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flowers yellow. Style-branches papillose or hairy. 

 Achenes 10-nerved. Pappus none. 



1. J. carnosa (Less.) Gray. Stems rather slender, prostrate, 

 many from fleshy crown of the tap-root, mostly simple, 1-2 dm. 

 long, rooting at the nodes; leaves 1.5-2.5 cm. long; heads about 

 1 cm. high; rays about 6, linear, not surpassing the disk; achenes 

 glabrous. 



Common in salt marshes along the coast. April-October. 



46. VENEGASIA DC. 



Stout perennial leafy branching herbs with scattered 

 large and showy heads of yellow flowers. Involucre 

 hemispheric, broad, the round-ovate bracts imbricated 

 in several series, the outer somewhat foliaceous, the 

 innermost narrow and scarious. Receptacle flat, naked. 

 Ray-flowers many, long, narrow, entire or 3-toothed. 

 Disk-flowers glandular-bearded especially at the base of 

 the tube, 5-angled and many-nerved. Pappus none. 



1. V. carpesioides DC. Stems widely branching, 1.5 m. high 

 or less, glabrous; leaves thin, ovate-deltoid or ovate-cordate, acute, 

 crenate, 7-10 cm. long, petioled, resinous-dotted beneath; heads 

 terminal and from the upper axils, short-peduncled, about 2 cm. 

 broad; rays about 15, and about 2.5 cm. long. 



Frequent in the Santa Monica, San Gabriel and Santa Ana 

 Mountains. 



47. PERITYLE Benth. 



Mostly annuals with dentate or palmately lobed 

 leaves, all but the lower alternate, and small or middle- 

 sized heads terminating the branches. Involucre hemi- 

 spheric, its bracts distinct, more or less overlapping, cari- 

 nate-concave and partly embracing the outer achenes. 

 Receptacle flat or concave. Ray-flowers yellow or white, 

 pistillate or none. Disk-flowers yellow, narrow, 4- 

 toothed. Achenes flat, cartilaginous-margined, usually 

 strongly ciiiate. Pappus a squamellate or cupulate 

 crown and commonly a slender awn from one or both of 

 the angles. 



1. P. calif ornica nuda (Torr.) Gray. Somewhat pubescent and 

 viscid-glandular; leaves roundish-cordate, about 1 cm. broad, 

 incisely lobed, the lobes coarsely dentate; heads narrowly oblong; 

 achenes oblong, densely hispid- villous on the margins; pappus none. 



Bluffs along the sea at Santa Monica, Hasse. 



