30.ladia Lolina. 
Slender weedy annuals with linear or linear-langeolate entire leaves, 
the lower oprosite, the upver alternate. Neads few,on slender peduncles or 
in small clusters, these anu the branches clandular with stalked glands. 
Ray flowers inconspicuous ,istillate, «-12, enclosed by the boot-shared bracts 
of tne involucre; disc-flowers solitary or several, subtended by a series of 
chaffy bracts. sacnenes more or less cormressed laterally, curving some ownat, 
at least those oi t1 _ aisc ee angled, those of the ray flowers com: letely 
enclosed by the bracts; papyrus none, at least in the ray flowers. 
OInconspicuous annuals 5-20 cm. tali, the bracts of the 
4 involucre S mn. tall / Li. exicua 
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0 srect slender annuals 50-60 cm. tall or more, the 
4 bracts of the involucre 6-5 mm. tall 
recilis 
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% Heads 4-5 mn. wide, mostl: solitary at the ends of 
@ branches, or <-o in racemes ; 2. 
y Heads <-4 um. wide, in clusters of ©-4 at the ends of 
(, branches 3, iue Slomera ta 
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‘lie exipua (Sm.) Greene. 7 omali inconspicuous annuals 
5-20 cm. tall, usually branched, the branches widely spreading, slender, 
hisvid in the lower parts,clandular above; leaves few, mostly opposite or 
the upper alternate, linear, 1-< cm. long, 1-2 mm. wide, hispid-hirsute; 
heads 36 mao in diameter, the bracts ov me long, strong ely glandular, 4-6 
in number, jenclosing atmost comeletely] the ray flowers, disc-flower solitary; 
achenes hardly Compressed, 2.5 ma. lone, narrowly Obovate, curving lishtly 
except that of the disc which is straicnt. 
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Common in dry gravelly soil at low elevations, 
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