
          You will know it by its looking 
 like Rudbeckia radula (apetala) only 
 hoary all over, especially the [involuae?],
 which is something like Helianthus.
 See if there is any note or number
 to show where it came from.
 For there is a good [added: single] specimen in
 the Coulter Herb. [Herbarium]. It is a fine genus, 
 allied to Helianthella, but more to 
 Encelia, and having curious points of 
 analogy in the achenia & pappus
 with Agarista. Hence I name 
 it Geraea (an aged matron) in 
 allusion to its hoary head & silvery 
 looks of the fruit, as a counterpart to 
 Agarista, [crossed out: which] who says DeCandolle [De Candolle]
 was "nympha venustissima."


 I have an allied Texan [helianthoid?]
 genus, which differs from Encelia
 in having an achenium destitute 
 of the Covering of long hairs, and from
 Leighia in [crossed out: having] being destitute of all

        