156 LEAFLETS. 



Ceralvo Island, Gulf of California, 12 Febr. 1906, E. W. 

 Nelson and E. A. Goldman. Type in U. S. Herb. 



Senecio Goldmanii. Apparently a tufted perennial, the 

 simple and very erect stems equably leafy, 2 feet high, rather 

 amply corymbose at summit : leaves simply pinnate into very 

 long and not numerous filiform segments, sessile and ascend- 

 ing, rather fleshy, glabrous : involucres less than Y^ inch 

 high, broad and subcampanulate, the bracts linear, abruptly 

 and shortly acuminate but hardly acute, glabrous but appar- 

 ently dotted sparsely with minute pellucid glands : rays short, 

 oblong, yellow. 



Rosarito, I^ower California, 25 Sept., 1905, collected by 

 E. W. Nelson and E. A. Goldman, their No. 7165 as in U. S. 

 Herb. 



FransEria carduacea. Stout and probably a tall shrub, 

 the flowering branches clothed with ample foliage ; stems, 

 peduncles, also the midvein of the leaf whitened with a thin 

 soft tomentum, the herbage otherwise hoary with a dense 

 harsh whitish muricate-scabrous indument ; leaves ample, 

 subsessile, 6 inches long or more, laciniately pinnatifid into 

 about 2 or 3 pairs of lobes, all acuminate and coarsely and 

 unevenly toothed, texture very firm : inflorescence terminal 

 and panicled, the pistillate involucres rather many, closely 

 beneath the quite short and broad staminate racemes : fruit 

 immature, but soft-pubescent throughout and with few rather 

 soft curved or hooked spines. 



Lower California, collected at Aquaje de Santana, 35 miles 

 north of San Ignacio, 4 Oct., 1905, by E. W. Nelson and 

 E. A. Goldman. Allied to F. arborescens, Brandg., but with 

 different indument, the foliage very broad and repeatedly 

 gashed, with the general cut of that of some coarse thistles. 



ScHMALTziA RiBiFOUA. Shrub stout and rigid, the stems 

 apparently erect, with short branches nearly divaricate, their 

 bark after the first year ashy gray, glabrous, that of young 



