304 COMPOSIT.E. Blepharijmjypus. 



perhaps indigenous to New Mexico and Arizona, an introduced weed about gardens in the 

 Northern States. In indigenous plants of the Southern border (var. Caracnscum, & var. 

 sepiicaha, Gray, PI. Wright, ii. 98) pappus of the ray much reducetl or wanting. (Mex., 

 S. Amer.) 



121. BLEPHARIPAPPUS, Hook. (BAec^apt's, the eyelash, TraTTTro?, 

 seed-dovvii, from the fringed palese of the pappus.) — A single but variable species. 

 (Transition to the Madiece.) 



B. SCaber, Hook. Annual, a span to a foot high, loosely branched, puberulent and sca- 

 bruus, and with some hispid hairs, above more or less glandular: leaves alternate, narrowly 

 linear, with revolute or involute margins when dry, entire : heads short-peduncled, terminat- 

 ing the paniculate branchlets, 3 to 5 lines high : both rays and disk-flowers white : anthers 

 brownish-purple. — Fl. i. .316 ; Torr, & Gray, FI. ii. 391 ; Gray, Bot Calif, i. 358. Ptilonella 

 scubni, Nntt Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 1. c. 386. — Dry plains and mountains, interior of 

 Oregon, Idaho, &c., to Nevada and the Sierra Nevada, California. 



Var. SUbcalvus, Gray, Bot. Calif. 1. c. Pappus both of ray and disk obsolete or 

 reduced to hyaline vestiges, — Eastern borders of California, Lemmon, Mattheivs, &c. 



Var. l^vis. Gray, 1. c. Slender, with filiform branches, almost smooth: heads few- 

 flowered. — California, Br'idtjcs. Taken for Ilenuzonia in Gen. PI. ii. 395. 



122. MADIA, Molina. Taraveed. (J/ac?«, the Chilian name of the com, 

 mon species.) — Glandular and viscid herbs, mostly heavy-scented ; with leaves 

 entire or merely toothed, some or all of them alternate ; heads axillary and 

 terminal ; the yellow flowers vespertine or matutinal, closing in sunshine : in 

 summer. — Molina, Chil. ; Cav. Ic. iii. 50, t, 'I'd^ ; Don in Bot. Reg. ; Benth. & 

 Hook. Gen. ii. oD3. Madaria (DC), Madariopsis, JlJadorella, Amida, Anisocar- 

 j)us, & HarpcEcarpus, IS'utt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 1. c. 



§ 1. M.YDiCuiA. Ligules exserted and conspicuous: disk-llowers sterile or 

 partly fertile : disk-corollas pubescent, except in the first species : herbage hir- 

 sute, the upper part minutely glandular. — Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. ix. 188, «&; 

 Bot. Calif, i. 358. 



* Annual, low and slender, will) mostly alternate leaves and small heads: pappus both to ray and 

 disk-liowers ! 



M. YoseiTlitana, Parry-, a span or more high : leaves linear, entire : heads slender- 

 pedunculate, 2 lines high; ray -flowers 5 to 10, with ligules aline or two long: disk-flowers 

 3 to 10, sterile .- corollas nearly glabrous : bracts of the involucre with short and narrow tips ; 

 of the receptacle 4 to 8, more or less connate by their margins : ray-akenes semi-ubovate or 

 slightly lunate, bearing an evident pappus in the form of a ciliolate crown: pappus of the 

 disk-riuwers of about 5 sparsely barbellate awns, nearly equalling the corolla. — Gray, Proc. 

 Am. Acad. xvii. 219 — California; near Fresno, .^isen ; at the foot of the upper Yosemite 

 Fall, Parrt) (few-flowered form) ; near Auburn, Marcus E. Jones, a larger form, with 8 to 10 

 rays and about as many disk-flowers. 



* * Pereimial, taller, with larger heads and some or most of the leaves opposite, occasionally 

 dentate: a manifest pappus to the disk-flnwers, of plumosc-lacerate or fimbriate paleae. — Aniso- 

 carpus, Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. vii. 388. 



M. Nuttallii, Gray. Stem slender, a foot or two high : leaves linear-lanceolate : heads 

 sparsely paniculate, 4 lines high, usually slender-])eduncled : involucral bracts 8 to 12, with 

 short inconspicuous tips : exserted ligules 3 to 5 lines long : only ray-akenes fertile ; these 

 obovate-falcate, much compressed, with sides many-striate and nearly nerveless : pappus of 

 sterile disk-flowers of small oblong paleiB. — Proc. Am. Acad. 1. c. viii. 391, ix. 188, & Bot. 

 Calif, i. 358. Anisocarpus madioidcs, Nutt. 1. c. ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 403. — Woods, from 

 Monterey, California, to Brit. Columbia ; first coll. by Nuttall. 



M. Bolanderi, Gray, 1. c. Stem 2 to 4 feet high: leaves linear (the longer 7 to 10 inches 

 long, 4 lines wide) : heads half to three-fourths inch high : involucral bracts and r.ays 12 



