CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY NO. IS 73 



receptacle is about flat and favose with circular pits where the flowers 



arise; liiere is no chaff or other processes on the receptacle ana lor tnis 

 reason the genus is thrown into the Helenieae rather than with the sun- 

 flowers. The flowers are 50-100 and clasely packed. Rays 15-20 and in 

 a single series, pistillate and fertile and nearly lin^ir and about an inch 

 long, 3-S-nerved, obtuse, concave, with lower part tubular and 3 mm, 

 long and densely pubescent with short flat jointed and oblong spreading 

 hairs yi mm, long, the pubescence inclined to spread a little upward 



along the ray. Stigmas club-shaped and blunt. Akenes cylindrical, finely 

 striate, about 4 mm long and 1 mm. thick, black, truncate at the tip and 

 without pappus, with scattered at<»niferous hairs. Disk flowers yellow, 

 about 1 cm. long, with the same pubescence on tube and with the same 

 akenes which are oblong. One would think that the pubescence is 

 glandular but I fail to find any glands. This is from fresh material 

 recently gathered near Santa Monica. The plants have the same habit 



;».s 



ium perforatum and grow among the brush ii 

 Califomicus Rhus virens, and intergrifolius 



Stachvs Californica, Platanus, etc. The flowers are much incKncd to be m 

 ii^iperfcct heads, and heads always surrounded by the leaves. 1 hi* is a 

 if^hrub 4-10 feet high. 



Genus 



PP 



ion 



The most striking thing about this brochure is the a.ssunif 

 data there given are new to science. Even a cursory examinatron of the 

 work of a score of systematic botjinists from the time off Nuttal! to the 

 present should have given Hall the data to accord credit to men wh<> 

 wc-ked in that line before Hall was bom. Perhaps Hall has no int<^n- 

 tioa of assuming to himself the credit for the principles 'he annminres, 

 I'Ut if he does not he should have referred them to men ^4io used them 

 long before he was a botanist If on the other hand he does not intend 

 ic assume credit for them then why does he publish them at this late 



^ate? I myself have used 'them for wer forty years in my sxuu^ i,i u.^ 



ecology of the Great Basin, in which I spent my life smce 187^ unc 

 reason why we incline to question his motive in the matter is ihat he is 



<»ver others is chronic. 



Clements, whose assumption of grc^ ^irpe 



Leptosyne 

 L. maritima. 



be aisfinct from 



from the cliffs 



near the sea. At times it becomes ten feet high and wim a .^^"^''; ^' ' 



ch.s tliick, but not really woody, for the ax vviH cut like ^^^^^J^^^^^^ 



the whole tnjnlc .t a stroke, quite different from the trunk f/'^'^^ 



-lomerata which is woody like the alh'ed genera, such as Aplopappus^ 



out in a candelabrum-like way and are 

 leaves on the ends, being leafless else- 



Coreops 



Th 



few 

 where. 



justified. So far as this species Is xoncerned the corolla js peculiar ^t 



. having the bulb at Sie base variously developed but m ha^^ng the 

 two thirds of the comlk ^reen :and Tin^y situate ^nd -rigid, 6ien 



