328 COMPOSITE. Baeria. 



B. anthemoides, Gray, 1. c. More glaudular, and with somewhat more filiform divisions 

 to the leaves: pappus wanting. — Pti/omeris {Ptilopsts) ajithemoides, Nutt. 1. c. Hi/menoxys 

 calva, Torr. & Gray, Fl. 1. c. Actinohpis (Pt'domeris) anthemoides, Gray, Bot. Calif. 1. c. — 

 Sau Diego, California, Nuttall, and near Julian City, Bolander. 



B. miitica, Gray, 1. c. Like the preceding, probably the pappose state of it ; pappus of 6 to 

 8 quadrate-oblong palere, the obtuse or truncate summit erose. — Pti/omeris muticu, Nutt. 1. c. 

 IL/inenoxi/s muticu, Torr. & Gray, 1. c. Actinulepis (Ptdomeris) muticu, Gray, Bot. Calif. 1. c. 

 — Sau Diego, California, Nuttall, Cleveland. 



142. SYNTRICHOPAPPUS, Gray. (2w, Opii, TraTTTros, bristles of 

 pappus united.) — Low and small Californian and Arizonian winter annuals, 

 floccose-woolly, mostly alternate-leaved, branched from the base ; with short- 

 peduncled heads terminating the branches ; flowers all yellow or rays sometimes 

 rose-red. — Pacif. 11. Eep. iv. 106, t. 15, Bot. Calif, i. 394, & Proc. Am. Acad, 

 xix. 20. 



S. Fremonti, Gray, 1. c. About a span high, loosely floccose: leaves spatulate or linear- 

 cuueate, often 3-lobed at summit : involucre 3 lines high, of about 5 broadly oblong bracts : 

 rays 5, ratlier large : flowers all golden yellow : pappus bright white. — Desert plains, S. E. 

 California, adjacent Nevada, S. Utah, and Arizona; first coll. by Fremont. 



S. Lemmoni, Gray. Smaller, slender, lightly woolly, glabrate in age: leaves spatulate or 

 linear, entire : involucre of 6 to 8 narrowly oblong bracts : rays small, rose-purple and white 

 or white-edged ; disk-corollas pale yellow : pappus none. — Proc. Am. Acad. xix. 20. Arti- 

 nolepis Lemmoni, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xvi. 102. — S. E. California, on the Moliave Desert, 

 Lemmon. Summit of Cajon Pass, Parish. 



143. ERIOPHYLLUM, Lag. ("Eptov, wool, cjn'Xkov, foliage, the plants 

 woolly.) — Mostly floccose herbs, rarely suftruticose (of W. N. America and 

 probably in northern parts of Mexico) ; with alternate or partly opposite leaves, 

 and peduncled or sometimes sessile heads ; the flowers wholly yellow, or one or 

 two with rose-purjile rays, one rayless. — Nov. Gen. & Spec. 28 ; Dougl. in Bot. 

 Reg. t. 11G7 ; Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. x'ix. 24. Erkqjhiillum & Phialis, Spreng. 

 Gen. 631. TrichophyUum, Nutt. Gen. ii. 166; Hook. Fl. i. 315. Bakla, DC. 

 Prodr. V. 656, in part; Torr. &, Gray, Fl. ii. 374, partly, not Lag. Actinolepis, 

 DC. Prodr. v. 655. 



§ 1. AcTiNOLEPis. Low and diffuse winter-annuals, with short-peduncled or 

 sessile heads only 2 or 3 lines high : involucral bracts few, distinct to the base, 

 herbaceous or chartaceous in age : anther-tips from ovate-lanceolate to linear- 

 subulate. — Gra}^, Proc. Am. Acad. xix. 24. Actinolcpis, DC, Benth. & Hook. 

 Gen. ii. 399 ; Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. ix. 198, & Bot. Calif, i. 377, excl. § Ptilo- 

 meris. 



* Heads sessile or nearly so in the forks, or at summit of branches, then snbtended by a leaf or 

 glomerate, 2 lines liij^h, wholly yellow-flowered: receptacle flat or barely convex: anther-tips 

 ovate-lanceolate, obtuse: leaves .small, spatulate, conmionly 3-lol)ed or 3-toothed at summit. — 

 Actinohpis, DC. 1. c, founded on specimens with infertile disk-flowers. 



E. multicaule, Gray, 1. c. Whitened with ratlier close cottony wool, sometimes denudate 

 iu age : stems slender, at length much branched, a span high, most of tlie internodes exceeding 

 the leaves: rays 3 to 5, obovate, a line long: akencs glabrate: pappus of 10 to 15 rather 

 firm narrowly subulate or nlmost aristiform palea;, or sometimes wanting in all or some of 

 the disk-flowers, especially when these are infertile ; then their style is only minutely forked 

 at tlie apex. — Actinulepis midtlcanlis, DC. Prodr. v. 6,56 ; Hook. Ic. t. 325 ; Torr. Bot. Mex. 

 Bound, t. 33. — Southern California to Arizona, from Santa Barbara to Tucson, in low 

 ground ; first coll. by Coulter and Douglas. 



