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Ptilocalais NUTANS (Geyer) Greene, Bull. Cal. Acad 2: 54. 

 1888. 



Scorzonella nutans Geyer, in Hook. Lond. Jonrn. Bot. 6: 

 253. 1847. 



Ptilophora nutans Gray, Mem, Am. Acad. II. 4: 1849. 



Calais nutans Gray, Pac. R. R. Rep. 4: 112. 1857. 



Microseris nutans Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 9: 208. 1874. 



No. 7939, collected June i, near Shasta Retreat, Siskiyou 

 county, near shrubs in somewhat clayey soil. The type was 

 from "dry sunny loamy declivities of Spokan and Coeur d'Aleine 

 mountains," Idaho. 



Anisocoma acaulis Gray, Bost. Journ, Nat. Hist. 5: in. 

 1845. 

 No. 7678, collected April 14, in sandy ravines in the hills 

 about Randsburg, Kern county. It is a handsome plant with 

 conspicuous dark lined involucral bracts and pale yellow flow- 

 ers. The "dense white tomentum on the edges of the pinnately 

 lobed and often runcinate leaves," is not permanent. 



Malacothrix californica DC. Prodr. 7: 192. 1838. 



No. 7649, collected April 11, in sand on the edge of the 

 plain two miles west of Pampa Station, Kern county. This is 

 the type of the genus, collected by Douglas, perhaps at Mon- 

 terey, where it is common in sand near the shore, as it also is at 

 San Francisco and other places. 



Malacolepis gen. nov. 



Malacolepis coulteri (Harv. & Gray) 



Malacothrix ? [Malacolepis) Coulteri Harv. & Gray; Gray, 

 Mem. Am. Acad. II. 4: 113. 1849. 



No. 7602, collected April 6, in rich soil in ravines on the 

 plain back of Kern, Kern county. Since this plant has been 

 described and its characters as distinguished from true Mala- 

 cothrix given in the Synoptical Flora, there is no need of a de- 



