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Nevapa: Moapa, Lincoln Co., alt. 518 m., 12 May 1906, Kennedy 
1112 (N); Arizona: 1869, Palmer part (N). 
45. E. rrutescens Gray var. actoni (Elmer) Blake, n. comb. 
Leaves ovate, cuneate or truncate at base, very rarely toothed, 
whitened with a rather soft fine pubescence; pubescence of stem and 
peduncles also softer than in the typical form; involucral scales 
mostly ovate-acuminate; rays apparently always present; otherwise 
as in the typical form. 
Encelia actoni Elmer, Bot. Gaz. xxxix. 47 (1905). 
E. frutescens {. actoni Hall, |. e. (1907). 
Specimens examined: Nevapa: Esmeralda Co., 31 May 1886, 
Shockley 416 (G); Candelaria, alt. 1677 m., June 1887, Shockley 540 
(G); without locality, 1872, Lt. Wheeler (N); alt. 1050 m., Beattie, 
Nye Co., 5 June 1912, Heller 10422 (N); Cauirornra: Pleasant 
Cafion, Panamint Mts., alt. 1677 m., 6 May 1897, Jones (N); near 
Independence, 29 May 1906, alt. 1160 m., Hall & Chandler 7217 (G); 
hillsides, Argus Mts., alt. 1220-1525 m., 1897, Purpus 5383 (GN); 
Tehachapi foothills, Kern Co., 30 May 1905, F. Grinnell (N); east 
slope of Walker Pass, Kern Co., alt. 1300 m., 21 June 1891, Coville & 
Funston 1020 (N); Rock Creek, desert slopes of San Gabriel Mts., 
alt. 1158 m., July 1908, Abrams & McGregor 548 (N); Liebre Mts., 
June 1908, Abrams & McGregor 402 (GN); Acton, June 1902, Elmer 
3724 (N, TYPE NUMBER of E. actoni®7); Mohave Desert, June 1887, 
S. B. Parish (F); near Hesperia, Mohave Desert, 30 May 1901, S. B. 
Parish 4873 (N); San Francisquito Creek, 27 May 1905, F. Grinnell 
(N); San Francisquito Cafion, 26 May 1905 (N); Victor, alt. 792 m., 
17 May 1903, Jones (N); San Jacinto, June 1901, Hall 2007 (N); San 
Felipe Cafion, 22 June 1888, Orcutt 1483 (N); San Jacinto, 14 Aug. 
1997, V. Bailey (N); San Felipe, June 1852, Thurber 634 (G); San 
Isabel, June 1852, Thurber 634 (G); near San Felipe, 10 Oct. 1858, 
Sutton Hayes 443 (N); dry rocky hills, Jacumba, 31 May 1903, 
Abrams 3667 (GN); Smith’s Mt., San Diego Co., 1880, Vasey 285 
(FN); Arizona: Colorado River, Schott (G)38; “Jesup Rapids,” 
18 Feb. 1858, Ives Expedition, in part (N). 
5. E. aupescens Gray. Frutescent (?); branches striate, whit- 
ened with a roughish appressed pubescence, terminating in naked 
- Originally taken by Gray (Bot. Mex. Bound. 88) to be E. conspersa Benth. 
and afterwards considered (Proce. Am. Acad. viii. 656) a small variety of Z. 
californica, but best placed here. 
