172 LEAFLETS. 



nafce, their many bracts with long scaberulous green tips and 

 abruptly as well as almost pungently acute. 



Santa Maria, southern Calif., Nov., 1893. Mrs. Blochman ; 

 the plant barely in early flower at that date. 



I. LATiFOLiA. Very stout stems densely leafy and villous- 

 arachnoid, the cobwebby wool extending to the bases of the 

 broad sessile leaves, these spatulate-obovate, J to i inch long, 

 i inch wide below the summit, coarsely and closely serrate- 

 toothed all around except at base : heads many, rather large, 

 forming a dense cyiuose panicle or thyrsus ; involucres short- 

 turbinate, of not very many bracts, these short, mostly obtuse. 



Island of Santa Cruz, coast of California, by the writer, 

 Aug , 1886, also a form of the same with foliage longer and not 

 as broad, from Santa Rosa Island, Brandegee, 1888. 



I. SEDOIDES. Bigelovia veneta var. sedoides, Greene, Bull. 

 Calif. Acad. ii. 400. 



I. viLLOSA, Stems extremely robust but decumbent, parted 

 above the middle into a broad panicle of many and compact 

 cymose corymbs, the stem and all branches very leafy and softly 

 villous with long spreading somewhat viscid and arachnoid 

 pubescence : leaves of main stem 1 inch long or more, spatulate- 

 oblong, obtuse, coarsely serrate, sparsely villous, viscidulous, 

 those of the branches not half as large, often subentire : heads 

 not of the largest, very many and crowded; involucre turbinate, 

 bracts much imbricated, pungently acute, the green tips conspic- 

 uous but bearing no gland. 



Type specimens in my own herbarium, gathered from the Uni- 

 versity Botanic Garden at Berkeley, Calif., in 1893, by Mr. Davy. 

 The plant was sent from southern California, but I cannot recall 

 by whom. Its next of kin is 7. latifolia. 



I. DECUMBENS. Branches^ a foot long, very slender, decum- 

 bent, sparsely leafy and leaves very small, narrowly oblanceolate, 

 sharply serrate-toothed : heads much scattered, about 3 at the 

 end of each slender branchlet and all pedicellate; involucre 

 small, turbinate, bracts imbricated, oval or oblong, acute, their 

 green tips villous-pubescent : achenes narrow-turbinate, very 

 silky ; pappus of coarse rigid unequal bristles, 



