aS ae — aia. barely cleft 
44 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [JANUARY 
seems to answer well to the above diagnosis. Its range appears to 
be restricted to this coast, and it should be looked for on some of the 
northern Santa Barbara Islands. In Proc. Calif. Acad. II. 4:202. 
~ 1894-5, Mrs. KATHERINE BRANDEGEE writes that in her opinion it 
appears to be nothing but a stocky southern form of C.dentatus T. & 
G. growing on unsheltered sandhills. In the same paragraph she 
states that C. dentatus in its typical form appears to be confined to 
the vicinity of Monterey. Still there are quite remarkable differences 
between the two forms or species, and to one observing them in the 
field they would not for one moment be taken for the same. C. den- 
tatus at Monterey has not the dense prostrate habit. The leaves of 
C. impressus are broadly elliptical to nearly orbicular, while in C. 
dentatus they are oblong-cuneiform; furthermore, the branches of 
C. impressus are rigid and spinescent, while in C. dentatus they are 
flexible and not spinescent—a character also contrasting C. ihyrsi- 
florus Esch. and C. sorediatus H. & A. 
Malacothrix succulenta, n. sp.—Succulent maritime perennial 
herb, with long fleshy creeping and numerously branched stems 
forming dense mats: stem above the sand branching near the base 
or at least below the middle, 1-2°™ high, rarely erect but usually reclin- - 
ing, when young floccose especially on the concealed portion, soon 
becoming glabrous: lower leaves persistent after they become dry, 
linear-oblanceolate, sessile when mature, glabrous on both sides, 
5°™ long, 8™™ across the widest part, obtusely rounded, rarely 
undulate or dentate along the upper margin: scapes gradually 
thickened at the apex, usually branching from a little below the 
middle, its bracts minute, weak and sub-flexuose: heads solitary, 
turbinate, 2°™ long, about that in width at the top: involucral bracts 
chiefly in one series, 1o™™ long, thin, glabrous, linear, loosely imbri- 
_ cated, subtended by numerous smaller triangular bracts of the scape: 
flowers many, all with lemon-colored ligulate corolla: receptacle 
naked, flat: achene smooth, 1.5™™ long, with semi-truncate or short 
obtuse ends, bearing a soft silky white pappus whose bristles are 
finely scabrous and equally 6™™ in length: corolla 7™™ long, gradu- 
ally tapering into the 4-toothed ligulate expansion, much exceeding 
the pistil, its tube 3™™ long and glabrous: stamens exserted; anthers 
linear, united, 3™™ long; reaps ae — distinct, et 
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