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48 Contributions from the Gray Herbarium 
The species referred to Actinolepis are altogether of the same aspect 
as those treated by Rydberg under Antheropeas. Gray in 1883, 
Proc. Am. Acad. xix. 24, showed that DeCandolle’s genus should 
be merged in Eriophyllum. But to return to a consideration of 
Antheropeas. The key-character indicates that the tube and 
throat of the corolla of Eriophyllum are of unequal length; of 
Antheropeas of equal length. Unfortunately in the same work, 
I. c. 88, the description of HZ. obovatum Greene reads ‘ tube nearly 
equaling . . . throat’; of E. croceum Greene, 1. c. 89, ‘ tube 
. . . fully as long as... throat’; of E. caespitosum Dougl., 
l. c. 90, “tube . . . fully as long as . . . throat”; of E. Jepson 
Greene, 1. c. 92, “tube . . . equaling . . . throat.” From Ryd- 
berg’s own statements then it may be seen that there is no value 
whatever in the key-character “ tube of the corolla equalling the 
throat ” as a means of distinguishing Antheropeas from Eriophyllum 
because the latter genus contains a number of species which have 
corollas with “ tubes fully as long as throat.” According to Ryd- 
berg his genus differs also in having the anthers with subulate 
tips; the anthers of Eriophyllum are “ obtuse or acute.” This 
difference actually exists in greater or less degree but can scarcely 
be used as a basis for establishing a genus when the plants con- 
cerned in all other characters are good Eriophyllums. 
ERiopHytium WaLLAcEI Gray, var. RUBELLUM Gray, Proc. Am. 
Acad. xix. 25 (1883). Antheropeas rubellum (Gray) Rydb. N. A. 
Fl. xxxiv. 98 (1915). - 
_ Hall, Univ. Cal. Publ. Bot. iii. 182 (1907), was inclined to regard 
this as merely a color-form but generally at least the petals are 
distinctly toothed. They are nearly though not quite entire m 
the typical form with which this variety no doubt will be found to 
intergrade. Antheropeas australe Rydb., 1. ¢., is nothing but E. 
ea! > 
Wallacei Gray. It is supposed to have “ achenes densely — 
and “‘ squamellae longer than the corolla-tube.”’ Co-type mabe F 
in this herbarium which, moreover, is marked in Rydberg s han 
“A. australe”? has very sparsely strigose achenes (the hairs ast 
so few that they can be counted) and the squamellae barely eq 4 
the tube. The achenes of E. Wallacei are usually somewha 
pubescent and the pappus varies in length. This material was 
referred to E. Wallacei by Gray without question. Rydberg eo 
poses yet another new species, A. tenuifolium Rydb., 1. ¢ %™ 
