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148. MONOLOPIA. DC. prodr. 6. p. 74 ; Hook. ic. pi. L 343 ^ 344. 



Heads many-flowered ; the rays 8-10, pistillate ; the disk-flowers perfect, 

 )ul apparently sterile. Scales of the cup-shaped involucre 8-10, united 

 )elow. Receptacle convex or somewhat conical, naked. Disk-corolla with 

 J slender terete tube, and a dilated limb ; the short teeth bearded. Achenia 

 glabrous, destitute of pappus; those of the ray obovoid, slightly obcom- 

 sressed ; of the disk compressed, infertile ?— Annual (Californian) woolly 



solitary heads terminating the branches. Disk and rays yellow. 



summit; rays much longer than the disk; the tube furnished with a 

 toothed appendage opposite the ligule ; receptacle nearly conical. — H 

 ic. pi. t. 344, Sc bat. Beechey, suppl.p. 359, ^ hot. mag. t. 3839. Holog; 

 Douglasii, Fisch., Mey. &fLall. ind. 8. hart. St. Petersb. (1841) p. 64. 

 California, Douglas .'—A foot high. Heads showy. 



, Dotiglas .' — A foot high. 

 ^2.^ iW. minor (DC! I.e.): lea 



receptacle convex. — Hook. ! ic. \ 

 California, Douglas .'—Plant • 



149. COINOGYNE. Less, in Linn^a, 6. p. 521, t. 6 ; DC. prodr. 6. p. 4^- 

 Heads many-flowered ; the rays several, small, pistillate ; the disk-flowers 

 tubular, glabrous, 5-toothed. Scales of the involucre few, imbricated, un- 

 equal, somewhat fleshy, very obtuse; the outermost short and rounded. 

 Receptacle conical, naked. Branches of the style in the disk-flowers tipped 



oblong, glabrous, many-ribbed, destitute of pappus.— A low perennial herb ; 

 •with ascending stems, terminated by solitary rather large heads, and fleshy 



sheath. Flowers yellow? 



C. carnosa (Less. ! 1. c.).—Hook. Sf Am. hot. Beechey, p. 150. 

 ^California, Channssof Capt. Beechey.— Stems about 4 inches in length- 



150. VENEGASIA. DC. prodr. 6. p. 43. 

 Heads many-flowered ; the rays numerous (15), pistillate. Scales of Ae 

 acutish, foliaceous; the intermediate 10 ovate-orbicular, very obtuse, some- 

 what colored ; the innermost (about 15) small and chafly, lanceolate or ob- 



glandula 



