COM POSIT. E. 441 



Bot. King. Exp. 174, t. 18 (1871), uuder Bnrrielia; Gray. Bot. Cal. i. 379 

 (1876), under Actinolepis. Dwarf, nearly stemless, loosely very woolly; 

 the small heads nearly sessile in the midst of a rosulate tuft of spatulate 

 entire leaves: bracts of the involucre 8, narrowly oblong; rays short, 

 scarcely exserted: achenes linear-oblong, black and shining, the margins 

 ciliate with snow-white soft hairs; pappus paleie 2, opaque, broad, sub- 

 truncate, e rose-dentate, produced in the middle into a subulate awn. — 

 Eastern slope of the middle Sierra Nevada. 



7 7. liEMBERTlA. Leafy-stemmed and tlocculent small annual, 

 with habit of a small Eriuphyllum, and similar involucre. Rays none. 

 Disk -corollas 4-toothed. Achenes of oval outline, the outer ones tri- 

 quetrous-compres-ssed the others flatly compressed, the angles villous- 

 ciliate. Pappus-palese few, hyaline, erose-laciniate, scarcely longer than 

 the hairs of the margins of the achene. 



L. Congdoni. Ealonella Congdoni, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xix. 20 

 (1883). Stem simple, or sparingly branched, erect, 6 in. high, sparsely- 

 leafy: leaves oblong-linear, sinuate-toothed or repand: bracts of the 

 involucre 5, broadly oblong: achenes pubescent on the flattened surfaces 

 as well as villous-ciliate marginally. — Deer Creek, Tulare Co., Congdon. 

 also in the valley of the San Joaquin at some unrecorded station, Parry. 



78. ACTINOLEPIS, De Candolle. Small floccose - woolly freely 

 branching annuals, with small heads of yellow flowers, the rays few. 

 broad and usually short, sometimes white or reddish rather than yellow. 

 Bracts of the obovate or oblong narrow heads few, thinnish, sometimes 

 concave and partly embracing the achenes. Receptacle convex or sub- 

 conical, or nearly flat. Achenes oblong or subclavate and 4-angled, 

 crowned with a scarious or more opaque paleaceous pappus of several 

 scales.— Plants sufficiently distinct from Eriophyllum in habit, texture 

 of involucres, and character of pappus. 



1. A. multicaulis, DO. Prodr. v. 655 (1836); Gray, Proc. Am. Acad, 

 xix. 24 (1883), under Eriophyllum. Stems depressed, slender, 3 — 6 in. 

 long, much branched, very fragile at the joints when mature, the wool 

 then deciduous: leaves cuneate or spatulate, obtusely 3-toothed or 

 3-lobed at apex: heads many, sessile, leafy-bracted: scales of the pappus 

 10—15, slender, acuminate, unequal, in the disk - flowers sometimes 

 wanting. — San Luis Obispo Co., and plains of Kern Co. and southward. 

 April, May. 



2. A. Priiifflei. Eriophyllum Pringlei, Gray, 1. c. 25. Only 1—2 in. 



high, or, the prostrate branches forming a mat several inches broad: 



