COMPOSITE. 429 



3. B. carnosns, Greene, 1. c.;Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. vii. 393 

 (1841), under Madaroglossa. Dwarf, depressed, branched from the base, 

 pubescent; leaves succulent, 1 in. long, linear-oblong or spatulate, en- 

 tire, or the lowest sinuate-pinnatifid: heads small: rays white, reduced 

 and inconspicuous: pappus-bristles sparsely plumose with straight 

 villous hairs. — Sands of the sea beaches from Marin Co. to Monterey. 

 April— June. 



4. B. Iiieracioides, Greene, 1. c ; DC. Prodr. v. 694 (1836), under 

 Madarucjiossa. Erect, rather strict, 2—3 ft. high, stoiitish, hispid: leaves 

 linear to oblong, laciuiate-dentate: rays yellow, short, little exceeding 

 the disk: hairs of the pappus all straight and erect. Var. anoiuahi, 

 Bioletti. Involucral bracts open-boat shaped, hardly enfolding the 

 acheues, and persistent on the receptacle after the falling of the fruit. — 

 A coarse weedy species of wooded or bushy hills, in half shady places. 

 May— July. 



5. B. ^aillanlioides, Greene, 1. c; H. & A. Bot. Beech. 148 (1840), 

 nnder Trida.r. Freely branching below, 1 ft. high or more, hispid: 

 leaves commonly laciuiate-pinnatifid: rays orange-yellow, %—% in. long: 

 pappus dull-white or sordid, the bristles about twice as long as their 

 copious straight villous basal hairs. — Western sections of the State, from 

 Mendocino Co. southward. 



6. B. nemorosns, Greene, Man. 200 (1894). Kather slender, spar- 

 ingly branched above, 1—2 ft. high, hispiduloua: foliage and heads 

 much as in the preceding, but rays pale yellow below the middle, white 

 above it: pappus short, the bristles often scarcely surpassing their 

 copious brownish villous hairs. — A beautiful species of shaded slopes on 

 Mt. Tamalpias, Mt. Diablo, and the Berkeley Hills. May, June. 



-1— H— Villous hairs of pappus bristles more or less interlaced. 



7. B. srlanilulosus. Hook. Fl. i. 316 (1833); H. & A. Bot. Beech. 358 

 (1841), under Lai/ia. Seldom more than 6 in. high, branched from the 

 base, rough with short hispid hairs: lowest leaves sparingly pinnatifid, 

 upper linear, entire: heads of middle size; rays 8—13 rather ample and 

 showy, white: disk-achenes appressed silky-villous; pappus bright white, 

 the copious villous wool much shorter than the stout bristles, the inner 

 portion crisped and interlaced. —Dry open ground along the eastern base 

 of the Sierra; more common far to the eastward of California. Apr. — 

 June. 



8. B. hispidus, Greene, Pittouia, ii. 246 (1892), and 1. c. 20 (1889), 



