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lowermost as and deciduous, broadly apatite or obovate, often truncate at the apex, the 
petiolar bas lower part entire, the uppe r portio on dentate, serrate or serrulate, thinly or 
densely white: tomentose ‘aes coming partially glabrate in age; hea ds large, solitary o n the br anches, 
rset rarely in twos or threes, the glandular peduncles w with few sm all, linear tract: involucre 
7-9 mm. high, hemisphere phyllarie s 4-S-seriate, a ely imbricate and spreading, linear, glan rast 
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Oregon, south to yoni Rpeven h California, Type locality: odega Bay, Sonoma County, Meafernia June—Aug. 
This_taxon show ively ae variation; the few collections having an erect habit have been made by 
Tracy in Humboldt tomboy ‘Califor a. 
2. Corethrogyne califérnica DC. California Corethrogyne. Fig. 5576. 
Corethrogyne californica DC. Prod. 5. 215. 1836. 
Corethrogyne caespitosa Greene, Fl. Fran. 378. 1897. 
Plants 9-20 cm. high, stems few from a woody root, nye white- rong Bae or 
branched near the base, very leafy below, decumbent at base e, erect above and terminated by a 
single head. Leaves 2-3.5 cm. long, rather thin, much exceeding the internodes, linear- oblanceolate 
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well-defined spot or purplish, the inner weakly ca crnikgtious to nearly scarious exc rhe the pie : 
rays art achenes about 3.5 mm. long, the reddish pappus longer than the 
Ope 1 slopes ,H umid Transition one San Francisco County south to Monterey pitas Coal. Type 
locality: rE Catifornia,” presumably Monterey. Collected by Douglas. April-June 
ely collected in 7 ‘typical form. The type locality of the taxa C. eucophylla, C. Hage ies | var. filagint- 
fella C. filaginifolia var C. tomentella, and C. viscidula also is Monterey iy = environs, presence of 
numerous intermediate Paces Sleneets interbreeding among the many Povey nativ this locality 
Corethrogyne californica var. lyénii Blake, Journ. Wash. Acad, 33: iy prvi Paceniiel 1 with several 
more or teas erect, densely bg tomentose, ras beer arising from a stout er root; leaves obovate in outline, 
apiculate at apex, 3 long, 1 or more wide, crenate- coiveel toward po acute apex, densely white- 
tomentose; heads large, hemispheric the ahyllaricn glandular, differing from C. californica var. sr, herbaceous by 
the broadly linear, loose, herbaceous, outer phyllaries and ee middle and inner ones with broadly linear, 
tips; achenes as in C, cali Ifo ornica var. californica. Open rocky slopes, San Carlos Range, Merced and San Ben 
Counties, California. Type locality: Cathedral Peak, 3,000 feet altitude. 
3. Corethrogyne leucophylla (Lindl.) Jepson. Branching Beach-aster. 
Fig. 5577. 
Diplopappus rr ae Lindl. in DC. Prod. 5: 278 om" 
Corethrogyne californica 6 leucophylla Kuntze, ae Gene Bi 
Corethrogyne tease side Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Calif. 564. tes canal to Menzies). 
Pere = 7-30 cm. high with leafy, densely abelian i ascending to erect, some- 
times decumbent at wed irregularly branchi ing, 1 more or less suffrutescent below and clothed with 
efiheriae Pee. Leaves cm. long, 6-10 mm. wide, fccaee than Sy internodes, broadly spatu- 
laa narrowed to a petiolar base, thick, veiny belie the margin sharply dentate or serrate, per- 
ge ore thin : itary or 2 or 3 on 
i nearly sessile on the stems; 
involucre (in npc specimens) 11-15 mm. wide, 7-9 mm. high, essentially hemispheric ; phyllaries 
loosely 4-seriate, thinly cartilaginous re scarious below, the oe with a deciduous tomentum, 
mabe or less 08 ed above with green or purple-tinged, often mm. wide, the inner more 
narrow, glabrous or granu stats la ndu ia rays 7-8 mm. long, lavender or pret schehes about 
4 mm. long, cto te the pappus inet iets the achenes, brownish. 
Ocean cliffs — bl vtoee also sand dunes, Humid Transition Zone; site Santa Cruz County, ratoiy 
yest un Montere +o ounty and probably farther south. Type locality: Monterey, California. Dec. 
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specimen of C. leucophylla was one of the few plants in ewes available for collecting in December, 
the Per be the ships of Vancouver's s voyage were anchored at Monterey (see transcript of Menzies’ Journal). 
The seasonal changes of this coastal f 
4. ee a (H. M. Hall) Ferris. Del Mar Sand-aster. Fig. 5578. 
Corethrogyne filaginifolia var. linifolia H. M. Hall, Rae Cole Pub. Bot. 3: 71. 1907. 
Corethrogyne tadche Ferris, “ene Dudley Herb. 
Plants 4-5.5 dm. high, stems erect, rat sae Rom above and csp apd braseaseey, Conse’? 
ve m. long. 
y more sparsely so a , floccose throughout. Leave ; 
wide, sessile, much reduced ve and becoming bracteate on the eer g branches, linear, entire, 
loosely 2 e to floccose; heads several, large, terminating lender branches ; lucre 
mm. 11 mm. broad (in pressed specimens), hemispheric to br dly turbinate; phyl- 
laries imi, closely imbricate, obtuse-angled at apex, rather thin-cartilaginous, the ex 
tip perman a —_ tomentose, concealing the sometimes granular- glandular surface; © 
20-25, violet, 6-8 mm. long; achenes about 4 mm. tee sparsely silky-villous, hiatter than the 
brownish pappus. 
slopes above the ocean, Upper Sonoran Zone; oe restricted to the coast of northern San Diego 
County, California. Type locality: near Del Pr pag Collected by K. Brandegee. June—Sept. 
