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ERLOPHYLLUM 
L. glaberrima DC. Prodr. v, 664. Somewhat fleshy : stems ascending, 
6-12 inches long: leaves elongated-linear: heads on long peduncles which 
are enlarged at the summit, nodding’in flower : involucre about 15-toothed : 
corollas all shorter than the minutely puberulent oblong-linear achenes: 
pappus of 5-10 rigid pale, two or three of them with subulate or short- 
awned points, the others erose or laciniate. In salt marshes along the coast 
of Oregon and California. 
60 BAERIA F.& M. Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. t. 7. 
Low plants with opposite sessile leaves, and slender-peduncled 
heads of yellow flowers. Heads mostly many-flowered, with 5-15 
- conspicuous rays. Bracts of the campanulate or hemispherical 
involucre as many as rays, plain or becoming somewhat carinate, 
at least below. Receptacle subulate to conical. ‘Tips of the style 
truncate-capitate, with or without a central apiculation, to ovate, 
sometimes with a cuspidate appendage. Disk-corollas with slen- 
der tube as long or longer than the campanulate 5-lobed limb. 
Achenes clavate-linear to linear-cuneate. Pappus a few palex or 
paleaceous awns or both, often wanting. 
B. aristosa. B. gracilis var. aristosa Gray. Slender annual 3-10 inches 
high, strigose-pubescent: leaves linear, entire, mostly opposite: involucre 
3-4 lines high, of 8-10 broadly lanceolate to ovate acute bracts: rays as 
many as bracts, ligulate, lanceolate obtuse: achenes Hnesr oblong with 
pappus of 4-5 small paleze with awns gradually and slightly widen own: 
ward and as long 2s the achene. dry,open placcs, Sathorn Oregon and 
California. 
* * Receptacle flat or convex. Achenes from linear to obpyra- 
midal, rarely 5-angled. Flowers (with few exceptions), all fertile. 
61 ERIOPHYLLUM Lag. Noy. Gen. & Spec. 28. 
Floccose-tomentose or rarely glabrate herbs (rarely suffr’ ti- 
cose), with alternate or partly opposite leaves, peduncled or - 
sometimes sessile heads of mostly yellow flowers. Involutre 
many-flowered, from hemispherical to oblong, commonly equl 
alling the disk, of one or sometimes two series of oblong or 
narrower firm-herbaceous or coriaceous permanently erect 
bracts, distinct or sometimes partially united into a cup: at 
least in fruit concave in the centre and partially enclosing the 
subtending achenes. Ray-flowers usually with broad ligules, 
very rarely none. Disk-corollas with distinct and sometimes 
slender proper tube. Style-tips truncate, obtuse or obscurely 
capitellate-conical. Achenes narrow, from clavate-linear to 
cuneate-oblong, mostly 4-angled. Pappus of nerveless “and 
mostly pointless palez. | 
E. stechadifolium Lag. 1.c, Canescent with close-pressed pannose 
tomentum, at length partly denudate, 1 to 4 feet highfiom a woody base: 
leaves once or twice pinnately parted into oblong or linear divisions, orthe 
upper ones sometimes entire, about an inch long, soon glabrate and reen 
above: heads 3-4 lines high, in rather loose paniculate clusters; involucre 
cylindraceous-campanulate, of 8-10 linear-spatulate to narrowly-oblong 
thinnish bracts: rays 6-8, only a line or so long, roundish-oval: receptacle: 
