88 Contributions from the Gray Herbarium 
dotted or nearly glabrous. Leaves opposite or alternate, broadly 
ovate, acuminate, truncate or cordate at base, entire but somewhat 
wavy-margined, above softly canescent-pilose with appressed hairs, 
beneath very strongly reticulate and slightly rough-pilose with 
spreading hairs, pale, gland-dotted, 2.8-6 cm. long, 2.3-4.5 cm. 
wide; petioles 3.5-13 mm. long. Flowering branches long and 
with few minute bracts, bearing about 14 cymose-panicled heads 
clustered at the summit of long naked peduncles, on pedicels 6-27 
mm. long; heads 2 em. wide; disk 8-9 mm. high, 11-13 mm. wide. 
Involucre 2-seriate, 44.5 mm. high, its phyllaries subequal, pilos- 
ulous, above tuberculate, callose-mucronulate, the ovate indurated 
ribbed base longer than the oval or oblong-ovate herbaceous apex. 
Rays about 8, 8 mm. long, 2.5 mm. wide; disk-corollas appressed- 
pilose, 4.5 mm. long. Pales abruptly acute, pilose on back above, 
4.5 mm. long. Achenes appressed-pilose, 2.5 mm. long. Awns 
rather stout, 1.6 mm. long; squamellae about 10, coherent at base, 
1 mm. long. — Wats.! Am. Nat. vii. 301 (1873); Rothr. in Bot. 
Wheeler Exp. (Rep. U. 8. Geog. Surv. West of 100th Merid. vi.) 
161. t. 4. f. 6-10 (1878); Coville, Contr. U. 8. Nat. Herb. iv. 130 
(1893). — CALIFORNIA: basalt rocks, Argus Mts., 610-915 m.., 
1897, Purpus 5321 (G., K., Mo., U. S.); Telescope Mts., 1871, 
Wheeler (typE: G.); south slope of Brown’s Peak, Inyo Co., 
750 m., 16 Jan. 1891, Coville & Funston 183 (U. 8.); Inyo Co., 
610-915 m., 1896, Purpus 3018 (U.S8.). 
38. V. tomentosa Gray. Frutescent, erect, 3-4 m. high, the 
stem pilosulous, often pilose at the nodes, the branches loosely 
hanging. Leaves opposite to the inflorescence, ovate or triangular- 
ovate, acuminate at apex, truncate to shallowly cordate at base, 
serrulate with irregular depressed-triangular teeth or the upper 
subentire, above canescent or greenish-canescent with dense sub- 
appressed pilosity, the hairs slightly tuberculate at base, beneath 
densely and softly canescent-pilose-tomentose, 4-10 cm. long, 
2-8 cm. wide, those of inflorescence reduced; petioles 6-16 mm. 
long. Heads 3.3-4 em. wide, in 3-16-headed panicles at ends of 
branches; peduncles 1-5 em. long; disk 9-13 mm. high, 1~1.6 cm. 
thick, Involucre 2-seriate, 6-10 mm. high, graduated, the phylla- 
ries densely pilose-tomentose, with ovate or ovate-oblong body and 
longer loose linear-lanceolate callose-mucronate apex. Rays 8, 
8-20 mm. long, 5-10 mm. wide; disk-corollas slender, ascending- 
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