394 ASTERACEAE. 



clavate-llnear to cuneate-oblong, mostly 4-angled. Pap- 

 pus of firm pointless palese. 



1. E. confertiflorum (DC.) Gray. Stems suffrutescent, 4-6 dm. 

 high, usually branched from the woody base, with a close dense, 

 at length deciduous tomentum; flowering branches leafy; leaves 

 l-|-4 cm. long, ternately or pinnately 3-7-parted into narrowly linear 

 divisions; heads many in compact terminal clusters, 3-4 mm. high; 

 involucre obovoid-oblong, its bracts about 5, ovate; rays 4-5, 3-4 

 mm. long; palese 8-10, nearly equal, about half as long as the achene. 



Common throughout the lower altitudes of the chaparral belt 

 in all the mountains and hills. March-August. 



52. ACTINOLEPIS DC. 



Small floccose-woolly simple or freely branching an- 

 nuals, with small heads of yellow flowers. Involucre 

 obovate or oblong, its bracts few, thinnish, sometimes 

 concave and partly embracing the achenes. Receptacle 

 convex or nearly flat. Ray-flowers few, broad and usu- 

 ally short. Achenes oblong, subclavate and 4-angled. 

 Pappus composed of several scarious or somewhat opaque 

 paleaceous scales. 



1. A. Wallace! Gray. Diffusely branched or, when dwarfed, 

 simple, 4-8 cm. high, densely white-tomentose; leaves alternate, 

 obovate or spatulate, entire; heads short-peduncled; bracts of the 

 involucre about 8, becoming somewhat carinate-concave, with 

 scarious margins embracing the ray -achenes; ray-flowers short and 

 broad, yellow; achenes glabrous; palese 10, very short, obtuse. 



Dry washes in the interior valleys. La Canada; San Fernando 

 Valley. April-May. 



53. AMBLYOPAPPUS H. & A. 



Rigidly erect panicled small maritime annual with 

 gummy sweet-scented very bitter herbage, narrow entire 

 alternate leaves, and small discoid heads of yellow 

 flowers. Involucral bracts 5-6, broadly obovate, their 

 middle part becoming somewhat carinate-concave. Re- 

 ceptacle small conical. Corollas all short, tubular, those 

 of the pistillate flowers minutely 2-3-toothed, of the 

 perfect 5-toothed; the teeth soon connivent. Achenes 

 obpyramidal, pubescent. Pappus of 8-12 oblong obtuse 

 palea^ about equaling the corollas. 



1. A. pusillus H. & A. Somewhat corymbosely much branched, 

 10-25 cm. high, the lowest leaves pinnately 3-5-parted and opposite, 

 their segments narrowly linear; involucre 4 mm. high. 



Occasional on bluffs overhanging the sea. Port Los Angeles; 

 Playa del Rey. June-August. 



