Baeria. COMPOSITE. 325 



141. BAERIA, Fisch. & Meyer. (In honor of the eminent Russian zoolo- 

 gist, Karl Ernst von Baer.) — Californian annuals, or one perennial species ; with 

 opposite and entire or pinnately dissected and sessile leaves, sometimes connate 

 at the base; and slender-pedunculate heads of yellow flowers terminating the 

 branches : fl. spring and early summer. — Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. ii. 29, Jard. 

 Petrop. t. 6, & Sert. Petrop. t. 7 ; Don in Sweet, Brit. Fl. Gard. ser. 2, t. 395 ; 

 Benth. & Hook. Gen. ii. 399 ; Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. ix. 196, Bot. Calif, i. 375, 

 & Proc. Am. Acad. xix. 21. Burrielia in part, DC. Prodr. v. G64; Torr. & 

 Gray, Fl. ii. 378, excluding the typical species. DlchcEta & Ptilomeris, Nutt. 

 Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. n. ser. vii. 382, 383. Dichceta & Hymenoxjjs, Torr. & 

 Gray, Fl. ii. 379, 380. 



§ Edbaeria. Pappus of uniform (or mainly uniform) and entire awned or 

 pointed palese or chalfy-based awns, or wanting (even present or absent in the 

 very same species) : receptacle muricate-roughened : ligules mostly conspicuous : 

 leaves linear and entire, except in one species. — Burrielia, Torr. & Gray, 1. c, 

 excl. B. microglossa. 



# Akenes slenderly subclavate-linear: style-tips abruptly terminated by a conspicuous narrow- 

 subulate appendage which usually surpasses the broad basal portion: receptacle slender-subu- 

 late and elongated in the manner of Burrielia: heads small: involucral bracts and oval rays 

 5, or sometimes only 4. 



B. leptalea. Wholly glabrous : stems filiform, a span high : leaves nearly filiform, quarter 

 to half inch loug : involucre 2 lines high : ligules mostly as long : anther-tips filiform : pap- 

 pus of 2 or 3 scabrous fiatteued awns with gradually dilated base. — Burrielia leptalea, Gray, 

 Proc. Am. Acad. vi. 546, & Bot. Calif, i. 375. — Monterey Co., valley of the Nacismeuto, 

 Brewer, and the Salinas, Greene. Known only as an exiguous vernal plant : probably also 

 occurs in a larger form. 



B. debilis, Greene in herb. Minutely pubescent: stems weak, 6 to 10 inches long: leaves 

 flaccid, linear, the largest inch and a half loug : involucre 2 or 3 lines liigh : ligules hardly 

 over a line long : antlier-tips ovate-lanceolate : pappus of 3 or 4 firm ovate-lanceolate and 

 awned paleaj, or in some heads none, then the akeue with narrower apex. — Plains of Fresno 

 and mountains of Kern Co., Greene. 



* * Akenes more clavate, with scanty aristiform pappus or commonlj'' none, then less truncate or 

 slightly contracted at summit, either glabrous or minutely papillose-glandular in same species: 

 style-tips capitate and mostly with a small apiculatiou : receptacle conical : large-flowered and 

 witli some hirsute pubescence, a foot or so high unless depauperate : rays and plane involucral 

 bracts 7 to 12. — Baeria, Fisch. & Meyer, 1. c. 



B. macrantha, Gray. Apparently perennial, rather stout, with peduncles 4 to 8 inches 

 long: leaves more or less 3-nerved and oljtuse, 2 or 3 lines wiile (the lower 4 to 8 inches 

 long), hispidly ciliate, at least toward the base: head about half-inch high and broad : invo- 

 lucre of about 12 hirsute-pubescent thickishherbaceous bracts: ligules half to three-fourths 

 inch long. — Proc. Am. Acad. xix. 21. B. chrijsostoma,ya,v. macrantha. Gray, Proc. Am. 

 Acad. ix. 196, «& Bot. Calif. 1. c. Burrielia chrijsostoma, var. macrantha. Gray, Pacif. R. Rep. 

 iv. 106. — Coast of California, north of San Francisco Bay to Humboldt Co., Andrews, 

 Bigelow, Bolander. 



Var. pauciaristata, Gray, 1. c. Clearly perennial, often only 6 inches high : leaves 

 shorter, hispid-ciliate : ligules only 4 or 5 lines long : pappus when present of 1 to 3 subulate 

 chaffy awns rather than paleaj, little shorter than the akeue. — Coast of Mendocino Co., 

 Bolander, Prin<ile. 



B. chrysostoma, Fisch. & Miyer, 1. c. Annual, slender: leaves narrowly linear (a line 

 or less wide) : heads 3 or 4 lines high : bracts of the broad involucre 7 to 12, in depauperate 

 plants sometimes fewer: ligules 3 or 4 lines long: pappus (perhaps always) none. — Don, 

 Brit. Fl. Gard. ser. 2, t. 395; DC. Prodr. v. 2.54; Gray, Bot. Calif, i. 375, excl. var. Bur- 

 rielia chrysostoma, Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 379. — Moist ground, common almost throughout 

 California. 



