Artemisia californica Less.

Crossostephium foliosum (Nutt.) Rydberg
? Artemisia Fisheriana vegelior Besser, Nouv. M6m. Soc. Nat. Mose. 3: 88. 1834. Artemisia foliosa Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. II. 7: 397. 1841.
A shrub 1-2 m. high; branches densely canescent; leaves 2-4 cm. long, densely cauescent, the upper filiform, less than 0.5 mm. broad, revolute, the lower 3-fid above the middle; heads numerous, in leafy raceme-like panicles; involucre hemispheric, about 3 mm. high, 4-5 mm. broad; bracts 12-15, the outer ones elliptic, canescent, scarcely scarious-raargined, the inner ones oval, less pubescent, and with broad scarious margins; ray-flowers 7-10; corollas cylindric, somewhat flattened, 3-4-lobed; disk-flowers 15-20; corollas cylindro-campanulate, 5-toothed, 1.5 mm. long; achenes 3-5-ribbed, becoming glutinous in wetting; pappus coroniform.
Type locality: Monterey, California. Distribution: California and adjacent islands.

Crossostephium californicum (Less.) Rydberg
Artemisia californica Less. Linnaea 6: 523. 1831.
Artemisia Pischeriana Besser, Nouv. M4m. Soc. Nat. Mose. 3: 21. 1834.
ArUmisia abrotanoides Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. II. 7: 399. 1841.
A shrub 1-3 ra. high; branches grayish-strigose; leaves 2-5 cm. long, fascicled, pinnately divided into filiform divisions or the upper entire and filiform, revolute, canescent, fleshy; beads numerous, nodding, in dense panicles with racemiform branches; peduncles 1-5 mm. long; involucre depressed-hemispheric, 3 cm. high, 5-6 mm. broad; bracts 15-20, in about 3 series, somewhat canescent, the outermost oblong, fleshy, somewhat shorter, the inner ones with thick backs and broad scarious margins, obovate or rounded-spatulate; rayflowers 8-10; corollas cylindric, short, regular, 4-loothed, glandular-granuliferous; diskflowers 15-20; corollas campanulate, 5-toothed, 2 mm. long; achenes 3-5-ribbed; pappus denUte.
Tvpp, f/JCALiTY: California.
Distribution: Central and southern California, along the coast.