26 I<BAFIvETS. 



subentire, or with few serrate teeth at summit : involucres 

 large, campanulate, mostly subsessile singly in the axils of the 

 leaves which much exceed them, a few pedunculate ones at 

 summit of stem or branch : bracts of involucres much imbri- 

 cated, but almost concealed by the woolly investure. 

 San Bernardino Mountains, S. B. Parish, 23 Oct. 1891. 



CoRETHROGYNE BREvicui<A. Low, much branched from a 

 ligneous basal part, the branches 5 to 8 inches high, widely 

 corymbose-panicled from about the middle; branches and 

 leaves with a thin but close and permanent tomentum : leaves 

 small, oblanceolate, obtuse, entire : branches of panicle and 

 bracts thereof rough and also viscid with many short-stipitate 

 glands : involucres broadly turbinate, less than Vz inch high, 

 their much imbricated bracts with acute spreading tips viscid- 

 glandular and recurved, also marginally beset with short-stipi- 

 tate glands : achenes oblong-linear, thinly soft-silky ; pappus 

 rather copious, reddish. 



Mountains of San Diego Co., Oct. 1899, C. R. Orcutt. A 

 plant from the same general region, collected by K. A. Mearns, 

 in August, 1894, is provisionally referred here, is as small, 

 less shrubby, and with different involucres, though with the 

 same pubescence. 



CORETHROGYNE RACEMOSA. Evidently half-shrubby, the 

 straight ascending branches uncommonly stout, densely and 

 permanently white-tomentose, all subracemose from below the 

 middle : leaves small for the plant, white-woolly on both faces, 

 entire : heads mostly solitary and short -peduncled in the leaf- 

 axils; peduncles and turbinate involucres roughly viscid- 

 glandular : purple rays unusually large and showy ; achenes 

 rather loosely silky ; pappus fuscous. 



Mountains of San Diego Co., C. R. Orcutt, 1889. Speci- 

 mens in U. S. Herb, on same sheet with those typical of C. 

 brevicula, but species most distinct in habit, pubescence and 

 inflorescence. 



CoRETHROGYNE FLAGELLARIS. Basal parts Unknown ; 

 branches of a foot long perhaps reclining, at least very slen- 



