Kit; Inuleae 



ovate-lanceolate, either entire or serrulate, 3-nerved from aear 

 the base, 7-14 cm. long; heads about 6 mm. high; involucral 

 bracts erose-ciliate, thin and pale with a greenish center; pappus 

 of pistillate (lowers scarious, 4 mm. long, soft, of staminate clav- 

 ellate and barbellate at the summit. 



Occasional along streams in our coast region. Ballona Creek; Los 

 Angeles River. August-October. 



5. B. glutinosa Pers. Stems herbaceous above, woody below, 

 1-3 m. high; branches striate-angled ; leaves very glutinous, 

 lanceolate, acute, denticulate or repandodentate, 5-7 cm. long; 

 heads in ample cymose panicles at the ends of simple slender 

 branches, mostly 6 mm. high; involucre stramineous, destitute 

 of green center or distinct costa. 



Occasional on borders of marshes. August-November. 



6. B. viminea DC. Shrubby and willow-like, producing short 

 lateral flowering branches, these terete and minutely striate; 

 leaves narrowly lanceolate, entire or sparingly denticulate, ob- 

 scurely 3-nerved, 5-7 cm. lon<_ r ; beads about 1 mm. high, hemi- 

 spheric, in small cymose clusters; involucre tawny, destitute of 

 green center or costa. 



Very common along all our streams throughout our range. April-July. 



Tribe 3. INULEAE. Everlasting Tribe. 



Annua] ot perennial mostly white-woolly plants, with 



alternate or opposite leaves and small dioecious heads, 

 [nvolucral bracts often white or scarious, imbricated. 

 Pistillate flowers mostly white, with filiform corollas. 

 Anthers caudate at base, unappendaged at apex. Pappus 

 capillary or none. 



Involucral bracts many; receptacle naked. 



Bracts dry, but not scarious. 80. Pluchba, 



Bracts scarious. 85. Ghaphalium. 



Involucral bracts few or none; receptacle chaffy. 



Bracts completely enclosing their achenes; pappus none. 



Achenes gibbous. 81. Uicbopus. 



Achenes Btraigbt or somewhat curved. 



Receptacle columnar. 82. BTTLOOLIHl 



Receptacle globose or ovoid. 88. PSILOCABPHTJS. 



ts of 2 kinds, the Lower completely enclosing their achenes; theothers 

 chaff-like, surround ag a central duster of flowers. 



84. PlLAQO 



