1905] ELMER—NEW WESTERN PLANTS AT 
hirsute on dorsal surface, thickly white lanate pubescent beneath, 
sub-scarious; axillary leaves shorter and narrower, fascicled, without 
a distinct petiole: heads 2°™ or more across, less than that in height, 
solidly flowered, nearly sessile or pedunculate; the lower bracts 
shorter and broader, 8™™ long, broadly elliptic, acute or obtuse, 
ascendingly nerved mainly from the broad base, soft pubescent, 
especially upon outer surface: flowers short pedicellate: calyx tubular, 
8™™ Jong, 14-nerved, terminated by 5 acute teeth 1™™ long: corolla 
at least 2°™ long, its tube exceeding the calyx teeth by 4™™, scarcely 
bilabiate, lower segments 6™™ long, exterior of exserted tubular part 
set with fine retrorse hairs: stamens 4, exserted: style slender, mostly 
included, 2-notched. 
Rattle Snake Canyon, a few miles back of Santa Barbara towards the Santa 
Ynez Mountains, Santa Barbara county, California, August 1902; rare, and only 
found in dense thickets of underbrush. Type specimen, no. 3728, in Herb. 
Stanford University. 
Encelia actoni, n. sp.—Shrub 1™ high, moderately branched, 
forming rather unique individual, bushes; wood soft; bark thin, 
smooth, grayish white, becoming finely checked and ultimately 
shredded: leaves not crowded, nor are the secondary ones fascicled, 
3°™ long, 2°™ wide, ovate, acute, chiefly entire, 3-nerved at base, 
alternate, without stipules, cinereous pubescent, upon petioles 1°™ 
long: heads 3°™ in diameter, solitary upon long cinereously pubescent 
scapes barely bracteate. below the middle: involucral bracts nearly 
of the same size, 7-10™™ long, 3-5™™ wide, imbricate in two or 
three series, hispidly pubescent and sub-glandular on the exterior, 
glabrous on the interior: ray flowers pubescent, tube bearing a pistil 
and gradually expanding into a truncate ligule 8™™ long, not numer- 
ous, with a sterile achene 4™™ long; ligule proper finely pubescent 
- on the outer surface, light yellow, many-nerved; disk flowers perfect 
and fertile, subtended by bracts; these 1o™™ long, strongly enfolding 
the achene, with a prominent midnerve besides the 1o-14 lateral 
nerves terminating in an acute glandular pubescent apex whose 
edges are fimbriate: corolla tubular, equaling the achene, lower one- 
fourth constricted, terminating in rather acutely thickened recurved 
apical segments: stamens included; filaments 1"™ long; anthers 5™™ 
long, introrse, with triangular apex, and minutely sagittate base: 
style 2-cleft, stigmatic only upon the upper outer side of the lobes; 
