﻿40 PLANTS HEERMANNIAN^E. 



4-5-radiatus. Eodem tempore eodemque ramo flores, fructum immaturum maturum- 

 que atro-rubentem, gustu grato rubique fructus simili exhibens. 



Stem fruticose 5-6 feet high, densely tomentose throughout, excepting the upper 

 surface of the leaves, which is very glabrous and slightly rugose. Folioles5-7 ovate- 

 lanceolate, finely serrate, coriaceous. Corymb small, 4-5-radiate. Berries deep 

 purple when ripe, agreeable to the taste, and almost equal to the blackberry. It bears 

 flowers, green and ripe fruit on the same branches. Posa Creek, August. 



COMPOSITE. 



CORETHROGYNE tomentella, Torr. & Gray's FL, Vol. ii., p. 99. In some of 

 our specimens with inflorescence much developed, a very striking appearance is pro- 

 duced by the very dense and white tomentum being abruptly replaced by a green 

 glandular and viscous pubescence on the whole inflorescence. Leaves on the lower 

 part of the branches linear-oblong, appressed and closely sessile ; those of the top of 

 the stem broadly obovate obtuse ; those of the branches small and bract-like. 

 Tejon Valley, September. 



GUTTIERREZIA microphylla, Gray. PI. Fendl. p. 74, adn. Brachyris microce- 

 phalia, D. C. Prodr. vol. v., p. 313. The inflorescence of our specimens being much 

 advanced, we were long deceived by the almost cylindrical and loosely turbinate 

 character of the heads of flowers which, in the genus Outtierrezia, are always more or 

 less ovoid. Tejon Valley, September. 



LYNOSYRIS ceruminosa, nova species. Caulis erectus 2-3-pedalis, pube substantia 

 resinosa ceruminis modo infiltrata et nitorem ochroleuco-aureum prsestante obtectus ; 

 apice fastigiato-ramoso, capitulis breve pedicellatis et apice confertis corymbum sistenti- 

 bus. Internodia superiora vix 3-4'". Folia linearia subcarnosa puberula, sulco su- 

 perne longitudinali, dorso rotundato ; caulinaria interdum pollicaria, ramealia 

 3-6'" longa, deorsum incurva. Squamae involucrales carinatee filiformi-mucronatse 

 flavescentes. 



Stem erect 2-3 feet high, fastigiately branched, with crowded heads on short pedicels 

 forming a corymb. The whole surface of the stalks is covered with a short, appa- 

 rently dense, tomentum infiltrated with a yellowish resinous substance, giving it a 

 texture of ear-wax of a greenish golden hue. Internodes of the branchlets 3-4'". 

 Leaves linear, puberulent, subcarnose, rounded on the back, with a furrow on the upper 

 surface, nearly 1 inch long on the stem, J" or less and recurved on the branches. 

 Scales of the involucre carinate, light yellow, darkening towards the filiform mucro. 

 Tejon Pass, September. 



