364 ASTERACEAE. 



bracts linear-lanceolate, acute; rays 16-30; disk-flowers 8-14, their 

 style-tips obtuse. 



Frequent in low ground and along streams in our valleys and 

 foothills. August-November. 



10. ERICAMERIA Nutt. 



Low evergreen shrubs with mostly narrow subterete 

 punctate leaves and terminal cymose or corymbose 

 clusters of small heads. Involucre turbinate, its bracts 

 mostly lanceolate, very regularly imbricated, margins 

 subscarious. Flowers permanently yellow. Disk-flow- 

 ers slender with subcampanulate throat and deeply cleft 

 limb. Style-appendages filiform, acuminate, hirsutulous. 

 Achenes more or less distinctly prismatic. Pappus of 

 scabrous slender bristles, dull-white or yellowish, becom- 

 ing reddish. 



Leaves flat, not filiform. 



Leaves linear-lanceolate; erect shrub. 1. E. parishii. 



Leaves obovate or oblanceolate; low spreading 



shrub. 2. E. cuneata. 



Leaves filiform. 



Achenes glabrous. 3. E. ericoides. 



Achenes pubescent. 



Outer involucral bracts obtuse. 4. E. palmeri. 



Outer involucral bracts acuminate. 5. E. pinifolia. 



1. E. parishii (Greene) Hall. Arborescent, 2-4 m. high; leaves 

 lanceolate, 3-5 cm. long, 6-10 mm. wide, acute, subcoriaceous, 

 strongly punctate, glutinous; heads numerous in crowded corymbs, 

 terminating the erect branches, small, 10-12-fiowered; involucre 

 turbinate; the bracts few, irregularly imbricated, lanceolate, acute, 

 with a green midrib; achenes turbinate, minutely silky. {Bigelovia 

 parishii Greene.) 



Occasional in the lower portions of the chaparral belt of the San 

 Gabriel, San Bernardino and Santa Ana Ranges. August-October. 



2. E. cuneata (Gray) Greene. Freely branching and spreading, 

 about 3 dm. high; leaves coriaceous, cuneate-obovate or spatulate- 

 obovate, often retuse, 10-14 mm. long, resinous-punctate, glutinous; 

 heads about 12 mm. high, in a terminal fasciculate corymb; bracts 

 lanceolate or linear, obtusish; rays 1-5 or none; achenes pubescent. 

 (Aplopappus cuneatus Gray.) 



On rocky ledges in the San Gabriel and San Bernardino Moun- 

 tains. 



3. E. ericoides (Less.) Jepson. Diffusely branching, 8 dm. high 

 or less, the branches fastigiate-corymbose, very leafy throughout; 

 leaves linear, terete, those of the branches about 1 cm. long, de- 

 flexed, bearing in their axils very short branchlets hidden by 2- 

 ranked closely imbricated shorter ones; involucres turbinate, about 



