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from the base, with 2-3-pinnatifid leaves mostly basal, and medium- 

 sized heads solitary on long nearly naked peduncles. Outer in\'olueral 

 scales 5-7; inner about 8. Rays usually styliferbus and fertile, some- 

 times neutral or with short included styles, broad and many-nerved. 

 Disk-flowers with bearded ring. Achenes dimorphous: those of ray 

 epappose, corky-margined and more or less corky-ridged on the faces ; 

 those of disk long-villous on margins, bearing a pair of linear-lanceolate 

 denticulate paleae. — Agarista DC. Prod. v. 569 (1836), not D. Don 

 1834 (Ericaceae). Pugiopappus Gray, Pacif. R. Rep. iv. 104 (1857). 

 Leptosyne sect. Pugiopappus Gray, Syn. Fl. 1. c. — Two species of 

 southern California. 



* Outer scales linear-lanceolate. 



9. C. BiGELovii (Gray) Hall. Simple or branched below, 1-6 dm. 

 high; leaves 5-10 cm. long, or smaller in starved specimens; outer 

 scales 6-11 mm. long, the inner ovate, 8-12 mm. long; rays 1-2 cm. 

 long; disk-achenes black, 6 mm. long, glabrous on both faces or 

 slightly pubescent on inner, twice as long as the awns. — Univ. Calif. 

 Pub. Bot. iii. 141 (1907). Pugiopappus Bigclovii Gray, Pacif. R. Rep. 

 1. c. Leptosyne Bigelovii Gray, Syn. Fl. 1. c. P. Brcweri Gray, Proc. 

 Am. Acad. viii. 660 (1873). L. hamiltonii Elmer, Bot. Gaz. xli. 323 

 (1906). — Southern California, not on the coast, from Tulare County 

 to the Colorado Desert. — The annulus of the disk-flowers, in the 

 types and other specimens examined, is very distinctly bearded, not 

 glabrous as originally described and as repeated in the Synoptic Flora 

 and by Hall. 



* * Outer scales deltoid-ovate. 



10. C. CALLIOPSIDEA (DC.) Gray. Rather stouter and more leafy- 

 stemmed, with broader leaf-lobes; outer scales united for about half 

 their length, the free deltoid tips 5-6 mm. long; inner scales 1 1-14 mm. 

 long; rays 1-2.5 cm. long; disk-achenes villous on inner face, nearly 

 equaled by their pappus. — Bot. Mex. Bound. 90 (1859). Agarista 

 caUiopsidea DC. Prod. v. 569 (1836). Leptosyne calliopsidea Gray, 

 S^'n. Fl. 1. c. L. caUiopsidea var. nana Gray, 1. c. (a dwarfed form). 

 Pugiopappus caUiopsidea Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 660 (1873). 

 P. caUiopsideus Gray, Bot. Calif, i. 355 (1876). — Southern California, 

 from Cholame (San Luis Obispo County) to Santa Barbara County 

 and the Mohave Desert; north to middle California according to Hall. 



Sect. 5. Euleptosyne (Gray) Blake, n. comb. Similar to last sec- 

 tion in habit and involucre (outer scales linear) ; rays glabrous, fertile. 

 Disk-flowers with an annulus, nearly glabrous in one species. Style- 



