Ericjeron. COMPOSITE. 215 



— Mountains of Jlontana to those of AYnshington Terr, and sparingly of California; first 

 coll. liy Xuttall. A soft-pubescent form, subalpine in Wasliington Terr, and E. Oregon, 

 C'ltsick, Braiidcii'f, has white ray.s ; a similar one, coll. by Li/nll near the British boundary, 

 has blue rays. >;Httairs character of achenium, " nearly smooth and striate," does uot accord 

 with his specimens. 

 B. Breweri, Gray. A span to a foot higli from slender rootstocks, slender, erect or 

 ascending, leafy up to the solitary or several and corymbusely dispiiseil heads, scabron.s- 

 cinereous witli minute spreading pubescence: lea\es small (the largest barely inch long), 

 narrowly spatulate or uppermost nearly linear, obtuse : heads 3 or 4 lines high : involucre 

 glabrous or minutely granulose-glandular ; its bracts unequal, obtuse: rays 12 to 20, violet, 

 3 lines long. — Proc. Am. Acad. vi. 541, & Bot. Calif. 1. c. — Open woods of the Sierra 

 Nevaila, California, from Kern Co. to ^ihasta ; first coll. by Bi-fwer and Torrey. 



c. Stems (common!}' from slender rootstocks) leafy, mostly branched above and bearing few or 

 several heads : pubescence not cinereous nor spreading, either strigose or none : pappus essen- 

 tially simple. 



E. decumbens, XrxT. Slender, commonly low or spreading, 6 to 18 inches high, strigulose- 

 pubescent or puberulent, or glabrate ; leaves linear or sometimes linear-spatulate (radical 

 not rarely 4 to 6 inches long and only a line or two wide, sometimes 3 lines wide) : involucre 

 minutely hirsute or pubescent: rays 15 to 40, white, purplish, or violet-tinged. — Trans. 

 Am. Phil. Soc. 1. l. 309 ; Torr. & I iray, 1. c. — Mountains, from Montana and Utah to Oregon 

 and northern part of the Sierra Xevada, California ; first coll. by Douglas and Xuttall. 



' E. foliosUS, XiTT. A foot or two high, smooth and glabrous, or with some minute rough- 

 ish hairs, usually branched above, and bearing scattered or loosely corymbose heads : leaves 

 linear, obtuse, the larger an inch or two long and 2 or 3 lines wide, but often much narrower : 

 ■ heads hemispherical, 3 or 4 lines high : involucre of somewhat unequal bracts, either 

 minutely puberulent-strigose or glabrous, rarely hirsute : rays 20 to 40, narrow, 3 to 5 hues 

 long, violet or purple, rarely white. — Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 1. c, & PI. Gainb. 117 ; Gray, 

 Bot. Calif, i. 329 (excl. \ ar. inoniatus), & Proc. Am. Acad. xvi. 88. E. Douylasii, Torr. & 

 Gray, Fl. ii. 177. E. decumbens, Benth. PI. Hartw. 316, not Xutt. iJijilojiupjjus occiilmUiUs, 

 Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. 350. — Sparsely wooded ground, common nearly throughout Cali- 

 fornia, especially in the western parts ; first coU. by Douglas. Xuttall's name ivas given to 

 the broader-leaved form. This passes freely into 



Var. stenoph;^llUS, Gray, L c. A common form, with leaves from only a line wide 

 to slender and Sliioim. — E. stenojihi/llus, Kutt. Ph Gamb. 176, not Gray. — Same range, 

 and equally common. 



Var. tenuissimus. Slemler, small-leaved : leaves nearly aU filiform, erect or ascend- 

 ing ; the longest only an inch long ; upper gradually shorter, becoming setaceous-subulate : 

 heads much smaller. — San Diego Co. on the Jlexican border, and within Lower California, 

 PaiTij, Palmer, Orcutt. 



__;__- = Heads wholly rayless: stems leafy to the summit: pappus simple. 



— E inornatus GR-4.r. Commonly glabrous throughout and smooth, or with some sparse 

 hirsute pubescence: stems 10 to "20 inches high, erect: leaves from broadly to narrowly 

 linear (an inch or two long, a hne or two wide) : hea.ls usually several and cymosely 

 disposed at the summit of the stem, short-peduncled, 3 lines high: involucre campanulate; 

 its bracts unequal and somewhat imbricated, very glabrous. — Proc. Am. Acad. xvi. 88. 

 E follosus, var. inornatus, Grav, Bot. Calif, i. 330. — Pine woods. Sierra Nevada and 

 coalst ranges of California to those of E. Oregon and 'O'ashington Territory ; first coll. by 

 Neivherry. Comes near some forms of E. follosus, but rayless. 



Var angustatus. Leaves verv narrowly linear or almost filiform : head? few or 

 scattered and paniculate. — Eed Mountain, Mendocino Co., California, Kellogg & Harford, 

 and Napa Co., Giwiie. ,. , > , 



Var viscidulus. Low and stouter: heads fewer and larger (4 lines high) : leaves 

 spatnlate-linear, shorter (seldom an inch long) : stems and peduncles occasionally hirsute- 

 pubescent, and as well as the leaves commonly more or less viscid. — Mountains of northern 

 part of California, Kdlogg & Harford, Prlngle. 

 E supplex Gu.iY. Villous-hirsute : stems decumbent or ascending from a slender root- 

 'stock mostly simple, a span to a foot long, terminated by single and very broad (5 to 6 



