26 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VOLUME 33 
Type collected at San Diego, California, in 1875, Dr. E. Palmer (U. S. Nat. Herb.). 
DISTRIBUTION: Southern California. 
II. Maritimae. Perennial herbs, decumbent at the base, with rootstocks; leaves canes- 
cent beneath, from crenate to bipinnatifid; heads in simple spikes; staminate involucres with 
8-10 round lobes; paleae filiform to oblanceolate; anthers with cuspidate inflexed tips; fruit 
small, glandular-puberulent to slightly pubescent, l-celled, usually 1-flowered; beak solitary, 
one lobe longer than the other; spines not hooked, subulate to lanceolate, channeled on the 
upper side. 
4. Franseria bipinnatifida Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. II. 7: 344. 
1840. 
Gaertneria bipinnatifida Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 339. 1891. 
Ambrosia bipinnatifclia Greene, Man. Bay Region 187. 1894. 
A perennial herb, with a creeping rootstock; stems decumbent at the base, 2-10 dm. high, 
strigose; leaves petioled, bipinnatifid, densely white-strigose on both sides; blades triangular 
or ovate in outline, 2—5 cm. long; ultimate divisions ovate, often toothed; staminate heads in 
terminal racemes, short-peduncled; involucre 3-5 mm. broad, glandular-puberulent; lobes 
8-10, triangular; paleae of the receptacle narrowly linear-oblanceolate, 1-nerved, puberulent; 
corolla slightly puberulent, brownish on the angles and margins; anthers with incurved cus- 
pidate tips; pistillate heads clustered in the upper leaf-axils and at the base of the raceme, 
subtended by small lanceolate leaves, mostly 1-flowered; fruit about 8 mm. long, glandular- 
puberulent and with a few scattered hairs; beak solitary, thick, subulate, 1.5—2 mm. long; 
spines subulate, thick, somewhat flattened or grooved on the upper side, not hooked, their 
bases connected by low ridges. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Santa Barbara, California. 
DISTRIBUTION: Coast of Oregon, California, and Lower California. 
Franseria bipinnatifida < Chamissonis. Leaves finely canescent, spatulatein outline, deeply cleft 
or lobed; spines of the fruit terete or nearly so. California, Bolander 2453, in part (U.S. Nat. Herb. 
323429). 
5. Franseria villosa (Eastw.) Rydberg, sp. nov. 
Franseria bipinnatifida villosa Eastwood, in herb. 
A perennial herb, with a creeping rootstock; stem decumbent below, white-villous with 
long spreading hairs, especially in the inflorescence; leaves bipinnatifid, densely canescent, 
more or less villous; rachis only slightly winged; blades triangular or deltoid in outline, 3-6 
cm. long; secondary segments obovate, mostly obtuse, toothed; staminate heads in terminal 
racemes; involucre saucer-shaped, about 5 mm. broad, glandular-puberulent; lobes 8-10, 
triangular; paleae of the receptacle filiform or nearly so; corolla glandular-granuliferous; 
anthers with cuspidate incurved tips; pistillate heads in small clusters at the base of the stami- 
nate raceme and in the upper axils, 1-flowered; fruit about 8 mm. long; beak single, elongate- 
conic, 2-3 mm. long; spines 18-20, elongate-conic, 2—3 mm. long, only slightly channeled. 
Type collected near Mendocino, California, in June 1898, H. E. Brown 843 (N. Y. Bot. Gard.). 
DISTRIBUTION: Vancouver Island, British Columbia, to central California. 
Franseria Chamissonis < villosa. Like F. villosa in pubescence and fruit, but the leaves less 
dissected and with broader segments. Vancouver Island, Macoun 87869 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.) ; 
also at San Francisco, California. 
6. Franseria Lessingii Meyen & Walp.; Walp. Nova Acta Acad. 
Leop.-Carol. 19: Suppl. 268. 1843. 
Franseria Chamissonis bipinnatisecta Less. Linnaea 6: 508. 1831. 
Franseria bipinnatifida dubia Eastw. Proc. Calif. Acad. III.1: 117. 1898. 
Gaertneria bipinnatifida dubia A. Heller, Muhlenbergia 1:6. 1900. 
A perennial herb, with a creeping rootstock; stems decumbent at the base, canescent 
with appressed or somewhat loose hairs, 3-10 dm. long; leaves bipinnatifid, densely white- 
strigose on both sides; blades ovate in outline, 5-8 cm. long; rachis distinctly winged between 
