48 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [JANUARY 
achene 5™™ long, much compressed, narrowly obovoid or cuneate, 
only the edges densely ciliate especially toward the apex. 
Acton, Los Angeles ios California, June 1902. Type specimen, no. 
3724, in Herb. Stanford Univers’ 
This interior species differs Fit the seacoast E. californica Nutt., and can 
at once be distinguished in the field by its conspicuous light grayish bark, its 
cinereous pubescence, its fewer and larger heads, and its individual habit. 
Chrysopsis californica, n. sp.—Perennial, 4-6¢™ high, from 
woody base: stem long silky pubescent, fastigiately branching, termi- 
nating in a subcorymbose inflorescence: leaves more or less fascicled, 
sessile, often clasping, the average length 2°™ and width 5™™, 
though often much shorter or longer, granular surface covered with 
dense white silky pubescence, edges becoming involute: heads 2°™ 
broad, upon short leafy ascending peduncles: involucral bracts 
many, villous pubescent on exterior surface, linear or narrowly 
lanceolate, regularly imbricated in several series: receptacle naked: 
ray flowers: pappus 2-seriate; the upper of reddish-brown scabrous 
bristles 6™™ long, the lower lighter colored; minutely paleaceous, 
only 0.5™™ long: corolla 2°™ long, lower half tubular, upper expanded 
into a semi-obovate or oblanceolate ligule which is closely and minutely 
3-toothed at apex; opposite this primary ligule is usually present a 
secondary one which is shorter, more linear and inserted upon its 
throat: disk fowers: pappus bristles in one series, 2™™ long: corolla 
glabrous and tubular, with rich yellow acute segments, 1.5™™ long: 
filaments short, separate, inserted upon a short thick base: style 
exserted and deeply cleft, the branches triangular acuminate and 
stigmatic only on exterior surface; achenes apparently all fertile, 
4™™ Jong, short pubescent, slightly compressed or 4-costate. 
a Sandy soil —e beach, Gaviota, Santa Barbara county, California, May 
— Type s, en, no. ne Eee S ge University. 
e a The piace ke is rare, and w was collected at same station where kee 
ee  Deasanaen Ndi: n. sp.—Annual or at “most biennial: stem 
Le brown, generally =, chiefly branched toward the top, hispid 
wee : : ascending, leafy,the lower ones shortest, 
“occasionally hedring subglomerate claites. below the terminal one: 
leaves ovate, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, short hispid pubescent 
erence more ee z-5™™ long, the smaller 
