314 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [MAY 
6°™ long with the achenes: tubular corolla yellow, sparsely pubescent, 
terminated by 5 obtuse segments: anthers 1.5™™ long, with apex 
triangularly ovate, bases obscurely auriculate; filaments barely as long, 
inserted upon the middle of the tube: style arms flattened, bearing 
small capitate stigmas: achene brownish black, 3™™ long, usually 
curved and attenuate from the base, subcompressed or 4-angled, edges 
ciliate: pappus persistent, less than 1™™ in length, of unequal paleae. 
Type specimen no. 4335, collected in the Mocho Creek Canyon, Alameda 
County, California, May 1903. 
Tt is intermediate between E. arachnoideum Greene and E. caespitosum Dougl., 
but sufficiently distinct from either. Named for Professor E. L. GREENE 
Navarretia Abramsi, n. sp.—Densely lanose herbs, about 6°” 
high: stems solitary or several from the base, rigidly erect, chiefly 
branched from the middle; branches rather stout and straight, 
ascending, terminated by solitary comparatively large heads: leaves 
mostly subtending the heads, the larger ones 2°™ long, 1 or 2-lacini- 
ately divided, soon becoming dry and brittle; the lobes very narrow, 
becoming glabrous, usually recurved and terminated by a fine sharp 
point: heads turbinate, the larger ones 1°™. across at top, densely 
surrounded by a matrix of lanate hairs, 6 to 10-flowered, the sub- 
tending bracts similar to the leaves but smaller: corolla easily sepa- 
rating from the base, 8™™ long including the 3™™ long segments, 
bluish or nearly white, glabrous, hyaline, conspicuously nerved; seg- 
ments 5, subequally divided, linear spatulate, entire or finely dentate _ 
at apex: stamens 5, barely exceeding the throat of the corolla, sub- 
equal in length, filaments threadlike, subequally inserted upon the 
tube 2™™ below the throat; anthers ovate or elliptic, 1™™ long, apex 
obtuse, base sagittate: style persistent, glabrous, minutely lobed at 
apex: calyx of the mature capsule 6™™ long, divided nearly to the 
base; the sepals straight and erect, linear, hyaline below the middle, 
held intact by the hairy matrix; the upper part of the sepals glabrous,. 
foliaceous, and acuminately pointed: capsule triangular, when 
mature easily falling out from the persistent calyx, straw-colored, 
smooth and shining, 4™™ long, 1.5™™ in diameter, apex pointed, 
3-celled, loculicidally dehiscent: seeds solitary in each cell, subterete, 
3™™ long, brown and very hard, with a gelatinous cover which 
* adily dissolves in water. 
