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der, leafy and flagelliform, not numerous, each ending in a 

 large campanulate head, both leaves and branches very white 

 with a more or less persistent wool, this extending to the lower 

 half of the involucre, but there ending abruptly ; leaves of 

 branches oblanceolate to oblong, mucronate-acute, entire : head 

 H inch high, 1}( inches wide including the rather large rays : 

 upper bracts of involucre green and very glandular, only the 

 lower woolly : bristly tufts of style-tips conspicuous. 



Along the seaboard at Redondo, Los Angeles Co., 25 May, 

 1902, Ernest Braunton. A new member of that coastal group 

 of species which is vernal in its flowering. All other species 

 here described are autumnal — even late-autumnal. 



CoRETHROGYNE LAVANDULACEA. Tall, rigid, perhaps suf- 

 frutescent ; fastigiate branches rigidly ascending, hoarily 

 pannose-tomentose, as are also the entire oblanceolate or oblong 

 small cauline leaves; basal leaves not known: heads few, of 

 middle size, corymbose at ends of branches : involucres broadly 

 turbinate, nearly /^ inch high, the very many straight linear 

 bracts closely imbricated, pungently acute, minutely and vis- 

 cidly glandular-scaberulous but not tomentose : rays broad, 

 short, of a rich lavender-purple : achenes nearly linear, lightly 

 silky-villous, crowned with the usual brownish pappus. 



Santa Catalina Island, California, Mrs. Trask, Sept. 1898. 

 Plant said to be common in one particular part of the island 

 on dry slopes. 



Lessingia BakEri. Upright and rather strict, 1 foot high 

 or more, with few rigid short subcorymbose branches above 

 the middle : herbage in no part very woolly : cauline leaves 

 ovate, cuspidate-acute, sessile, those of the branches smaller, 

 not crowded or imbricated : heads subturbinate, yi inch high 

 or less, some sessile in the axils, more of them corymbose in 

 those at the ends of the branches ; bracts of involucre arach- 

 noid-pubescent, not really woolly : corollas light rose color. 



Grassy slopes near Searsville, San Mateo Co., C. F. Baker, 

 Oct. 1902 ; mistaken by myself, but hastily and without 

 comparing, for my L. hololeuca, which does not belong to this 

 division of the genus. 



