BULLETIN 



OF THE 



Somiicrn Galllornla flcademy ol Sciences 



VOL I LOS ANGELES, CAL, APRIL I, 1902. ,, HO. 4 



^Two New Erigerons !!f!^ J^l'lt 



BY EDW. L. GREENE. BOTANICAL 



Er I GERON FRAGiLis.y Tufted stems erect, rigia. sTenaer, 2 

 or 3 feet high, very leafy up to the corymbose summit, dark-green 

 or even purplish, scaberulous: leaves linear- filiform, ij4 to 2 

 inches long, ascending, rigid, very fragile when dry, rough with 

 minute pustulate incurved hairs: corymbose panicle loose and 

 ample, of 10 to 15 heads, the branches ascending: subulate bracts 

 of the broad-campanulate involucre in about 3 series, nearly 

 glabrous: rays numerous and narrow, deep-violet: achenes oblong- 

 linear, nearly glabrous, or with obvious setiform hairs on and 

 near the raised margins: inner pappus finely capillary, scaberulous 

 and very fragile, the outer present but inconspicious, composed 

 of very short and fine bristles. 



Trabucco Canyon, Orange Co. California, June, 1901, Te 

 Roy Abrams. (n. i8o[.) Species in some sort intermediate be- 

 tween E. foliosus, Nutt. and E. tenuis simits, Greene. 



Erigeron STRiATus.y Stems 2 or 3 feet high, stoutish, very 

 erect, bright-green, glabrous and notably striate, very leafy up 

 to the corymbose summit: leaves oblong-linear, about lyi inches 

 long, obtuse, carinately-nerved beneath, glabrous on both faces, 

 the margins remotely scabrous-denticulate: heads 5 to icon 

 slender rigid ascending bracted peduncles :involucres campanulate 

 their oblong-linear acute bracts in about 3 series and glabrous: 

 rays rather few and very narrow, deep-violet: achenes oblong- 

 linear, sparsely strigulose or almost glabrous, the margins not 

 prominently raised or thickened; inner pappus fine and very 

 scabrous, not fragile, the outer scanty and wholly inconspicious, 

 consisting of few and very short bristles. 



Huston Flat, San Bernardino Co., CaL, August, 1900. 

 Dr. W. R. Shaw, 



The specimens communicated by Le Roy Abrams. In habit 

 and foliage this is much like the northern mountain E. inornatus, 

 Greene, but the heads and flowers are of a very different character. 

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