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1. Encelia farindsa A. Gray. Brittlebush or Incienso. Fig. 5174. 
Encelia farinosa A. Gray in Torr. in Emory, Notes Mil. Rec. 143. 1848. 
Woody below, much branched, forming a rounded bush 1-1. m. high, exuding a —— resin, 
the branches finely canescent- — ee cen nip = gg n slender — it . long, 
the blades ovate to ie a g, 2-5 ae ohne e or acute, eate at base, i eons 
but often undulate-margined o suki bate sila den ots aoried. densely al. pecans far inose- 
toment siiaae often iabec scents rence Eely ile and glabrous or nearly so above, bear- 
in : 
s ani ‘heads 1.8-4 m. Ww riate, 
beat mm. i, ctatiat, the phyllaries linear to ovate, obtuse or acutish, loosely short- plore, 
ore or less glabrate ; rays about 8-18, yellow , 7-15 m m. lo ong; & k yellow; achenes about 
eee villoasaifete pe nd v illous on center of faces or ape 
Dry slopes and washes, sen inginer ed in the desert, Sonoran Zones; ray County, California, south through the 
Shue’: Be Colorado Deserts to central Lower California and extendin ng west ward in Ve sdgarg sal = the San Ber- 
nardino Valley and about Lake Wiaiasee. Riverside Coent ; also southern Nevada —_ to A , Sonora, and 
—— Papal a: eg of Carrizo mbes ~ ree and — 1 Counties, C _ fornia ’March-June. 
celia nicodénta (Blake) I Tohnston, Proc. Calif. pry ‘IV. 1198. 1924. (En- 
celia aes ? atisdeae Blake, Proc. eee poe “49: 362. 1913.) A color em which dition from E, fart 
nosa var. Lite ot ng ae the disk-flowers purple above. Occurring with E. farinosa var. farinosa but ns 
ange. 
517: ja farinosa 
ame 5175. Encelia frutescens 
5172. Enceliopsis covill 
5173. 
