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lowest ones nearly i cm. long, 3 mm. wide, green, floccose, a 

 little connate; those above becoming smaller, the upper ones 

 brownish and glabrous or nearly so on the outside, hairy inside, 

 connate: pedicels filiform, one from each fork, of varying length, 

 but the longest about 2 cm., slightly hairy: involucres campan- 

 ulate, green, somewhat roughened, about 4 mm high and a little 

 broader, divided to the middle into 5 quadrate-obovate rounded 

 lobes with hyaline margins, the tube part marked with 5 lines 

 or veins: bractlets inside the involucre spatulate, concave within, 

 a little shorter than the involucre: calices greenish, i mm. long 

 on stipes nearly three times as long, barely extending beyond 

 the involucre, the lobes cuneate-quadrate, truncate, somewhat 

 puberulent on the outside. 



The type is no. 7733, collected April 20, at Sunset, Kern 

 county, on dry stony hillsides, where it was abundant. There 

 are several specimens of it in the herbarium of the California 

 Academy, under the name ^'■Eriogonum angnlosum^^\ but it is 

 very different from that species, though related to it. The 

 branches and leaves though floccose, show the yellow-green of 

 the the plant through the hairs. One peculiarity is the pres- 

 ence of the veins on the lower half of the involucres. 

 Eriogonum gossypinum Curran, Bull. Cal. Acad. 1: 274. 1885. 



No. 7748, collected April 22, at the foot of China Grade 

 near Bakersfield, Kern county, is from type locality. Mrs. Cur- 

 ran collected it "near Bakersfield, July, 1884," where it is plen- 

 tiful on the dry plains. It is a species remarkable on account 

 of the cottony appearance of its flowers. 

 Eriogonum clavatum Small, Bull. Torr. Club, *^5: 50. 1898. 



No. 7693, collected April 14, on open stony hillsides at 

 Randsburg, Kern county, in the Mojave desert. The type came 

 from the "mountains of northern Lower California," collected 

 by Orcutt, and its occurrence even so far north as the Mojave 

 'desert is unexpected, but Miss Eastwood has collected it near 

 New Idria, San Benito county, and at Estrella, San Luis Obispo 

 county, localities still much farther north. 



