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Lagophylla' ramosissima, Nutt. Stems 3 12' high, at first softly 
pubescent or villous, as are the leaves and involucre, at length smooth and 
much-branched ; primary leaves oblong-spatulate, the lowest ones opposite, 
petioled, denticulate, caducous, the upper ones alternate and sessile, later 
ones linear-oblong and passing into bracts appressed to the involucre ; invol- 
ucre 5-leaved, the scales flat on the back, the edges infolded and meeting, 
completely enclosing the fertile achenia ; rays very short, cuneate, 3-cleft ; 
receptacle with 5 subfoliaceous scales surrounding the 5-G perfect but 
infertile disk-flowers ; achenia smooth; pappus none. — Oregon and California. 
FootliilLs of the AVest Humboldt Mountains and Havallah Range, Nevada ; 
5-5,500 feet elevation ; June-September. (624.) 
Madaria- elegans, DC. Everywhere hispid, many of the hairs gland- 
ulifei-oiis; stem 1-3° high, branching; leaves 1-3' long, 2-3" wide, closely 
sessile. Yar. corymbosa has the leaves hispid but glandless.— Both forms 
are common in Oregon and California, and were also collected near Carson 
City, Nevada, hy Dr. Anderson. 
MxmA^ RACEMOSA, T. & G. Stems strict, 6-2° high, afterward 
l)rancli('d al)<>vc, hirsute, as are the oblong-linear leaves; the branchlets, 
uppermost leaves and the involucres glandular also ; heads racemose on the 
branches ; ray-achenia flat, those of the disk somewhat angled on the sides.— 
Leaves 1-3' long, 2-4" wide. AVashington Territory to California ; Virginia 
City, (Bloomer.) From Western Nevada to the East Humboldt Mountains; 
5-7,000 feet elevation ; June-September. (625.) 
' LAGOni VLT.A, Xr i i . Gemia very near to Hemizonia, aiul distinguished from it only by the less 
1 U i \ , " °" '"^^ ""^^'^ ^ distinction ^hid. will scarcely he con 
M ' \ T «f tl^*^ ^-<^^y Mountains, 
tl... invoM 1 r ^^V; mys 10-20, pistinate, fertile, ligules 2-3 times as longas 
- u H V "^'t'^^'r ^^-^^--^^ tuhular.funnel-shaped, 
I u u. .ul,-, <,l.ose, the scales as n.any us the rays, incurved, conduplicate, and enclosing 
"ttlH .a>>. l-'"«ln-ot the style in tluMlKsk^lWrswith lanceolate hispid apnenda-^^^ Aehenin 
i;:;;;::^c'Ht'^ '-''V''''-' ^^^^ edge,hroader^o tX ^ 
^Vu I ^ 'l'">nua, etc., everywhere hairy and often furnished with minute stalked 
al ^ ''"-''^ y^now, sometimes p^pi::^:^;:^ 
I V!.l!;>' ''""'^ ;"y:;1owerod ; rays 5-12, pistillate, fertile, the ligule slightly ex- 
