SUNFLOWER FAMILY 503 
Brickelli htit A. Gray, Smiths. Contr. i" 72::.1853. 
Coleosanthus pc ace See fet Rev. Gen. Pl. 1: 328. gate 
Coleosanthus albicaulis Rydb. Bull. Torrey ‘Clab 31: 646. 190 
Brickellia californica var.? jepsonii Robinson, Mem. Gray 4. 227k 2917. 
Branching shrub 5-10 dm. high, the stem tomentellous to scabrid-puberulous, whitish ac hoeoag 
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Leaves chiefly alternate; petioles 5-20 mm. long; blades usually deltoid-ova eri —5 cm. long, 
obtuse or acute, truncate to subcordate at base, coarsely crenate or crenate-serrate, firm, cr eer 
puberulous, gland-dotted beneath, reticulate; he -10 mm. high, 8- ¥ flowered poets clus- 
tered in axillary and terminal cymules, forming leafy thyrses ; involucre a the 
phyllaries dry, obtuse to acutish, ovate to linear; corollas aenroleuccie posal a corelisir: 
achenes hispidulous. 
Dry and streambeds, Sonoran Zones; poeernine baton? Creat southward to Lower California and 
éaatened tee aa desert ranges to Colorado and New adjacent Texas, and Chihuahua. Type locality: 
California. July—Oct. 
5881. Brickellia incana 5883. Brickellia arguta 
5882. Brickellia atractyloides 5884. Brickellia grandiflora 
