cheiranthoides Rydberg, sp. nov. 



A low shrub, 3-6 dm. high, branched above; branches white-tomentose; leaves pinnatifid 

 or bipinnatifid, 3-4 cm. long, with 3-5 principal divisions and linear-lanceolate ultimate lobes, 

 white-tomentose beneath, floccose and more glabrate above; heads in small corymbs, dis- 

 tinctly peduncled; involucre about 5 mm. high and broad, campanulate, tomentose; bracts 

 5 or 6, oval; ray-flowers 5 or 6; ligules orange, 3-4 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide; disk-corollas 

 2.5 mm. long, glandular-puberulent; achenes 2 mm. long, more or less hispidulous all over, 

 especially the marginal ones; squamellae 6-8, oblong, 0.5 mm. long. 



Tvpe collected on Mission Hills, Santa Barbara, California, 1908, Alice Eastwood 21 (herb. 

 N. Y. Bot. Gard.). 



Distribution: Southern California. 



