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Sub-Family 1. Tubuliflorce. 

 Flowers, at least of the disc, tubular. 



Tribe 1. ASTEROIDE.E. 



Anthers without tails. Style branches of 

 disc-flowers, flat, with an appendix. Leaves 

 alternate. 



a. Parts of the pappus of definite number. 



1. Gutter rezia Lag. 



Superflua. Heads few-flowered. Ray -flowers 

 about 3, ligulate; disc-flowers about 5. Scales 

 of the involucre coriaceous, imbricate, their 

 tips green, reflexed. Akenes terete. Pappus 

 of about 9, paleaceous scales. 11 . ^ . Flowers 

 yellow. 



1. G. CALIFOBNICA. Torr. & Gray. Suffru- 

 tescent ; leaves linear. Dry river beds. 

 Sonoma. Livermore. Summer. 



2, Grindelia Willd. GUM-PLANT. 



Superflua. JEqualis. Head oo-flowered. Bay- 

 flowers ligulate, 1-seriate. Scales of the hem- 

 ispherical involucre in several series, their 

 green tips squarrose. Akenes compressed. 

 Pappus aristate. 



Resinous herbs; flower buds before opening, 

 bearing a drop of milky -looking resin. It . ^ . 

 Flowers yellow. 



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