450 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [JUNE 
ovate: akenes 3™™ long, linear-clavate, hirsute ; pappus of the 
disk akenes 1.5-2™™" long, the longer scales narrow, the shorter 
ones wider and more laciniate ; pappus of the ray akenes shorter 
and similar: receptacle convex, higher than wide, smooth. 
‘‘Mountains near Hennessy’s, Mariposa county,’ California, 
May 1894. 
Received from Mr. J. W. Congdon under the name of £. nubigenum Greene. 
Eriophyllum paleaceum, n. sp.— Annual, whitened with loose 
cottony wool, 10-12 high, with many monocephalous branches : 
leaves I-1.5° long, linear-spatulate, the lower somewhat attenuate 
into a petiole and often two or three-lobed or dentate about the 
tip: involucre of eight narrow acuminate scales, distinct to the 
base: heads 6-8™™ high, forty to fifty-flowered, on peduncles 
2-3" long: rays six or seven, yellow, narrowly elliptical, 7™ 
long, very slightly two or three-lobed at tips: disk flowers 3™™ 
long, equaling the involucre, funnel-form with a short cylin- 
drical pubescent tube: style tips short-conical ; appendages to 
the anthers narrowly ovate: akenes 2.5™™ long, linear-clavate, 
rounded at the top, hirsute ; pappus a crown of minute denticu- 
late scales: receptacle conical, twice as high as broad, pale- 
ceous especially about the apex where half a dozen persistent 
linear scales become 1™™ long, 
Kernville, California, May 14, 1892, and Olancha, California, 
May 1891, 7. S. Brandegee ; also in the mountains of Tulare 
county, California, Dr. C. A. Purpus. 
Laphamia intricata, n. sp.— Puberulent and slightly pube- 
scent above ; intricately much branched from a woody root, I15- 
20 high, the numerous stems each bearing two to six heads on 
peduncles 0.5—2™ long: leaves nearly all alternate, linear, 5— 
8™™" long, obtuse, dilated above to 1™™ wide, somewhat hispid : 
bracts of the involucre 3™™ long, linear, with thin margins 
especially the inner ones, the acute tips more pubescent, mid- 
rib thickened: ray flowers none; disk flowers about thirty, 
bright yellow, with glandular pubescent tube: pappus wanting : 
akenes hirsute and slightly ciliate. 
