30 Contributions from the Gray Herbarium 
variations and by the citation of specimens illustrative of their 
respective ranges. 
Stems glandular-hirsute and hispid or be var. subsinuata with 
broadly obovate ne es Oy 
Sepals gradually narr wed at ase, Bulaicalite or broader 
but mostly distant ya ees ec tae ny fn oa P. ramosissima. 
Sepals abruptly perl to a claw-like base, obovate and 
cl approximate. 
Stems gla: ndular-hirsute as well as his 1: GSS an hare nae var. suffrutescens. 
aster” pias gird smooth except for a more or less dense 
saree WA Ciaeras Gary uke «yuan we Rate c's var. subsinuata. 
Stems pi ae or merely epcabotet rarely very sparsely 
hispid; sepals narrow and distant..................+. var. eremophila. 
- RAMOSISSIMA Dougl. ex Lehm. Pug. ii. 21 (1830). P. decum- 
‘ade Greene, Pitt. v. 17 (1902). P. ramosissima Dougl., forma 
decumbens (Greene) Brand, Univ. Cal. Publ. Bot. iv. 215 (1912). — 
Washington to Lake County, northern California. — CALIFORNIA: 
Little Shasta River July 6, 1876, Greene, no. 896; Big Chico Creek, 
Butte es July 2, 1914, Heller, no. 11517; Yreka, Pe 28, 1876, 
Greene, 896; Ke lseyville, July, 1885, Brandegee. WASsHI NG- 
TON: a Co., June 22, 1893, Sandber g & Leiberg, no. nit 
Soap Lake, Gran t Co. June 28, 1902 | MacKay, no: 1: 2e 
giro Cice. River, July, 1883, Brandegee, n 975. 
. SUFFRUTESCENS Parry ex Gray, Syn. Fl. ii. si I. 416 (1886). 
af venoms Dougl., forma Pigs Monty te (Parry) Brand, Pflan- 
zenreich iv. 251. 92 (1913). bifurca Greene, Pitt. v. 18 (1902 
P. fastigiata Greene, |. c. P. pan iets Greene, l. ec. 19. — Cali- 
fornia, from Kern to San Diego County. — Antelope boris Los 
An geles fall fehl 1884, Oliver; San Bernardino, May 15, 1897, 
Perec : Claremont, Aug. 2, 1903, Baker, no. 3661; San 
Diego, tg ey Thurber, no. 580; Los An geles, 1882, 1884, 
Nevin; Wilson Peak, June 9, 1895, Davidson, no. ee 1876, Parry & 
Lemmon, no. 262; Witch Creek, June 20 0, 1903, Abrams, no. 3781; 
1881, Parry, no. 200; Fort Tejon, Kern Co. , July 2, 1891, Coville & 
Funston, n ea Bt 
4 var. beiscela (Greene), comb. nov. P. subsinuata Greene, 
Pitt. v. 19 (1902). P. oo c di riage 
