446 COMPOSITE. 



small, broadly campanulate, of about 8 bracts: rays yellow, conspicuous: 

 achenes 4-augled, pubescent: pappus wanting, or represented by 1 or 

 more minute palese.— Foothills east of the Sacramento and San Joaquin, 

 near Brighton, Mrs. Curran, and in Amador Co., 3/r. Hansen. Wholly 

 an Eriophyllum, not only as to habit, but as to character of the invo- 

 lucre and achenes. 



14. E. baliia^folinm. Monolopia bahixfolia, Benth. PI. Hartw. 317 

 (1849). Smaller, simple and mouocefihalous, only 2—3 in. high: leaves 

 % in- liigh, spatulate to linear, entire, or at apex 3-lobed: involucral 

 bracts united below: immature achenes sparsely pubescent. — An obscure 

 and long lost plant, foiand in the valley of the Sacramento by Hartiueg. 



15. E. ambiguum, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xix. 26 (1883); 1. c. vi. 547 

 (1865); Bot. Calif, i. 382 (1876), under Bahia. Loosely and somewhat 

 deciduously floccose, 3—10 in. high, loosely branching above: leaves 

 alternate, entire, or 3-toothed: involucre campanulate, of 6—9 oblong- 

 lanceolate not very firm bracts: rays 5—9, oblong: achenes pubescent, 

 with or without a pappus of small palese.— Near Ft. Tejon and south- 

 ward. Plant with more the habit of Monolopia than any of the fore- 

 going. 



80. CH JINACTIS, De CandoUe. Compound-leaved herbs, often more 

 or less woolly, with discoid heads mostly solitary and pedunculate. 

 Involucre campanulate, the linear bracts eq^^al, uniserial, herbaceous. 

 Receptacle flat, naked. Corollas with short tube, long narrow throat, 

 and short teeth; but those of the outer circle in some more ample, 

 approaching the nature of rays. Achenes slender, smooth. Pappus of 

 hyaline nerveless paleae. 



* Corollas yellow, the marginal ones enlarged; all the species annual. — 

 Ch^naotis proper. 



1. C. laiiosa, DC. Prodr. v. 659 (1836). Stems short, branching, 

 bearing many long naked peduncles, the earliest scapiform: herbage 

 floccose-woolly when young: leaves thickish, simply pinnately parted 

 into few and narrowly linear lobes, or the uppermost entire: heads l^ ^^^ 

 high: involucral bracts nearly linear: pappus of 4 equal long palese. — 

 Plains and hills, from Monterey and the lower San Joaquin southward. 

 April — June. 



2. C. glabriiiscula, DC. 1. c. Taller, more caulescent, branching 

 above, the herbage thinly floccose, at length glabrate; peduncles long 

 stout: heads % in. high: bracts of involucre thickish, glabrate, obtuse: 



