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Receptacle subulate to high-conical. Style tips from trun- 

 cate-capitate, with or without a central apiculation, to 

 ovate and sometimes with a cuspidate appendage. Akenes 

 clavate-linear to linear-cuneate. Pappus a few palae or 

 paleaceous awns, or both, often wanting. 



§ 3. Ptilomeris (kenbaar aan :) receptacle not muricate- 

 roughened, rather scrobiculate : (Afd. 2). Rays 10 to 15, 

 elongated-oblong, exserted: involucral bracts oblong-lan- 

 ceolate ; receptacle acutely conical, minutely and sparsely 

 pubescent ; plants minutely glandular-pubescent, diffusely 

 branched, a span to near a foot high, perhaps all varieties 

 of one, the difference being mainly in the pappus. 



B» coronaria Gray: Pappus of 8 to 12 lanceolate or 

 oblong denticulate paleae, all tapering into awns, Uttle 

 shorter than the disk-corollas. or some in the ray awnless ; 

 rays nearly half-inch long. (Ptilomeris coronaria en P. 

 aristata Nutt. in Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. VII 382). 



California, Nutt all. Not since collected, but common 

 in cultivation, especially in France. 



Februari 1924. 



