1915] ABRAMS & SMILEY—ERIODICTYON 131 
Miss Eastwoop, red scovering the same plant and wishing to solve the problem, 
sent specimens of her Monterey plant and also mts material from San 
Diego to Kew to be compared with the types. The person at Kew who investi- 
gated the matter for her replied that << Eiodictyon oaiiees and E. tomen- 
tosum are conspecific, and your plant is apparently an undescribed species.” 
This seemed final, but from our distributional studies we found that the north- 
ern limit of true crassifolium is far south of the region visited by Douctas, who 
first collected tomentosum. We know that Douctas collected in the vicinity 
where Traskiae and crassifolium denudatum grow. Which of these was the 
true tomentosum was not evident without access to the type, but that one of 
them and not crassifolium would prove to be it seemed probable. We wrote, 
therefore, to Dr. Orro Strapr, of the Kew Herbarium, who furnished us with a 
photograph of the type of both crassifolium and tomentosum, and also fragments 
for study. The evidence was clear; tomentosum and niveum were found to be 
one and the same. 
TYPE LOCALITY.—Not given in the original publication, but collected by 
Dovctas probably in the vicinity of Mission San Antonio, Monterey County. 
Distrirpution.—On the chaparral-covered eastern slopes of the Santa 
Lucia Mountains, extending southward through the middle foothill region of 
Monterey and San Luis Obispo counties. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED.—Monterey County: without locality but probably 
from the Jolon region, Douglas 1833; Jolon, Vasey 439; Mrs. K. Brandegee, 
June 8, 1909; Tassajara Hot Springs, E/mer 3210; San Antonio Creek, above 
the Mission, Dudley, May 11, 1895; Cholome, Lemmon; Arroyo Seco, Santa 
Lucia Mountains, Dudley, January 1, 1896; China Camp, on road to Tassajara 
Hot Springs, alt. 3500 ft., Cox, July 1908; near Soledad, Congdon, June 1881. 
San Luis Obispo County: between Pozo and La Panza, Miss Eastwood, June 10, 
1902; Santa Margarita Mountains, east of pass on road to San Luis Obispo, 
Dudley, April 3, 1903; central coast ranges, Palmer, 389. 
7. ER1topicTyon TRASKIAE Eastw. Proc. Cal. Acad. III. 1: 131. 
1898. 
Eriodictyon crassifolium subsp. Benthamianum var. Traskiae Brand, in ENGLER, 
anzenreich §9:140. 1913. 
An erect branching shrub 1-2 m. high, clothed with a hoary 
feltlike tomentum except on the calyx: leaves oblanceolate to 
elliptic-ovate, 5-12 cm. long, 1.5-4.cm. wide, acute at apex, 
narrowed at base to a petiole 1 cm. long or more, dentate, veins 
obscure on the upper surface, reticulate-rugose beneath: panicle 
usually much branched, bearing short congested terminal cymes, 
or these elongated; flowers short-pediceled, crowded: sepals 
