328 COMPOSITE. Baeria. 



B. antliemoid.6S, GRAY, 1. c. More glandular, and with somewhat more filiform divisions 

 to the leaves : jiappus wanting. Pti/omeris (Ptilopsis) anthemoides, Nutt. I.e. Hi/menoxys 

 calva, Torr. & Gray, Fl. 1. c. Actinolepis (Pti/omeris) anthemoides, Gray, Bot. Calif. 1. c. 

 San Diego, California, Nnttall, and near Julian City, Bolander. 



B. mutica, GRAY, 1. c. Like the preceding, probably the pappose state of it : pappus of 6 to 

 8 quadrate-oblong paleas, the obtuse or truncate summit erose. Pti/omeris mutica, Nutt. I.e. 

 Hymenoxiis mutica, Torr. & Gray, 1. c. Actinolepis (Ptilomeris) mutica, Gray, Bot. Calif. 1. c. 

 Sail Diego, California, Nuttall, Cleveland. 



142. SYNTRICHOPAPPUS, Gray. (SiJy, 0p, WTTTTOS, bristles of 

 pappus united.) Low and small California!! and Arizonian winter annuals, 

 floccose-woolly, mostly alternate-leaved, branched from the base ; with short- 

 peduncled heads terminating the branches ; flowers all yellow or rays sometimes 

 rose-red. Pacif. E. Rep. iv. 106, t. 15, Bot. Calif, i. 394, & Proc. Am. Acad. 

 xix. 20. 



S. Fremonti, GRAY, 1. c. About a span high, loosely floccose : leaves spatulate or linear- 

 cuneate, often 3-lobed at summit : involucre 3 lines high, of about 5 broadly oblong bracts : 

 rays 5, rather large : flowers all golden yellow : pappus bright white. Desert plains, S. E. 

 California, adjacent Nevada, S. Utah, and Arizona; first coll. by Fremont. 



S. Lemmoni, GRAY. Smaller, slender, lightly woolly, glabrate in age: leaves spatulate or 

 linear, entire : involucre of 6 to 8 narrowly oblong bracts : rays small, rose-purple and white 

 or white-edged ; disk-corollas pale yellow : pappus none. Proc. Am. Acad. xix. 20. A<-ti- 

 nolepis Lemmoni, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xvi. 102. S. E. California, on the Mohave Desert, 

 Lr.mmon. Summit of Cajon Pass, Parish. 



143. ERIOPHYLLUM, Lag. ("Eptor, wool, <f>vXXov, foliage, the plants 

 woolly.) Mostly floccose herbs, rarely suffruticose (of W. N. America and 

 probably in northern parts of Mexico) ; with alternate or partly opposite leaves, 

 and peduncled or sometimes sessile heads ; the flowers wholly yellow, or one or 

 two with rose-purple rays, one rayless. --Nov. Gen. & Spec. 28; Dougl. in Bot. 

 Reg. t. 11G7; Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xix. 24. Eriophyllum & Phialis, Spreng. 

 Gen. 631. Tnchophyllum, Nutt. Gen. ii. 166; Hook. Fl. i. 315. Bahia, DC. 

 Prodr. v. 656, in part; Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 374, partly, not Lag. Actinolepis, 

 DC. Prodr. v. 655. 



1. ACTINOLEPIS. Low and diffuse winter-annuals, with short-peduncled or 

 sessile heads only 2 or 3 lines high : involucral bracts few, distinct to the base, 

 herbaceous or chartaceous in age : anther-tips from ovate-lanceolate to linear- 

 subulate. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xix. 24. Actinolepis, DC., Bentli. & Hook. 

 Gen. ii. 399 ; Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. ix. 198, & Bot. Calif, i. 377, excl. Ptilo- 

 meris. 



* Heads sessile or nearly so in the forks, or at summit of branches, then subtended by a leaf or 

 glomerate, 2 lines lii^ r h, wholly yellow-flowered: receptacle flat or barely convex: anther-tips 

 ovate-lanceolate, obtuse : leaves small, spatulate, commonlv .3-lobed or 3-tootlicd at summit. 

 Actinolepis, DC. 1. c., founded on specimens with infertile disk-flowers. 



E. multicaule, GRAY, 1. c. Whitened with rather close cottony wool, sometimes denudate 

 in age : stems slender, at length much branched, a span high, most of the internodes exceeding 

 the leaves: rays 3 to 5, obovate, a line long: akenes glabrate: pappus of 10 to 15 rather 

 firm narrowly subulate or almost aristiform paleae, or sometimes wanting in all or some of 

 the disk-flowers, especially when these are infertile ; then their style is only minutely forked 

 at the apex. Aclinolcpis multicaulis, DC. Prodr. v. 656 ; Hook. Ic. t. 325 ; Torr. Bot. Mex. 

 Bound, t. 33. Southern California to Arizona, from Santa Barbara to Tucson, in low 

 ground ; first coll. by Coulter and Douglas. 



