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te chaffy scales, which are entire, or 2-toothed at the summit, and 
fase ed with a str 2 central nerve, which is produced into a short sca- 
umble, branching (and a oeiiiiy annual) herb. Leaves 
alterna, Pin pinnatified a a fleshy, (destitute of glandsg); the lobes 
and rachis linear. ds terminal, solitary, nearly sessile, large, (about an 
inch long,) with one rs a involucrate [ieee atthe base. Corolla yellow.’” 
as * NIcoLLETIA OCCIDENTALIS. Gray. 
On the banks of the Mohahve river, growing in naked sands; flowering 
in e plant has a powerful and rather agreeable odor. This in- 
teresting genus (which is described from imperfect materials) belongs to the 
tribe SENECIPNIDER, and the sub-tribe Tagirinem. It has the habit of 
Dissodia, and exhibits ‘both the chatty: pappus of the division Tazetex, and 
* the pappus pilosus of Porophy dagns’ — Gray. 
PAiNeeALA 1} pumosa. Gray. 
« Shrubby, much branched ; leaves pinnatified, canescent on both sides, as 
e the branchlets; the divisions 3—7, oval, entire, and somewhat lobed ; 
ds rather loosely spiked; involucre ef the sterile flowers 5—7-cleft, 
‘strigosely canescent; of the fertile, ovoid, 2-celled, 2-flowered. 
A shrub, 1—2ufeet high, with divaricate rigid branches. Leavessearcely 
an inch long. Fertile (immature) involucre clothed with mainte soft lan- 
ceolate- subtilate ns which are sho d seale-like. 
the sandy uplands of the Mohali river, and very common in all 
t region of North ¢ valifornia. Flowering i in April. 
* : Ansdrs TOMENTOSA. Torr.and Fréim. 
” Suftra tescent ; clothed with a dense whitish pubescence ; leaves lanceo- 
late and ovate-lanceblate, acute af each end; segments of the calyx lanceo- 
late-subulate ; corolla slightly hairy ee lly. 
Stems numerous, erect, 12 to 18 inches high, woody, below simple or 
zbeanching: Leaves alternate; the lowest small and spatulate, or reduced to 
geass tae other 
oS OE Mage See Fates 
_o iis 
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ek 
s about 2 inches long, and varying from 4 to 8 lines in 
ie ae scuinat at the base. Flowers in rather dense, some- 
terminal clusters, nearly three-fourths of an inch long. Ca- 
ve length of the corolla, 5-parted to the base; the seg- 
w and ee Reralls with the tube ventricose above; the seg- 
neluded; filaments short; anthers ovate- 
= “The s specimens of this plant were 7 
ly collected west of the Rocky moun ‘h 
ie AscLErias speciosa.  Zorr. in nn. int New Work, ii, p. ais, 
: This ( prenetated i in care Ssh zepert) is 2. Douglasii of Hooker, well 
ora Boreali megninene, 2 ,t.142, It hasa wide range, be- 
ountains, and. fr ofn: She: Semacame - 
Boe The fruit w 
