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22. Franseria camphorata Greene, Bull. Calif. Acad. I. 1: 192. 
1885. 
Franseria bipinnatifida A. Gray, in S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 11: 115. 1876. Not F. bipinnatifida 
Nutt. 1841. 
A perennial, shrubby at the base; stem 3-6 dm. high, with spreading branches, at first 
tomentose and glandular, in age glabrate; leaves interruptedly bipinnatifid, petioled, white- 
tomentose beneath, floccose above; blades triangular or ovate in outline, 5—8 cm. long; rachis 
winged and with small triangular lobes between the principal segments; ultimate divisions 
lanceolate, more or less toothed; inflorescence paniculate; branches raceme-like, bearing many 
staminate heads above and fewer pistillate ones below, the former on recurved peduncles about 
5 mm. long; involucre saucer-shaped, 7-8 mm. broad, glandular-puberulent; lobes 8-10, 
broadly triangular, acute; paleae of the receptacle with spatulate pubescent tips; corolla with 
brownish borders; pistillate heads subtended by small linear-lanceolate leaves, 2- or 3-flowered 
and 2- or 3-celled; fruit about 7 mm. long, glandular and hispid, broadly ovoid or globose, 
woody; beaks 2 or 3, broadly conic, 1.5 mm. long and about as thick at the base; spines 6-10, 
in 2 or 3 series, sub-conic, not hooked, with a pit above. 
TYPE LocALity: Guadalupe Island. 
DISTRIBUTION: Lower California; Guadalupe and Cedros islands. 
23. Franseria leptophylla (A. Gray) Rydberg, sp. nov. 
Franseria camphorata leptophylla A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 22: 309. 1887. 
A perennial, shrubby at the base, with slender branches, 2 dm. high or more, glandular- 
puberulent; leaves interruptedly bipinnatifid with narrow divisions, glandular-puberulent 
and slightly tomentulose beneath when young; rachis winged, with two or three small lobes 
between the principal ones; leaf-blades triangular in outline, 3-4 cm. long, with a few small 
lobes on the petioles below; ultimate divisions oblong, 1 mm. wide, with rounded small teeth; 
staminate heads in terminal racemes; peduncles recurved, 3 mm. long; involucre 4 mm. broad, 
rotate, glandular-puberulent, dark-green, with 10-12 deltoid lobes; paleae of the receptacle 
linear or slightly clavate, 1-nerved; corolla tinged with greenish-brown; pistillate heads in the 
upper axils, subtended by linear leaves, 2—8-flowered; fruit 5-6 cm. long, subglobose; beaks 
2-8, conic, 1 mm. long or a little longer; spines 8-12, in 2 or 3 series, 1 mm. long, conic, not 
curved, often with a pit in their axils. 
TYPE LOCALITY: San Fernando, Lower California. 
DISTRIBUTION: Lower California. 
24. Franseria hispida Benth. Bot. Voy. Sulph. 25. 1844. 
Gaertneria hispida Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 339. 1891. 
A low shrub; stem erect, about 2 dm. high, hispid with white hairs; leaves interruptedly 
bipinnate, triangular in outline, 5-7 cm. long and broad, greenish, glandular-pruinose as well 
as hispid with white hairs; rachis winged, with smaller ovate often lobed smaller divisions in- 
terposed between the larger segments; ultimate divisions of the latter round-lobed or toothed; 
racemes short, dense, some staminate and some pistillate; staminate involucre spreading, 4 
mm. broad, strongly oblique, cleft nearly halfway to the center into 6 ovate acute lobes, 
glandular-puberulent; paleae of the receptacle linear, slightly dilated at the apex, viscid- 
hirsutulous; pistillate involucre ovate, viscid-glandular, 2—4-flowered, 2—4-celled; fruit 4 
mim. long; beaks 2—4, broadly conic, very acute, 1 mm. long; spines 6—9, subulate, in 2 series, 
not hooked. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Magdalena Bay, Lower California. 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
VII. Albicaules. Low shrubs, with white bark; leaves pinnatifid or bi-pinnatifid; heads 
racemose, the staminate and pistillate ones often mixed; staminate involucre with 5-8 oval 
or ovate lobes; paleae spatulate to filiform, 1-nerved; anthers with acute or obtusish tips; 
* fruit 2-celled, 2-flowered; beaks 2, conic-subulate; spines subulate, flat, not hooked, or almost 
terete and somewhat hooked. . 
