470 COMPOSITAE 
n rocky or sandy soil, penton and Can eon: ag es; British Columbia southward, mostly in and east of the 
ascade Mountains, to Cali fornia where it oc he Siskiyou and Trinity Mountains of br gee n California 
and yee the Sierra Merais a the teouniarn 3 tere ee sea Siege differing from 40 cal form in 
its southern hae aoe east to Wyoming, Montana, and Colorado. Ty ype locality: votewaene Musonal Park, 
Wyoming. July—S. 
5. Gnaphalium benedlens Davidson. Fragrant Everlasting. Fig. 5821. 
Gnaphalium beneolens Davidson, Bull. S. Calif. Acad. 17: 17. pl. 1918. 
Rather stout ph nial 4.5-10 dm. high, persistently white-woolly throughout, sometimes 
greenish yellow, Leiba eee the stems few from a usually woody base and sirally branched. 
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lants of the lower western ices oe ie Roere Nevada are intermediate between this species i 
G. thermale, having the opaque phyllary-tips and larger heads of the former and the growth habit and shorter 
p Seapine of the latter. 
6. Gnaphalium bicolor Bioletti. Bioletti’s Cudweed. Fig. 5822. 
Gnaphalium bicolor Bioletti, Erythea 1: 16. 1893. 
Ascending or erect, stout perennial up to 1 m. high, lignescent below, corymbosely branched 
above, sweet-scented, very leafy, the stem va lower leaf-surface de nsely white-woolly. Leaves 
thin, lanceolate to oblanceolate, 38 cm, long, 5-13 mm. wide, acute, sessile by a rather broad, clasp- 
ing, not decurrent , bright green and glandular or ly gray-tomentose a ; inflorescence 
comparatively dens d short, rounded or flattish; heads usually glomerate at tips of branches, 
about 60-85-flowered, ab —6 ; spo epg tiie faintly tinged with straw color 
in ates sometimes with a pinkish t thin-s shini ovate through obovate to linear, 
obtuse or the inner often apiculate, ye rc ioe: Distillate yr seas 53-73, hermaphrodite 8-11; 
poe aie ish, 
Dry visas and foothills, Transition and Upper Sonoran Zones; Madera County to Tulare County on the 
walker bee of the Sierra Nevada and from San Benito and southern Santa Cruz being on“ to San Diego and 
a Bernardino Counties, California, the Santa Bareers Islands, and northern Low aor a; also reported 
m Pa: stow ise Cove, Marin County. Type locality: San Diego, California. April-June (Oct.) 
7. Gnaphalium leucocéphalum A. ory. Sonora Everlasting. Fig. 5823. 
Gnaphalium leucocephalum A. Gray, Smiths. Contr. 56: 99. 18 
Slender erect perennial (or sometimes bien rh often several-stemmed, 0.3-0.6 m. high, 
corymbosely branched en oe: f etiot ted, uty white-woolly on stem and lower le at aurtace 
u 3 cm. wide; hea about 
80-100-flowered, campanulate, mm. high, glom - fester at ereh of SO oe Ss slivilans ies white, 
rather thick 7 Bk el ovate through obovate to linea ar, obtuse or the inner apiculate ; pistillate 
flowers aphrodite 13-14; corollas yellowish. 
Sandy c aes ns —— See Angeles County, ae ei to southern Arizona, western Texas, and 
Sonora; not aneien from New Mexico. Type ideakity, near Santa Cruz, Sonora. July—Sept. 
8. Gnaphalium califérnicum DC. California Cudweed or Green Everlasting. 
Fig. 5824. 
Gnaphalium californicum DC. Prod. 6: 7. 
Gnaphalium d gor cate Fs Bot. Calif. 1: 341. 1876. ™ , 
rect, rather stout biennial often flowering the first year, 3.dm. high, corymbosely br sani 
Wit glandular eels. essentially throughout and often thi nly" gray- sae sweet-scented. Leav 
thin, oblanceolate or the lower obovate to oblanceolate or linear-oblong, or the uppermost a 
radually ced above, 3.5-10 cm. long, 0.5-2.3 cm. wide, obtuse to acuminate, sessile and 
shortly but broadly d ent, green and glandular on both sides, sometimes thinly gray-lanate; 
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ered at tips of branches, comparatively large, about 115-50-flowered, subglobose, abou mm. 
high: phyllaries pen sy white fd in age straw-colored, rarely pinkish, at so somewhat papery, 
rather thin g in ag vate to obovate and inn ear, obtuse 
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or the innermost acl glandala ar yt aos pistillate wee about 106-37, “Gegaahiodie 7-11; 
corollas yellowish; pappus-bristles distinct fa lling Hea! tely. 
py hills and canyons, Humid Transition pee Upper Son peice Lincoln County, Oregon, south in the 
Coast + Heme ie to _ noe, Ae County, California, and the. Cheon ahests and adjacent Lower California; also in 
the Sierr uolumne County to southern Fresno County. Type locality: California. May-July. 
