392 COMPOSITE. 



26. E. inulticeps, Greene, Pittouia, ii. 167 (1891). Perennial, the 

 thick tap-root bearing a stout multicipital densely leafy caudex: herbage 

 cinereous with a fine appressed pubescence: lowest leaves obovate to 

 oblauceolate, 1—2 in. long, the cauline nearly linear: slender ascending 

 stems 6 — 10 in. long, loosely corymbose: involucre hirsutulous: rays 

 about 75, purplish: pappus of 5—8 bristles and rather more numerous 

 subulate squamellse. — -MountaiGS of Kern Co , Palmer Sc WrigJU. 



* * * * 2'aW, green, simple and leafy-stemmed biennial ; pappus a crown 



of distinct or partly united squamellx, with few or no 



bristles. — Genus Phalacroloma,- Cassini. 



27. E. stri^osus, Muhl. in Willd. Sp. iii. 1956 (1803). Roughish with 

 a short appressed rather scanty pubescence; stem 2—4 ft. high: lowest 

 leaves spatulate and sometimes toothed, the rest lanceolate, entire: 

 heads small, loosely corymbed at summit of the stem: rays short, white: 

 slender bristles of the pappus wanting in the ray-flowers, and very decid- 

 uous iu those of the disk. — Plumas Co., Lemmon, thetice northward; 

 also in the Atlantic States. 



***** Stems equably leafy up to tlie subcorymbose or monocephalotis 



summit: leaves n.arroiv, entire; brads of the involucre 



mostly in several series and imbricated. 



-1— Rays usually numerous and narrow. 



28. E. foliosiis, Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. vii. 309 (1840). Sca- 

 brous, more or less strigose-pubescent, 1 — 2^3' ft. high: leaves narrowly 

 oblauceolate, 1 — 2 in. long, those of the branches reduced: hemisplierical 

 heads J^ in. broad; rays about 30; achenes with a few coarse bristly 

 short hairs. Dry hills from Sonoma and Contra Costa counties south- 

 ward. June— Sept. 



29. E. tennissimus, Greene, Pittonia, iii. 25 (1898). Very slender, 2 

 ft. high or more, nearly glabrous: leaves filiform, 1 — 2 in. long: flowering 

 branches at summit of stem somewhat racemosely disposed, divaricate 

 or even slightly deflexed, each with 1 or 2 small heads; bracts of the 

 broadly campanulate involucre in 2 or 3 series, not very unequal, the 

 outer ones strigose-pube.scent: rays 30 or more, bluish: achenes oV:)long- 

 linear, nearly glabrous. — Hills of Ventura Co. 



30. E. Bloclimaiise, Greene, 1. c. Stout, 1-2 ft. high; the stem 

 striate and, with the spatulate-Iinear leaves, canescently hispidulous; th« 

 largest leaves 2 in. long or more, each with a short leafy branchlet in 

 its axil : terminal corymb of 12—20 rather short-peduncled heads, these 

 % in. high; bracts of the involucre subulate-linear, unequal, in about 3 



