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5. Franseria eriocéntra A. Gray. Woolly-fruited Burbush. Fig. 5224. 
Franseria eriocentra A. Gray, Proc. Amer. nia 7: 355. 1868. 
Gaertnera eriocentra =i hrrs Rev. Gen. Pl. 1: 18 
Branching shrub, 3-9 dm Peas white. bared the gs “i% ao —— ig and 
spreading-pilose. Leaves ovate, t angular, or oblong, 2-5.5 cm. lon wed i pose 
petiole or subsessile, sinuate-toot $n, to pinnatifid w nth lac iniate lobes, paittatrimlny tee gre 
above, densely canescent-tomentulose and sparsely -Phalear along the veins beneath; he ae in short 
racemes or racemiform panicles toward tips of branches and branchlets, the staminate above 
staminate heads 4-6 mm. in diameter, about 30-flowered, the inv ase Sem acutely about T0.- lobed 
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to middle, the corollas pilose above ; fruit 1-flowered, rin ae m, mm. long, stipitate-glandular 
(especially on the spines) densely long-villous, bearing mostly near middle about 20 or fewer 
rigid, straigh te, minate, crowde flattish or groove 
Desert washes and earn, Upper Sonoran Zone; nfo eis pa eb a in eastern San Bernardino County 
to southern Utah aor > southern Nevada to northwestern Ariz Type : Prov ames Mountains, San Ber 
nardino County, California. April—July 
6. Franseria epacaeage ae San Diego Burbush. Fig. 5225. 
Franseria chenopodiifolia Benth, Bot. Sulph. 26. 
Gaertnera chenopodiifolia pr tereet arom te ee ara 6: 461. 1910. 
Franseria lancifolia Rydb. N. Am 1, 33: 
Suffrutescent, leafy, slic t 0. 5m eis at length whitish-barked, branching, the branches 
ee cee and glutino ous, lecoaet Leaves ovate or deltoid-ovate, 23. cm. long, nearly as 
e, slender-petioled, acute or obtuse, broadly carinicee or round base, crenate-serrate or 
obecavely lobed, subcoriaceous, tomentulose but greenish above, density whitish- sorbentelons and 
eriocentr: 
Sea 5225, Franseria racist 
5222. Franseria chamissonis 5224. Franseria 
5223. F i 
