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cent with brownish hairs, obovate or truncate and usually emarginate, 
entire or obscurely dentate above the middle, with prominent ascend- 
ing nerves beneath: peduncles pubescent, equaling half the length 
of the stem or branch, subflexuose above the middle; bicephalous 
heads terminal, sessile, unequal in size, each subtended by a sub- 
sessile trifoliate leaf with broad ovate stipules; involucre none: calyx 
densely pubescent, 4™™ long including the 2™™ sharply acuminate 
teeth: corolla exceeding the calyx teeth by 1 or 2™™, hyaline and 
united with a stamineal tube below the middle; upper lip whitish, 
obovately rounded and surrounding the lateral lobes or wings; lateral 
lobes oblongish, slightly shorter than the banner, obtuse or acute 
apical portion nearly white, the middle portion purple, the basal 
portion hyaline and with an auricle; keel obtuse, shorter than the 
wings, purplish: anthers very small: ovary glabrous, 2-ovulate; 
style glabrous, equaling the stamens, terminally recurved, bearing 
a capitate stigma. 
Type specimen no. 4812, collected at San Pedro, San Mateo County, Cali- 
fornia, May 1903. 
his species comes nearest to the so-called Californian T. Macruei H. and 
A., but is a much smaller and more prostrate clover, with leaves distinctly obo- 
vate and emarginate. It forms dense prostrate mats on a high promontory near 
the sea. 
Eriophyllum Greenei, n. sp.—A cespitose perennial, from a 
woody base: stems many from the crown, lanate, branched above 
the middle: leaves numerous on the sterile stem, the lower ones 
opposite, the upper ones alternate, petiolate, triangularly ovate in 
outline, 2 to 3-pinnately divided, lanose on both sides; the segments 
short, blunt, very narrow, with incurved margins inclosing a dense 
matrix of woolly hairs; petiole about equaling the blade, as broad 
as the segments with edges incurved: heads heterogamous, solitary, 
terminating the leafy branches, ovoid, 1°™ broad; peduncle white 
tomentose, without bracts; involucre quite rigid, cup-shaped, densely 
lanate, united at base; bracts in one series, acute, 1o™™ in length: 
ray flowers light yellow, 15™™ long including the achene, pistillate; 
tube 2™™ long, pubescent, ligule 8"™ long, 3™™ wide, obovate or 
oblanceolate, many-nerved, apex obscurely 3-toothed: style arms 
1™™ long, narrowly flattened, obtuse: receptacle obscurely pitted, 
somewhat raised and subconic: disk flowers perfect, very numerous, 
