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Oak Creek, Rusby 239; no locality, Palmer, 1869; Santa Catalina Mountains, 
Lemmon, May 1881; Copper Basin, Toumey 199-b; Cheno Valley, Towmey 
199-a; canyon 2 miles below Pagumpa, alt. 4000 ft., Jones 5089. Lower 
California: Trinidad Valley, Belding, May 1885; Vallederos Creek, Brandegee, 
May 29, 1893; San Pedro Martir Mountain, Brandegee, May 4 and 20, 1893. 
5. ERIODICTYON CRASSIFOLIUM Benth. Bot. Voy. Sulph. 35. 
1844. 
Eriodictyon tomentosum of various authors, not Benth. 
Eriodictyon crassifolium subsp. Grayanum Brand, in ENGLER, Pflanzenreich 
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Eriodictyon crassifolium var. typica Brand, loc. cit. . 
Shrub 1-4 m. high, with spreading branches, the twigs, both 
surfaces of the leaves, and calyx densely hoary or silvery tomentose: 
leaves 7-15 cm. long, 2—5 cm. wide, reticulate beneath, not revolute, 
entire or crenate, dentate or sometimes shallowly lobed: sepals 
about 5 mm. long, narrowly linear: corolla 10-15 mm. long, rather 
broadly funnelform, pale bluish purple, pubescent without: seeds 
smaller than in californicum and indented. 
TYPE LOCALITY.—‘‘San Diego.” 
DistRIBUTION.—Typical crassifolium inhabits the dry gravelly or sandy 
mesas and foothills in the vicinity of San Diego and extends northward to 
Santiago Canyon, Santa Ana Mountains, in the coastal region, also on the mesas 
and foothills between the Santa Ana and the San Jacinto mountains, where it 
extends to the desert slope in the vicinity of Palm Springs. Inthe Los Angeles 
it extending along the coastal slopes of the San Gabriel Mountains to the 
Santa Monica and San Fernando mountains, the leaves are covered with a 
eeceiat less dense and shorter tomentum, giving a dull gray instead of a 
hoary tone. These plants often have the flowers reduced in size and grade 
fairly gradually into the variety nigrescens. This more or less intermediate 
type extends on northward to the Tehachapi region. 
ECIMENS EXAMINED.—Kern County: San Emidio Canyon, Davy 2026; 
San Emidio Potreros, alt. pti ft., Hall 6391; vicinity of Fort Tejon, Xantus 
de Vesey 94; Canada de las Uvas, alt. 1050 m., Coville and Funston 1142. 
Los Angeles County: Mount Lowe, Grant 417; Little Santa Anita Canyon, | 
Abrams 2627; San Fernando Mountains, near Chatsworth, Abrams 1363; 
Santa Monica Mountains, Hasse, June 1892; Los Angeles, Brewer 39; pag 
dora, Braunton 293. Orange County: Santiago Canyon, Miss Bowma 
June 1899; Hall 9402. Riverside County: western base of the San vacate 
Mountains, Hall 2006; Hemet, Hail 561; Valle Vista, San Jacinto Mountains, 
Hall 1107; Elsinore, Abrams 5052; Tahquitz Canyon, near Palm Springs, 
