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5. Artemisia Parisau A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 17: 220. 1882. 
Type locality: “Newhall, Los Angeles Co., and in Cajon Pass, 
California.”” According to Parish (Zoe 5: 120), “the second sta- 
tion ‘Cajon Pass’ given in the original description is an error. The 
plant has been found, as yet, only at Newhall.” 
Distribution: A common plant in the vicinity of Newhall and 
in Antelope Valley often forming large shrubs 2 meters high or 
more. Much of this material has been mistaken heretofore for 
Artemisia tridenta angustifolia A. Gray, with which it is closely 
related if not identical. 
Specimens examined: Newhall, S. B. @ W F. Parish 1065; 
Helen D. Geis; near Lancaster, Wells, Dec., 1909; near Burbank, 
Braunton 007. 
16. LEPIDOSPARTUM. 
1. LeprposparTtuM squamMatTum A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 19: 50. 
1883. 
Linosyris squamata A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 8: 290. 1870. 
Linosyris squamata Breweri A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 8: 290. 
1870. 
Linosyris squamata Palmeri A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 8: 290. 
1870. 
Tetradymia squamata A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 9: 207. 1874. 
Type locality: “Low hills of the Sierra Santa Monica, Los 
Angeles Co., Californica.’ When Dr. Gray first published his 
diagnosis of this species he had only two specimens in his her- 
barium. One of these, collected by Brewer on “low hills of the 
Sierra Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co., California,” was placed in 
the variety Brewer1,; the other, collected on the “desert of the Colo- 
rado, Arizona, 1870 [by] Dr. E. Palmer,” became his second 
variety, Palmeri. This treatment, fortunately seldom practiced 
by Dr. Gray, left no specimens to represent the typical species. 
We are therefore obliged to consider the Brewer plant as the type 
of the species, reducing the varietal name to synonymy. The 
desert form, Palmeri, does not seem distinct. 
Distribution: Southern Monterey County, southward to Lower 
California, and eastward to Arizona. Dry sandy washes in the 
Upper and Lower Sonoran. 
Specimens examined: Fort Tejon, Heerman; Rothrock 276; 
