146 Muhlenbergia, Volume H. 



LOBELIACEAE 



Nemacladus gracilis Eastw. Bull. Torr. Club, 30: 500. 1903. 

 No. 7729, collected April 20, at Sunset, Kern county, on 

 gravelly hillsides. The type is from Alcalde, Fresno county, in 

 the same mountain range, but further north. 



CICHORIACEAE 



Scorzonella lepidota 



Perennial, covered more or less throughout with small 

 chaffy scales, pubescence confined chiefly to the involucres, 

 but scanty: stems about 3 dm. high, commonly with several 

 branches from near the base, leafy in the lower half: leaves lan- 

 ceolate or oblong in outline, the lowest about i dm. long, 3 or 

 4 cm. wide, the others shorter but not narrower, all laciniately 

 divided into long-acuminate linear or lanceolate divisions: scape- 

 like peduncles occupying the upper half of the branches, bear- 

 ing one or two leaves 3 or 4 cm. long: heads 2 cm. high, the 

 open flower about 3 cm. across, bright yellow: bracts of the in- 

 volucre in three series, the outer few, the body 3 mm. long, ob- 

 long or lanceolate, 2 mm. wide, with an abrupt acumination 

 2 mm. long; the second series with quadrate-ovate body 4 mm. 

 long, 3 mm. wide, abruptly narrowed to an apiculation over 

 2 mm. long; the inner lanceolate, almost 2 cm. long including 

 the long acumination of 7 or 8 mm. into which the 4 mm. wide 

 body gradually tapers: akene 5 mm. long; the linear-oblong 

 palea 5 mm. long, less than i mm. wide, lacerate toothed about 

 the apex; pappus dull white, 5 mm. long, armed with short as- 

 cending hairs. 



The type is no. 7812, collected May i, 1905, along the sum- 

 mit of the first ridge west of Keene station in the Tehachapi 

 mountains, Kern county, California, in open grassy places. It 

 seems to approach 6". laciniata Nutt. of northern California and 

 Oregon in its foliage, but is unlike it or any of the others in the 

 essential characters of involucre, palea and pappus. ^ 



