358 COMPOSITE. 



* Heads small, numerous, paniculaiely disposed. 



1. C. Califoriiiciis, O. Kize. Kev. Geo. i. 328 (1891); T. & G. Fl. 

 ii. 79 (184])imder Bulbostylis. Shrubby at base, 2 — 3 ft. high, panicu- 

 lately branching: leaves alternate, broadly ovate or triangular, irregu- 

 larly crenate-toothed, about 1 in. long, 3-ribbed and roughish, and, 

 with the whole plant, somewhat glandular-puberulent, heads spicate or 

 racemose along the leafy branches, mostly nodding, }£ in. long, 10 — 15- 

 flowered: scales of involucre with mostly obtuse straight tips. — Usually 

 along stream banks, in gravelly places, and chiefly in the inner Coast 

 Ranges. Sept. — Dec. 



2. C. iniiltiflonis, O. Ktze. 1. c; Kell. Proc. Calif. Acad. vii. 49 

 (1876), under BrickelUa. Habit of the preceding, but more compactly 

 branching, and more profusely flowering: leaves 2 in. long, ovate-lanceo- 

 late, entire, strongly 3- nerved, glabrous and glutinous: very numerous 

 heads }^ inch long, 3 — Sflowered: achenes sparsely hairy. — On rocks, in 

 King's River Canon ; collected by Dr- Kellogg, in 1866. 



3. C. loiigifolius, O. Ktze. 1. c; Wats. Am. Nat. viii. 301 (1873), 

 under BrickelUa. More woody than the preceding, also more slender 

 and loosely branching, with fewer heads: leaves 2 — 5 in. long, lanceolate- 

 linear, entire, or the larger somewhat sinuate-toothed, 3 nerved, slightly 

 scabrous, the margins more decidedly so: heads in terminal clusters on 

 the branchlets, 3 lines long, 3— 5-flowered: bracts of involucre obtuse, 

 conspicuously striate: achenes minutely hairy on the angles. — Near 

 Owen's Lake, and elsewhere in Inyo Co., Coiille. 



* * Heads feiv, larger, solitary at the ends of branchlets, or 

 somewhat corymbose. 



4. C. linifolius, O. Ktze. 1. c; Eaton, Bot. King Exp. 137 (1871), 

 under BrickelUa. Glandular-puberulent ; stems many, 12 — 16 in. high, 

 from a woody base, corymbose at summit: leaves sessile, elliptic-lanceo- 

 late, entire, 1 in. long: heads large, solitary, on elongated leafy-bracted 

 peduncles, 40 — 50-flowered: achenes with a double row of minute bristles 

 along the striate: pappus almost plumose. — Inyo Co., Corille. 



5. C. Greenei, O. Ktze. 1. c; Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xii. 58 (1876), 

 under BrickelUa. Scarcely a foot high, very viscid: leaves ovate, obtuse, 

 somewhat sei-rate, sessile or short-petioled: heads terminal, j'4 in. high, 

 on short leafy peduncles, and leafy-bracted under the involucre, the 

 proper bracts of which are lanceolate or linear, acuminate and glabrous • 

 acheoes with a few short bristles on the ribs, and some hirtelloi;s hairs 

 at summit. - High mountains from Tehama Co., northward. 



6 C. microphjllus, O. Ktze. 1. c; Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. vii- 

 286 (1840), under Bulbostylis. Glandular-pubescent and viscid, 1—2 ft. 



