Franseria lancifolia

Franseria lancifolia Rydberg, sp. nov
A shrubby perennial; twigs tomentulose when young, becoming purple and at last grayish; leaves simple, petioled, finely tomentulose on both sides, becoming greener above; blades lanceolate or ovate, crenate, 2-3 cm. long, acute; heads in terminal racemes, the stamina te above, many; involucre broadly turbinate, tomentulose, 6 mm. broad, crenate; paleae of the receptacle oblanceolate or spatulate, villous; anthers with acute tips; pistillate heads below on the raceme, clustered, 2-3-flowered; fruit 7 mm. long, globose, sparingly hairy and glandular-granuliferous; spines all subulate or the lower narrowly lanceolate, slightly curved at the apex; beaks 2 or 3. subulate.
Type collected on Cedros Island, Lower California, 1897, A. W. Anthony 290 (U. S. Nat. Herb, no. 313846.).
Distribution: Lower California.