iio California Art & Nature 



Genns AMBLYOPAPPTJS Hook & Am. 



AMBLYOPPUS PUSILLUS H. Arn. 

 Genns HULSEA Torx-ey & Gray. 



HULSEA CALIFORNICA T. & G. 

 HULSEA VESTITA A. Gray. 



Genus PALAFOXIA Lagrasea. 



PALAFOXIA LINEARIS Lagasca. 

 Genus CHAENACTIS De ^andolle. 



CHAENACTIS ASTEMISIAEFOLIA A G 

 CHAENACTIS CARPHOCLINIA A. Gry. 

 CHAENACTIS DOUGLASII Hook & Arn 

 CHAENACTIS FREMONTI A. Gray. 

 CHAENACTIS HETBHOCARPHA A. G. 

 CHAENACTIS LANOSA D. C. 

 CHAENACTIS MACRANTHA Eaton. 

 CHAENACTIS PARISHII A.Gray. 

 CHAENACTIS SANTALINOIDES Grne. 

 CHAENACTIS STEVIOIDES Hook-Arn. 

 CHAENACTIS SUFFRUTESCENS A. G. 

 CHAENACTIS TENUIFOLIA Nutt. 

 Genns HELrElVIIJM Linnaeus. 



HELENIUM BIGELOVII A. Gray. 

 HELBIUM PUBERULUM DC. 

 is common along water courses from 

 San Francisco soutliward to Santo 

 Tomas, Baja California. Bancroft 



Genus PEIVTACHAETA Nnttatl. 



PENTACHAETA AUREA Nutt. 



PENTACHiETA ORCUTTII A. Gray. 



"P. aurese subsimilis; capitulis parvu 

 lis; involucre villoso-pubescente, bracteis 

 virldiorlbus; ligulis breviorlbus; pappl 

 setis 8-10 capillaribus basi baud dilatatis 

 caducis!— Vallecito, in the northern rart 

 of Lower California, C. R. Orcutt, May 

 4, 1886."— A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad., xxii 

 309 (March 4, 1887). 



PENTACHCKTA PALBACBA Greene. 



"A span high, with very numerous fili- 

 form branches: involucres small, scales 

 In 2 series, pubescent, setaceous-tipped: 

 corollas of ray and disk y. : akenes nearly 

 linear; pappus-bristles 5, slender, with a 

 thin, triangular palea at base."— Greene. 

 Bull. Cal. Acad. Sci., i. 189-190 CAug. 29, 

 18S5). 



Genns FRAIVSERIA Cav. 



PRANSf^RIA BIPINNATIFIDA Nutt; 

 FRANSBRIA C^ MPHORATA Greene. 

 FRANSBRIA CHI:N0P0DIF0LIA Benli. 

 FRANSBRIA DUMOSA Gray. 

 FRANSBRIA FLBXUOSA A. Gray. 

 FRANSBRIA HOOT-'ERIANA Nutt. 

 FRANSBRIA ILICIFOLIA A. Gray. 



says this plant is used by the Indians FRANSBRIA TBNUIPOLIA A. Gray. 



in the same w^ay as we make use of 

 sarsaparailla. Mrs. Bingham (1. c.) 

 ■ says it is "used as a tonic and antis- 

 corbutic, and also in the form of a 

 powder for catarrh." She gives the 

 vernacular name as sneezewood. It is 

 known to the Mexicans as rosea or 

 rosiila (the proper spelling of the word) 

 who inform me that the seed is the part 

 mainly used medicinally. 

 Genns SYXTRICHOPAPPUS A, Gray. 

 SYNTRICHOPAPPUS FREMONTI A. G. 



Genus GRIXDELIA WiUd. 

 GRINDELIA ROBUSTA Nutt. 

 popular remedy, especially recommend- 

 ed as a remedy for the effects of the 

 poison oak (Rhus d'iversiloba Torr. & 

 Gray), the plant being applied fresh, or 

 a decoction or alcholic infusion used 

 (Mrs. Bingham) 



Genus ENCElilA Atlanson. 



BNCELTA CALTFORNICV Nutt. 

 ENCELIA ERIOCBPHALA A. Gray. 

 ENCELIA FARINOSA A. Gray. 

 ENCELIA VISCIDA A. Gray. 



Gem!?H OEXTAl'REA Iii5»naeuH, 

 CENTAURBA MBLITENSIS Linn. 

 CENTAUREA SOLSTITIALIS Linn. 



. Genus PEREZIA Lagasea. 



PBREZTA MICROCEPHALA A Gray. 

 G?nu» SILYBUM Gaertn. 



SILYBUM MARIANIJM Gaertn. 



Geiiu.s CNICITS Linnaeus 



CNTCUS CALIFORNjroS A. Gray. 

 CNTCUR DRUMMONDII A. Gray. 

 CNICUS OCCIDENT A LIS A. Gray. 



Genns OORETHROGYIVE De C. 



CORETHROGYNE FILAGINIFOLIA Nt. 

 Genus STEPH ANOMERIA Nuttall. 



The crude drug sells PT:tLOPTA CICHORIACEA Greene. 



, . or f,n -u J J % A PTILORIA EXIGUA Greene, 



at about $5.00 per hundred pounds. A ptilO'RIA PANICULATA Greene. 



Russian scientist is at present engaged PTILOBIA PARRYI Orcutt. 



in a study of the medicinal properties Pj ILOJ?IA PAUCIFLORA Raf. 



•of this nlnnt ond of the other snecies PTTLOFTA PENTACHAETA Greene. 



Of this plant ana oi tne otner species ptiloria VIRGATA Greene, 

 of the genus — most of which seem to 



possess the same valuble properties 

 and some of which are doubtless often 

 substituted for or confused with the 

 typical G. robusta of Nuttall. One of 

 these, G. subsquarrosa, I have recent- 

 ly supplied to an eastern firm, send- 

 ing them about fifty pounds of the 

 crude dmg, for them to thoroughly 

 test its properties. 



Geirins RAFINESQXIA Nnttall. 



RAFINBSQUIA CALIFORNICA Nutt. 

 RAFINBSQUIA NEO-MEXICANA A. G. 

 Genus ATVISOCOHIA Torrey & Gray. 

 ANISOCOMA ACAULE T. & G. 



Genns MICROSERIS Don, 



MICROSBRIS ELEGANS Greene. 



Span or more high, slender, head less 

 than !/>': akenes turbinate, slightly over 

 1" long-: palese ovate-deltoid, i^" long, the 



