320 COMPOSITE. Lapliamia. 



L. Linclheimeri, GRAY. Stems a foot or less high from a thick woody base : leaves thin- 

 ner, oblong or ovate, glabrous, few-toothed or some entire, contracted at base into a short 

 petiole : heads loosely cymose : rays 3 to 6, very short, sometimes none : pappus a single 

 slender bristle equalling the proper tube of the corolla. PL Wright, i. 101. Rocky banks 

 of the Guadalupe, near New Brauufels, Texas, Lindheimer. 



* * * Involucre 3D-50-flowerecl, of numerous carinate-concave bracts, somewhat puberulent or 

 glandular on the back: herbage minutely puberulent: leaves thickish. 



-I Flowers said to be white : leaves mostly opposite, numerous up to the heads, dentate. 

 L. Palmeri, GRAY. Scabrous-puberulent : leaves broadly ovate or deltoid-rotund, rigid, 

 coarselv 5-7-deutate or laciniate-lobed, half-inch long, veiny, abruptly short-petioled : heads 

 somewhat crowded on the fastigiate flowering branches, little surpassing the upper leaves: 

 involucre campauulate, about 35-flowered ; its bracts linear, somewhat pubescent : rays none : 

 pappus a bristle of the length of the akene and a little shorter than the corolla. Proc. Am. 

 Acad. xiii. 372. Canons at Beaver-dam, X. W. Arizona, pendulous from rock-crevices, 

 Palmer, who notes that the flowers are " creamy white." 



H -i Flowers yellow: leaves small, 2 to 4 lines long, mostly orbicular, more entire, the upper 

 alternate, scattered: heads solitary and naked, terminating the loose branchlets, nearly hemi- 

 spherical. 



L. megacepkala, WATSON. Base of stem and lower leaves unknown ; those of flowering 

 branches all very small, alternate, short-petioled : involucre about 50-flowered ; its bracts 

 lanceolate-linear, minutely glandular: rays none: pappus none. Am. Nat. vii. 301. 

 S. Nevada, Wheeler. 



L. Stansburii, GRAY. Stems slender and lax from a woody base : lower leaves opposite 

 and on petioles of their own length ; upper alternate, also slender-petioled : involucre 35-40- 

 flowered, its bracts fewer and broader, lanceolate-oblong, nearly glabrous: rays 6 to 10, con- 

 spicuous, oblong: pappus a bristle somewhat shorter than the disk-corolla. PI. Wright. 

 i. 101 ; Eaton in Bot. King Exp. 164. Monothrix Stansburii, Torr. in Stansb. Rep. 389, 

 t. 7. Rocks on Stausbury Island, &c., Salt Lake, Utah; first coll. by Stansburij. 



3. DITIIRIX. Pappus a pair of stouter naked bristles, one from each angle 

 of the akeue : head only G-8-nowered. 



L. bisetosa, TORR. Hispidulous-puberulent, minutely resinous-atomiferous and punctate: 

 stems 1 to 3 inches high from the woody base : leaves mostly alternate, coriaceous, spatulate- 

 ovate, obscurely few-toothed (quarter-inch long including the petiole) : heads solitary and 

 sessile : rays none : involucre (3 lines long) with bracts broadly linear, slightly pubescent, 

 carinate-concave at base: flowers proportionally large: corolla (whitish or pale yellow?) 

 with glandular tube one-third the length of the campanulate cyliudraceous throat : akenes 

 hispidulous-puberuleut, the narrow marginal nerves naked : rigid awns rather shorter than 

 the akene, more than half the length of the corolla. Gray, PI. Wright, ii. 100. On the 

 Rio Grande, Texas, in a canon below Presidio del Norte, Parry. 



135. PERlTYLE, Benth. (Ile/n, around; TV\TJ, a callus; the akenes 

 callous-margined.) Californian and Mexican herbs, the genuine species mostly 

 annuals ; with petiolate dentate or palmately-lobed leaves, lower opposite, upper 

 alternate, and small or middle-sized pedunculate heads terminating the branches : 

 disk-flowers yellow (or sometimes white?) : rays when present yellow or white. 

 Bot. Sulph. 23 & 119, t. 15 ; Gray, PI. Fendl. 77, Proc. Am. Acad. ix. 194, & 

 Bot. Calif, i. 39G. 



P. INCAXA, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xi. 78, from Guadalupe Island, off Lower California, is 

 an outlying anomalous species : all the others are as follows. 



1. Crown of the pappus an entire or undulate firm and shallow border : 

 akene hardly ciliate : suffruticulose : transition to Laphamia. 



P. dissecta, GRAY. Dwarf, 3 or 4 inches high from the woody base, cinereous-pubescent, 

 very leafy : leaves with blade (quarter-inch long) equalled by the petiole, round-cordate in 



