170 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [aucustT 
woolly stems white striate-angulate, lucid, leafy: lower leaves pinniatfid, 
2 inches or more in length, not rigid nor pungent tipped, 1-nerved, 
with about 6 pairs of unequal dentate segments, these obtusish or 
acute, diminishing in size toward the winged clasping petiole; middle 
and upper leaves inch or less in length, rigidulous, pinnately 3 to 7- 
toothed with spinulose-tipped pungent teeth, soft-pubescent on both 
sides and somewhat revolute on the margins: heads terminal or sub- 
terminal on the branches, only moderately aggregated, including the 
spreading bracts 6 to 8 lines long; the bracts green except at the 
pungent tip, entire or rarely 3-toothed, with midrib prominent beneath 
and considerably thickened toward the base: ray-flowers including the 
achenes only 2% lines long, ligules 15 to 18, yellow, 3-toothed at the 
apex; the tube very glandular-pubescent ; the pappus of the disk-flowers 
3 €rect narrow awns, nearly equaling the yellow corolla: chaff 2 lines 
long, scarious-margined and with thickened somewhat recurved tips.— 
Collected by Mr. J. W. Congdon, at Salinos, Monterey county, Cal- 
ifornia, May 26, 1886 (no. 151). Most nearly related to H. Parryt 
Greene, but of lower stature, and with very different woolly pubescence, 
more divided foliage, and shorter ray-flowers.—B. L. RoBINSON and 
J. M. GREENMAN, Harvard University. 
