(BC) Provincial Museum of Natural History, Victoria, 

 B. C, Canada. 



(G) Gray Herbarium, Harvard University, Cambridge, 

 Mass. 



(O) University of Oregon, Eugene, Ore. 



(OAC) Oregon Agricultural College, Corvallis, Ore. 



(S) W. N. Suksdorf Herbarium, Bingen, Wash. 



(WSC) State College of Washington, Pullman, Wash. 



(WU) Willamette University, Salem, Ore. 



Crocidium pugetense St. John, n. sp., small annual her- 

 baceous plant, 0.5-2.5 dm. high; stems one to several, slender, 

 terete, glabrous but for the tuft of wool in the leaf axils, naked 

 and scape-like above; basal leaves numerous and rosulate, 

 spatulate somewhat fleshy, entire or dentate, glabrous; cauline 

 leaves clothing the lower half of the stem, small linear entire 

 or somewhat dentate or lobed, glabrous except for the con- 

 spicuous tuft of wool in the axil, 3-15 mm. long, about 1 mm. 

 wide; heads hemispherical; bracts 9-12, oblong- or ovate- 

 lanceolate, connate below, in one series but the bases of each 

 alternate one overlapping the intervening ones, lanate at the 

 tip otherwise glabrous, 4-7 mm. long, 2-3 mm. broad; ray- 

 flowers as many as the involucral bracts, yellow pistillate, 

 achenes narrowly and asymmetrically ellipsoid, 5-ribbed, 

 crisp-puberulent between the ribs, these hairs on wetting emit- 

 ting mucilaginous spiracles, 2 mm. long, pappus wanting, 

 corolla tube slender, distended at base, 1.5-2.3 mm. long, the 

 blade elliptic-lanceolate, 7-10 mm. long; disc-flowers yellow 

 numerous, achenes oblanceolate-ellipsoid 5-ribbed brown, 

 crisp puberulent between the ribs, the hairs on wetting emitting 

 mucilaginous spiracles, pappus bristles scaberulous, about 30, 

 white, persistent or tardily deciduous, equaling the corolla, 

 corolla tube very slender, almost filiform, distended at base, 

 0.1-0.2 mm. wide, 2-4 mm. long, limb campanulate, the lobes 

 erect or slightly spreading, 2.2 mm. long, stamens and stigmas 

 well included in the throat. 



Herba annua, floribus ligulatis cum tubo filiforme nudo, 

 floribus disci cum setis scaberulis, tubo filiforme 2-4 mm. longi- 

 tudine. 



British Columbia: Saanich Arm, Vancouver Island, May 6, 1919, 

 /. R. Anderson (WSC); Mount Finlayson, May 6, 1908, J. Macoun 88378 

 (G;BC); rocks, Saanich Arm, April 19, 1897, J. R. Aitderson 207 (BC); sea 

 beach, Parksville, May 4, 1900, J. R. Anderson 207 (BC); on rocks, Shawanigin 

 Lake, April 24, 1915, M. St. Barhe 5113 (BC). 



Washington: sandy banks, Whidby Island, April 17, 1897, A''. L. Gardner 

 183 (Type in Herb. State College of Washington); Orcas Island, Oregon 



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