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linear lobes, often with a brown-purple spot at base, disk flowers 

 yellow, with purple anthers. Bubbs Creek, Converse Basin. 



Layia glandulosa H. & A. Annual, with erect stems simple 

 below, branched at the inflorescence, often purplish, hairy and 

 clothed with hairs tipped with black glands. Lower leaves piu- 

 nately-lobed, linear in outline, the lobes short and blunt ; upper 

 leaves inclined to be entire. Heads from i to almost 2 inches in 

 diameter ; rays white, 3-lobed at apex ; pappus consisting of 

 some chafi"y scales and some soft, abundant white pappus which 

 becomes interlaced. This was collected on dry hills along Bubbs 

 Creek. It was almost past blooming in early July. 



Layia elegans T. & Q. This is similar to the preceding but 

 is more difi"usely branched, the heads are smaller and the rays 

 entirely yellow. Bubbs Creek, on dry hills. 



Harpaecarpus parvulus Greene. Annual, low, a few inches 

 high, branching diff"usely with numerous very slender stems, 

 glandular and white-hairy throughout, the glands on the flowers 

 black. Leaves linear, less than an inch long, % in. wide. 

 Heads minute with but few flowers, ^ in. high ; the bracts of the 

 involucre form ribs and contain the only seeds. Converse Basin, 

 Millwood. 



Chaenactis glabriuscula DC. Annual, with stem generally 

 simple, with 1-3 heads terminating long, almost naked peduncles, 

 smooth except for some minute cottony wool. Leaves once or 

 rarely twice divided with linear lobes as wide as the axis. Bracts 

 of the involucre narrowh- oblong forming a bell-shaped involucre ; 

 heads % in. high ; outer flowers with broadly expanded corolla 

 limb appearing like ray-flowers, % in. long, yellow. Bearskin 

 Meadow. 



Chaenactis Douglasii H. & A. Perennial, branching, i-iyi 

 ft. high, more or less clothed with cottony wool, often reddish. 

 Leaves once or twice pinnately divided with short, blunt lobes. 

 Heads panicled, almost ^ in. high, on peduncles 1-2 in, long. 

 Flowers white, the outer ones with limb not expanded ; pappus 

 silvery white, akenes black. Bracts of the involucre and ped- 

 uncles glandular, Bubbs Creek, 



Antennaria alpina Qaertn. Low and forming mats, densely 

 clothed with white, cottony wool. Flowering stems 2-3 in. high 

 from amidst a bunch of short, leafy, non-flowering stems. Leaves 

 spatulate, ^ in, long, yi in. wide, tapering at base ; leaves on 

 flowering stems narrower, lanceolate, pointed. Heads sessile 

 and forming a globular head X~/^ i°- across ; bracts of the invo- 



