i88 Muhlenbergia, Volume 2 



Eriogonum pusillum T. & G. 



No V>?.Sa, collcclerl Iviay 18, in the foothills M'est of Bishop, 

 Inyo county, growing in coarse granite sand on slopes with a 

 southerly exposure. The plants are variable in size, the largest 

 about a foot high and as broad. 



No. 8366, collected on hills near Mina, Esmeralda county, 

 Nevada, differing in no respect from no. 8284, and growing at 

 about the same elevation, a little under 5000 feet. 



Eriogonum thomasii Torr. Pac. R. R. Rep. 5; 364. 1857. 



X ^: " ' z" ^Tqy iij at the base of the White moun- 



tains opposite Laws, Inyo county, in sandy soil, the plants pro- 

 cumbent. The type was collected "near Fort Yuma," Coville 

 also reports it from the southern part of Inyo county. Our sta- 

 tion at the upper end of the county is a considerable extension 

 northward of the range, and it probably occurs still further north 

 into Mono county. 



Eriogonum maciilatum 



Annual, 1-2 dm. high, dichotoniously branched from near 

 the base, the spread of the branches often equalling the height, 

 shortly lanate, leafy: lower leaves in a rosulate tuft at the base, 

 obovate-spatulate, in maximum sized plants 3*4 cm. long, half of 

 which is blade, this 15 mm, wide, obtuse and rounded at apex; 

 stem leaves a pair at each internode, oblong, the lower 2 cm, 

 long, I cm. or less wide, narrowed at the almost sessile base, 

 acutish; the uppermost similar, smaller but usually not so small 

 as to appear bract-like, all dull green and somewhat lanate 

 above, paler and closely lanate beneath: bracts at the nodes 

 three on the lower half of the plant, two on the upper half, tri- 

 angular, 3 mm. long, greenish and lanate above, smoother and 

 brownish beneath: floriferous throughout, usually a single fila- 

 mentous glabrous purplish pedicel 10-15 mm. long from each 

 internode: involucres broadly campanulate, 2 mm. high, nearly 

 3 mm. across, dull green, glandular puberulent, faintly 5'nerved 



