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Chrysoma fascicitlata Eastw. Bull. Torr. Club, 33: 215. 

 1905. 

 No. 8425, collected July 31, on the sand hills along the 

 railroad about two miles northeast of Del Monte, Monterey 

 county. This is from type locality, "along the coast near Mon- 

 terey, California." It is abundant, but was just beginning to 

 bloom, so but few specimens were obtained. 



LESSIngia pectinata Greene, Proc. Phila. Acad. 1895: 548. 

 1896. 

 No. 8423, collected July 31, on sand hills along the rail- 

 road about two miles northeast of Del Monte, Monterey county. 

 From type locality, and plentiful from a point just outside the 

 grounds at Del Monte well over toward Castroville in the sand 

 hills, at least along the railroad. A low mat-like plant, often 

 over a foot in diameter, 



CORETHROGYNE CAUFORNICA DC. Prodr. 5: 2 1 5. 1 836. 



No. 8414, collected July 24, in sandy pine woods back of 

 Point Pinos light house, Monterey county. The rays are pink- 

 ish, but turn darker in drying. The plants are mostly ascend- 

 in_g-irom a decumbent base. 



Corethrogyne rigicla (Gray) 



Corethrogyne filagmifolia var. i^igida Gray, Syn. Fl. 1; 



- Part 2. 170. 1878. 



Corethrogyne viscidiila Greene, FL Fran. 378. 1897. 



No. 8422, collected July 31, on the sand hills along the 

 railroad about two miles northeast of Del Monte, Monterey 

 county. A large upright plant, much branched, the large flow- 

 ers, either pink tinged or purplish. From type locality, and 

 rather -plentiful. In the Synoptical Flora Gray credits Bentham 

 with the authorship of the name rigida as a variety of C. incana^ 

 in PI. Hartw. 316. But Bentham used it merely as a descrip- 

 tive term: "var. ? rigida, basi lanata, superne viscoso-pubescens, 

 ramosa polycephala. Flores radii ex Hartw, violacei. — In col- 



