with innumerable flower heads bearing 10 to 12 ray flowers. Oval- 

 leaf goldeneye has a moderately stout stem, simple or sometimes 

 branched above, from 12 to 32 inches tall, with only 5 to 11 axillary 

 or terminal flower heads, having 12 ray flowers. Little information 

 is available concerning either the palatability or the abundance of 

 these species. They are probably low in palatability, being utilized 

 as forage only when other feed is scarce. Showy goldeneye and its 

 variety, Nevada goldeneye, are the other two members of this group. 

 The woody species comprise Death Valley goldeneye (F. reticu- 

 la'ta) limited to the Death Valley region, Calif omia; cutleaf gold- 

 eneye (F. lacinia'ta) found in California and Lower California; 

 Parish goldeneye (F. deltoi'dea, parish' ii) , appearing in California 

 and northern Lower California, Nevada, Arizona, and Sonora; and 

 skeletonleaf goldeneye (F. stenolo'^a)^ which grows in New Mexico 

 and Texas, and in northern Mexico from Chihuahua to Tamaulipas. 

 The flower heads, which are similar to those of showy goldeneye, 

 readily identify these species as members of this genus. Death Val- 

 ley goldeneye has broadly oval, somewhat heart-shaped, hairy 

 leaves ; the leaves of cutleaf goldeneye are all alternate, sometimes in 

 groups at the nodes, and are sharply cut into pronounced lobes ; the 

 leaves of Parish goldeneye are triangular in shape, strongly toothed, 

 and conspicuously veined; the leaves of skeletonleaf goldeneye are 

 divided, nearly to the midrib, into 3 to 7 narrow lobes. These 

 shrubby species may have a limited browse value, when other for- 

 age is scarce, but otherwise are practically worthless as forage ex- 

 cept that livestock will frequently pick off the flowering and fruiting 

 heads or, after frost, nibble the leaves. 2 



2 Dayton, W. A. IMPORTANT WESTERN BROWSE PLANTS. U. S. Dept. Agr. Misc. Pub. 

 101, 214 pp., illus. 1931. 



