Thelesperma. COMPOSIT.E. 301 



§ 4. CoreocXrpus. Akenes nearly of Euleptosyne, but mostly with tuber- 

 culate T'ather than winged margins, and some of them bearing a j^air of sometimes 

 retrorsely hisjiid awns ; those of the ray-flowers mostly fertile : style-branches of 

 tlie disk-flowers produced into a subulate appendage : outer involucre of a few 

 small inconspicuous bracts : annuals or suft'ruticose perennials ; with branching 

 stems, opposite leaves, and small cymose or paniculate heads on short slender 

 peduncles. — Coreocarpus & Acoma, Benth. Bot. Sulph. 1. c. CoreocarpuSj Benth. 

 & Hook. Gen. u. 384. 



L. Arizonica, Gray. Stems 2 or 3 feet high, and paniculately branched from a woody 

 base, rigid, slender : leaves 3-5-parted into mostly entire linear acnte lobes: heads loosely 

 cymose, 3 or 4 lines long : outer involucre of 1 to 3 small loose bracts ; inner of 6 to 8 ovate 

 ones in two ranks : rays 5 or 6, about 3 lines long : disk-corollas with a bearded ring : akenes 

 narrowly oblong, with faces either smooth or papillose-muriculate, and margins beset with a 

 wing which is wholly dissected into a pectinate tubercular fringe (in the manner of Coreopsis, 

 § Coreolonia), the inner and less fertile or infertile marginless, some without pappus, others 

 bearing either one or two short and setiform awns, which are either naked or sparingly 

 denticulate, the denticulatious spreading or a few of them recurved. — Proc. Am. Acad, 

 xvii. 218. — Along streams in the Santa Catalina Mountains, Southern Arizona, Ze7nmo«, 

 Prlnglc. 

 L. PARTiiENiofDES (Coreoccrrpus pnrthem'oicles, Benth. Bot. Sulph. t. 16), L. iieterocArpa 



(C heterocarpus, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. v. 162), and L. dissecta (Acoma dissectum, Benth. 



L c. t. 17) are species of Lower California, insufficiently known. 



117. THELESPERMA, Less. (@r}\ri, a nipple, o-7rep/i,a, seed, from 

 the pajDillosity of some of the akenes.) — Perennial, sometimes annual or sufEru- 

 tescent herbs (of the Great Plains, and one on the Pampas of S. Amer.), smooth 

 and glabrous ; with habit of Goreojjsis, opposite usually finely dissected leaves, and 

 pedunculate heads ; the rays normally golden yellow, disk-flowers yellow, some- 

 times purplish or brownish. — Less, in Linn. vi. 511; Gray in Kew Jour. Bot. 

 i. 252, & PI. Wright, i. 109. Cosmidium, Torr. & Gray, in Nutt. Trans. Am. 

 Phil. Soc. 1. c, & Fl. ii. 350. 



* Lobes of the disk-corollas linear or lanceolate, longer than the short campanulate throat: style- 

 appendages with cuspidate or subulate tips : pappus evident : chaff of receptacle falling with and 

 partly embracing the akenes. 



T. scABiosiofDES, Lcss., of the Pampas in S. America, closely represents T. gracile, but has 

 more filiform foliage and longer-awned pappus. 



CosMiPiuM BurridgeAvum of the gardens is a hybrid of T. JilifoUum and Coreopsis tinc- 

 toria, acquiring its brown-purple rays from the latter. 



T. filifolium, Gray. A foot or two high from an annual or biennial root, loosely branch- 

 ing, leafy : leaves not rigid, bipinnately divided into filiform lobes no wider than the rhachis : 

 bracts of the outer involucre 8, subulate-linear, almost equalling or more than half the 

 length of the inner, which are connate only to the middle : rays broad, over half-inch long : 

 disk usually purple turning brownish : outer akenes becoming coarsely papillose on the Iwck ; 

 the stout triangular-subulate pappus-scales not longer than the width of the akene. — Kew 

 Jour. Bot. i. 252, & PI. Wright, i. 109. Coreopsis trificla, Lam. 111. t. 704 ; Poir. Suppl. ii. 

 353, ex tab. C.Jilifolia, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3505. Cosmidium JilifoUum, Torr. & Gray, Fl. 

 ii. 350. — Dry uplands and plains, Arkansas to Texas. 



T. ambiguum, Gray. A foot high, perennial and spreading by creeping rootstocks, rather 

 rigid, usually more naked above or with longer peduncles : cauline leaves less compound ; 

 the lobes from filiform to narrowly linear ; bracts of inner involucre connate to or above the 

 middle: rays rarely wanting; otherwise as the preceding. — Proc. Am. Acad. xix. 16. 

 T. JilifoUum, Gray, PI. Wright, i. 109, & ii. 90, chiefly. — Plains and hills, W. Texas to New 

 Mexico, Colorado, and Montana. 



