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5. Brickellia incana A. Gray. Woolly Brickellia or Brickellbush. Fig. 5881. 
Brickellia incana A. Gray, Proc. Amer. os 7: 350. 1868. 
Coleosanthus incanus ae Rev, Gen. Pl. 1: 328. 1891. 
Much branched shrub, 3-6 dm. high, white- pes on Ae yes Fone ak ane young branches, 
the stem glabrate, white-barked. Leaves alternate, ovate, 1-2 cm. long, ac t os sessile, 
serrulate to entire, glabrate at length; heads mostly ie at tips one stem pe bra 2-2. 
cm. high, about 60- ‘ eee. Breck yee involucre 1.7-2.2 cm. high, the Siehees ie 
ovate to linear, obtuse to acuminate, ait ulate; corollas ago whitish or ochroleucous ; 
achenes densely a dls hispidu lou 
shes and canyon bottoms in the a ert, Sonoran Zones; midi pndag California, in the Death Valley 
south through oe. Mo} ave Danesh to Riverside County; also s vada and western Arizona. Type 
= nc ha eid Mountains, San Bernardino County, California Mas 
6. eee atractyloides A. Gray. Spear-leaved Brickellia. Fig. 5882. 
Brickell tyloides A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 8: 290. 1870. 
s Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 1: 328. 1891. 
Coleosanthus webilesak: Nels. Bot. Gaz. 37: 262. 1904. 
Low, leafy, branching shrubs with white- barked, rather stiff branches and flexuous es 
branchlets. Leaves a ternate, short-petioled or subsessile, the blades 1-2.5 cm. lon ng, ovate 
narrowly acute to acuminate at the spinescent apex, spinescent-toothed on the margin, écHaviinas 
i ] i icu ; heads a i 
bright green and gla , conspicuously reticulate d t 50 er several, solitary 
on the s of the —- ts, 13-16 ; peduncles naked, glabrate or finely glandular 
below the heads; the o r phyllaries broadly ovate- cies , resembling t eaves in texture, 
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loose, entire; the dite er "phyllines finder. acuminate, stramineous ; corolla white or yellowish; 
achenes hispidu lou 
Rocky hillsides ae slopes, sepa Upper Sonoran Zone; southern Nevada and Utah to eastern Inyo and 
San Bernartinn Counties, Californ and Yuma County, Arizona. Type locality: “Utah, near the Rio Colorado.” 
Collected by Palmer. March—Sep 
7. Brickellia eu Robinson. copes Spear-leaved Brickellia. Fig. 5883. 
Brickellia arguta Robinson, Mem. Gra — Herb. 1: 
17; 
mbar ‘atractyloides w we hells n, Man i i Cali, 1015. 1925, 
Blak a ieiticy Gants U.S. Nat. Herb. 23: 1483. 1926. 
Low, branchin pros closely resembling B. atractyloides in general appearance, densely 
spreading- bixtellous with mostly gland-tipped ie n the leaves, involucre, and young bra sche 
the stem glabrate, white-bar ae eaves alternate, tsa the blades ovate, 1-2 
a : Mh : : 
e veins om 
flowered, solitary at tips of branches, the naked e densely glandular- puberulen nt with 
spreading hairs; involucre 1-1.3 cm. high, the Gilteriioat” phyllaries usually rigid-herbaceous, 
more or less puberulent with spreading hairs ercenialy at the base, lanceolate to ovate, rather loose, 
entire or bist se with 1 <2 s mall teeth ; the inner phyllaries linear or lance-linear, acuminate ; corol- 
idu mr s. 
On desert slopes and washes, Lower Sonoran Zone; western ey a ox: Colorado Deserts, California, from 
the Death Valley fasion in Inyo Co ounty ebathe % northern Lower Californ Type locality: not stated. May—June. 
Intergrading for ms are to be found on the eastern limits of Gisteitution which show strongly the close rela- 
= ~ — S$ species with B. atractyloides 
Bri arguta var. odontélepis Taine (Mem. Gray Hes 917) differs from B. arguta var. 
arguta in 4 pen phyllarie petted are broad 7 conspicuously oi ek Valley tsb 8 ole ideaty, Cali- 
season Eoin: 2aar, 37 31). ‘ied southern Colorado Desert, Teter County, cing to the San Felipe Desert 
inn eastern Lower California. Type locality: gf ie Desert. Collected by Ore 
8. Brickellia grandiflora Nutt. Large-flowered Brickellia. F ig. 5884. 
Eupatorium? grandifiorum Hook. Fl. Bor. Amer. 2: 26. 1834. 
Brickellia grandiflora Nutt. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. II. 7: 287. 
dhgasian erent fons var. —— ris A. Gray, Proc. Amer. ia 7. er 1882. 
Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 1: 328 
a ueaakie practiipes Greene, Pita rs ma? 
Herbaceous perennial 2-7 dm. high, from long, eh maski. fusiform roots, the stem 
simple or branched, incurved- -puberu lous. Leaves chiefly alternate; petioles 1-7 cm. long; blades 
g 
scab 
flowered, nodding or erect, mbelliform clusters at tips stem and branches; involucre 
8-11 mm. high, the outer phsllaries with eennnty BA ee tips, the inner linear, 
acute; corollas whitish; achenes hispidulou: 
In canyons and o: n cliffs, Tra i Zon eon linha and er ce e Nebraska, Missouri, and Arkansas 
south to New Mesiba, Arizona, the Sierra Mevula we hp jouecegeed Ryo yp wer California. Ty Pompe 
“On the low hills between the north and south branches ms ,” northern Idaho. July 
9. Brickellia californica A. — California Brickellia or Brickellbush. 
Fig. 5885. 
Bulbostylis californica Torr. & Gray ae on 1841. 
Brickellia californica A. Gray, Mem. Amer. Acad. II. 4: 64. 1849. 
