Eriophyllum brachylepis

Eriophyllum brachylepis Rydberg, sp. now
A perennial, with a short decumbent woody base; stems about 2 dm. high, -white-tomentose, slender; leaves narrowly linear-oblanceolate, 1-2 cm. long, acute, entire, densely whitetomentose on both sides; heads solitary; peduncles 3-10 cm. long; involucre hemispheric, white-tomentose, about 7 mm. high and 10 mm. broad; bracts about 10; ray-flowers about as many; ligules 6 mm. long, 2.5 mm. wide; disk-corollas about 3 mm. long, the densely glandular tube shorter than the slightly glandular throat; achenes 2.5 mm. long, glabrous or nearly so, angled and striate; squamellae oblong, the larger about 0.3 mm. long.
Tvpe collected in Bear Valley, San Bernardino Mountains, California, 1894, Parish 3344 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.).