ERIOPHYLLUM COMPOSITE 855 
BAHIA 
convex, alveolate-toothed : pappus of 8-12 oblong-linear palese much shorter 
than the linear smooth achene. Along the coast from Chetco Oregon to 
southern California. 
E. cxspitosum Doug]. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1167. Floccosely white-wool- 
ly herbaceous perennial; many-stemmed from spreading rootstocks, 6-24 
inches high: leaves from spatulate to cuneate or roundish in outline, from 
incisely 3-5-lobed to pinnately parted, or the upper verging to linear and 
entire, upper face often glabrate in age: involucral bracts 8-12, oblong or 
oval, often more or less united: rays 6-12, 6-8 lines long: tube of the disk- 
corollas mostly hirsute-glandular and longer than the oblong scales of the 
pappus. Common from Alaska to California and the Rocky Mountains. 
E. achillewoides Greene Man.207. LE. cxspitosum var achillxoides Gray. 
Stems slender, 1-2 feet high: leaves pinnately parted or cleft into 3-5 nar- 
row laciniately incised or pinnatifid divisions: heads somewhat corymbose- 
ly collected and rather short-peduncled : involucre hemispherical, 3-4 lines 
high, of 9-13 narrow bracts: rays 9-13, 6-8 lines long, usually narrow: 
achenes sparsely pubescent or glabrate. Southern Oregon to California. 
E. leucophyllum Bahia leucophyllum DC. Lanuginose-tomentose 
throughout : stems 6-12 inches high, branching from the base, naked above: 
leaves oblanceo!ate or oblong-spatulate, 3-cleft or lobed at the apex, or 
somewhat pinnately incised or the upper linear and entire: heads solitary, 
long-peduncled ;“involucre campanulate, 4-5 lines high, of about 8 oblong 
bracts; rays oblong: achenes glabrous: pappus of 4 oblong or lanceolate 
pe scales and as many alternate smaller ones. Dry plains, Alaska to 
alifornia. 
E. lanceolatum. Surculose-stoloniferous: stems slender, 8-12 inches 
high, simple, bearing a single large head or few-flowered cyme, floccose- 
woolly : leaves lanceolate and entire, or the lower ones spatulate and spar- 
ingly dentate toward the apex, 6-12 lines long, densely white-tomentose 
when Penne. involucre 5-6 lines high, very densely white-tomentose, of 
10-15 lanceolate bracts: palez of the pappus acute, fimbriate-laciniate. In 
marshy places, Siskiyou Mountains near Ashland Oregon. — 
E. integrifolium Greene Fl. Fr. 444. Bahia integrifolia DC. Low, otten 
dwarf, cespitose, 3-10 inches high: leavesfrom narrowly spatulate and en- 
tire to more dilated and 3-lobed, ~ pee hoary; heads rather long-pedun- 
cled; involucre cylindrical, of 6-8 narrowly oblong bracts: achenes glabr- 
ous, rarely somewhat glandular-atomiferous near the summit: pale of the 
pappus mostly of the same length, about equalling the very g'andular but 
not hirsute corolla-tube. Brit. Columbia to California and the Rocky 
Mountains: usually only on the highest mountains. 
E. gracile Gray Proc. Am, Acad. xix, 25. Loosely floccose-woolly: 
stems slener, 9-15 inches high: leaves narrowly linear and entire: heads on 
long slender peduncles: involucre nearly 4:lines high, campanulate, of 
about 10 oblong bracts: rays about 8: receptacle nearly flat, alveolate-den- 
tate: achenes slender, glandular, 2 lines long: pales of the pappus oblong 
or quadrate. Southern Idaho on Snake river. 
62 BAHIA Lag. Nov. Gen & Spec. 30. 
Suffruticose or herbaceous plants with opposite or alternate, 
and small or middlesized heads of yellow flowers terminating the 
branches. Involucre hemispherical or obovate, lax or open in 
fruit, many flowered : the plain wholly herbaceous bracts distinct, 
in a single, or rarely double series. Receptacle small, mostly flat. 
Lobes or teeth of the corolla short.’ Style-tips truncate or obtuse. 
