Aplopappus. COMPOSITiE. 133 



tips, or some, outer looser ones foliiiceous or foliaceous-tipped : rays few, some- 

 times only one (which alone definitely sejjaTates the group from Bigelovia, and 

 even this fails in one or two species !) : disk-corollas commonly somewhat ampli- 

 ate upward and rather deeply 5-toothed : style-appendages (with some exceptions) 

 filiform or slender-subulate : akenes slender : pappus fine and soft : all W. North 

 American shrubby or fruticulose plants, very leafy, mostly with Heath-like foliage, 

 glabrous or almost so, except in one species, disposed to be resinous-dotted and 

 balsamic-viscid. — PI. Wright, ii. 80. Ericameria, Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 

 1. c. ; Benth. & Hook. Gen. ii. 2.35. 



* Aiioinalous for its bmad althoiii;h small leaves, also in the frciinent absence of the scanty ravs: 

 involucral bracts (as of the next following yronp) all close and nftappendag-ed, tiio outer suc- 

 cessively shorter. 



A. cuneatus, Gray. Shrub a foot or so high, intricately branched and spreading, bal- 

 saniic-glutinous: leaves thick, cuueate or rarely obovate, refuse, sometimes apicuhite, entire 

 but inclined to be undulate, usually resinous-punctate, 2 to 4 lines long, larger ones petioled : 

 heads corymbosely fasciculate, 5 or 6 lines long: involucre turbinate ; bracts lanceolate or 

 nearly linear, rather obtuse : rays 2 or 3, or solitary and small, or as commonly wanting : 

 style-appendages slender-subulate, not longer tlian the stigmatic portion : akenes pubescent. 



— Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 6.35, & Bot. Calif, i. 312. Bigelovia spathidata. Gray, Proc. Am. 

 Acad. xi. 74, & Bot. Calif, i. 613, also B. rupestris, Greene in Bot. Gazette, vi. 184, the rayless 

 state ! — Caiions and cliffs in the Sierra Nevada, California, from Placer Co. and the Yosem- 

 ite to the Mexican border below Sau Diego, and in Arizona; first coll. by Dolander and 

 southward by Palmer, &c. 



* * Typical species : leaves from liliform to very narrowly linear, thick: proper bracts of the in- 

 volucre obtuse or barely acute and close : shrubs a foot to a yard or more high. 



H— Heads only 3 or 4 lines high, in close cymose clusters terminating fastigiate branchlets: bracts 

 of the involucre in only 2 or 3 series, no loose outer ones: leaves half-inch or less long: akenes 

 villous: style-appendages shorter than the linear stigmatic portion, not attenuate. 



A. laricifolius, Gray. About a foot high : leaves linear-aeerose, rigid, miicronate, con- 

 spicuously resinous-punctate and becoming viscid, crowded but seldom axillary-fascicled ; 

 larger ones narrowed downward and Hatter : involucral bracts subulate-linear, acute : rays 

 3 to 6, with rather conspicuous oblong ligules : disk-flowers 10 or 12 : stj'le-apjieudages linear, 

 rather obtuse. — PI. Wright, ii. 80, & Pacif. 11. Pep. iv. 99 ; Kothrock in Wheeler Rep. vi. 144. 



— Western borders of Texas to mountains of Arizona, first coll. by Wright, Bigelow, &c. 

 A. monactis, Gray. A foot to a yard or more high, hardly becoming viscid: leaves not 



pmictate, mostly obtuse or pointless, more disposed to have axillary fascicles, otherwise not 

 unlike those of the foregoing : involucral bracts only 8 or 10, oblong or linear-oblong, obtuse, 

 thin-chartaceous : ray-flower solitary with an elongated-oblong ligule, -wanting to some 

 heads : disk-flowers 5 or 6: style-appendages oblong-ovate, acute. — Proc. Am. Acad. xi.x. 2. 



— S. E. California, on the San Bernardino Mountains and Mohave Desert, Palmer, Parish, 

 Prinijle. 



-h- 4— Heads 4 or h lines high, paniculate: iiivolurral bracts imbricated in several ranks: style- 

 appendages filiform-subulate: leaves all filibjrni or nearly terete, excessively numerous and 

 axillary-fascicled. 



++ Involucre narrow, 7-20-flowered ; its bracts all erect, more or less obtuse, somewhat tomentu- 

 lose-ciliolate when young; outer siiccessively shorter, becoming greenish and passing into the 

 verj' short leaves of the ultimate branchlets: cauline leaves short: shrubs 2 to 5 feet high, bear- 

 ing very numerous heads: young parts disposed to be cinereous-pruinose or puberulent. 



A. ericoides, IIook. & Arx. Fastigiately much branched: cauline leaves only half-inch 

 and those of the dense fascicles 2 or 3 lines long : rays 3 to 5, short : akenes glabrous. — 

 Bot. Beech. 146 ; DC. Prodr. v. 346 ; Gray, Bot. Calif, i. 313. iJiplopappus ericoides, Less, in 

 Linn. vi. 117. Ericameria microphijlln, Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 1. c. ; Torr. & Gray, 1. c. 



— California along the coast, especially on sand-hills near the .sea; fir.st coll. by Chainisso. 

 A. Palmeri, Gray. Paniculately much branched: cauline leaves often inch long: lower 



bracts of involucre more grcenish-lijjped : rays 3 or 4 and disk-flowers 5 to 1.5 : akenes pubcs- 



