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ular to broadly ovate, 3 to 10 lines broad, greenish, reddish, or 

 yellowish, white tomentose below; margin undulate, at least in age; 

 the petioles as long or longer; involucres very narrow, 1 line long; 

 flowers rather few, rose-color, or yellowish, 1 lino long; outer sepals 

 obovate, inner oblong. 



Common in the Coast Ranges, especiallv towards the interior. 

 Sept. 



Var. caninum Greene (E. Nortoni Greene as to plant of Bay 

 Region). Stems numerous from the base, repeatedly di- or at first 

 tri-chotomous, procumbent or very diffuse, sometimes erect and 

 branching only above the base; inflorescence and stems reddish; 

 involucres mostly at the ends of the short branches or sessile in the 

 forks. — Oakland Hills; Tiburon. July-Oct. 



10. E. virgatum Benth. Tomentose throughout, stem slender, 

 erect, simple, or the few branches strict, 1 to 2 ft. high; leaves 

 rosulate at the base, oblanceolate, an inch or two long, on slender 

 petioles, the margin usually undulate; involucres rather remote, 

 tomentose, cylindric, 2 lines long; bracts lanceolate, shorter than the 

 involucres; flowers 1 line long, buff or sulphur-yellow. 



Stream beds of Coast Range rivers and creeks: Putah Creek; 

 Kelseyville, Lake Co.; Russian River near Cloverdale; Walnut 

 Creek; also in the Sierras. Aug. -Sept. 



11. E. dasyanthemum T. & G. Plants clothed with a thin coat 

 of tomentum which is soon deciduous, 1 to 2 ft. high, more or less 

 umbellately branching from or near the base, and often very bushy in 

 habit; leaves roundish, plane, tomentose below, less so above, $ to 1$ 

 in. long, abruptly contracted to a slender petiole as long or half as 

 long; involucres rather remote, cylindric, 2 lines long, tomentose 

 between the callous ribs; flowers few, scarcely exserted, white or 

 rose-color, densely villous on the outside 



North Coast Range country towards the interior; Vaca Mountains 

 to Clear Lake, where first collected by Bolander and later by Torrey. 

 Sept. 



Var. Jepsonii Greene. Lower branches in whorls of 3 to 5; lower 

 leaves 2 in. long; panicle ample; flowers deep red. — Gates' Canon, 

 Vaca Mountains. 



12. E. angulosum Benth. Gray tomentose or nearly green, 3 to 

 14 in. high, diffusely branching from near the base, and repeatedly 

 dichotomous, the plants frequently broader than high; branches 4 to 

 6-angled; radical leaves roundish to broadly oblong or lanceolate, 

 commonly undulate, £ to 1 in. long, on rather short petioles; upper 

 leaves oblong to lanceolate or oblanceolate, sessile or nearly so; invo- 

 lucres on filiform pedicels 3 to 8 lines long, mostly in the forks or 

 terminal, hemispherical, 1 to 2 lines broad, many-flowered, glabrous 

 or minutely glandular, bractlets mostly firm and dilated; calyx seg- 

 ments pink with a red-purple midvein running nearly to the apex. 

 \ line long, nearly glabrous; outer segments ovate, concave, the 

 inner oblong-lanceolate. 



Common in Southern California and in the Upper San Joaquin 



