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Desert, Nevada." Our plant is possibly some other species, but 

 is referred here for the present. 



Eriogonum angulosum Benth. Trans. Linn. Soc. lH: 406.//. 



7c?.//. 1837. 



No. 7747, collected April 22, in a ravine at Oil City, near 

 Bakersfield, Kern county, growing in open, sandy places. This 

 is not typical £. angulosum^ for the type, as shown by the plate, 

 has flower heads twice the size of ours, and critical examina- 

 tion may reveal other more radical differences. A specimen 

 collected near Livermore, Alameda county, by Miss Eastwood, 

 in a region which Douglas probably explored, has the large 

 heads of the type, while all the specimens from more southern 

 stations are like our own. 



Eriogonum variabile 



Annual, somewhat floccose tomentose except in the inflor- 

 escence, about I dm. high or less, spreading, broader than high, 

 caulescent: main stem short, i or 2 cm. long, then dichotomous 

 or trichotomous, the first internodes about 4 cm. long in large 

 plants, 2 cm, long in small ones, the others shorter, all the stems 

 6-angled below, 4-angled above: radical leaves spatulate or ob- 

 lanceolate, 3 or 4 cm. long, acute or obtusish, 7 mm. to i cm. 

 wide above, gradually tapering to 3 or 4 mm. at the sessile base; 

 stem leaves sessile, usually a pair at each node, linear or ellipti- 

 cal, acute or acutish, the lowest 1-2 cm. long, 2-6 mm. wide, the 

 upper ones successively shorter; each node with 3 lanceolate, 

 acuminate membranous bracts: filiform pedicels one from each 

 fork, 2 or 3 cm. long in large plants, except the very uppermost, 

 g^labrous, purplish: involucres broadly turbinate, hardly 2 mm. 

 high, and of equal width across the top, green, puberulent, the 

 short triangular lobes obtuse, the margins hyaline: bractlets in- 

 side the involucre puberulent, dilated and concave above on the 

 inside, the end rounded, hyaline: calices pinkish, 2 mm. long or 

 less, on stipes as long as the involucre, the segments oblong, 

 about I mm. wide except toward the slightly dilated and lacer- 



