Carphephorus. COMPOSITE. 



1. A. Nardosmia, Gray* Floccose- woolly : stem rather stout, 1 to 2 feet high, 

 2 3-leaved, and bearing 4 to 7 large loosely corymbose heads : leaves round-reni- 

 form, 5 - 9-cleft, white-woolly beneath, becoming naked above, the lobes coarsely 

 toothed or cleft : heads an inch long, peduncled, about 50-iiowered : scales of the 

 campanulate involucre 12 to 30, lanceolate-linear, acuminate, a little shorter than 

 the disk : corollas yellowish, with elongated cylindraceous throat : anthers exserted : 

 akenes distinctly striate. Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 631. Cacalia Nardosmia, Gray, 

 Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 361. 



Open woods of Spruce and Pine, Sonoma to Humboldt Co., April, May, Bolander, Kellogg. 

 "Flowers of the color of yellow beeswax, and exhaling the odor of honey or beeswax." This 

 striking and peculiar plant indeed appears to belong (notwithstanding the yellowish flowers and 

 their far greater number in the head) to a small genus otherwise restricted to the mountains of 

 Middle and Southern Europe. The leaves much resemble those of Petasites palmata. 



5. CARPHEPHORUS, Cass. Sect. KUHNIOIDES, Gray. 



Head many-flowered. Involucre campanulate or hemispherical ; its scales imbri- 

 cated as in Brickellia, but less striate. Eeceptacle flat, furnished with some chaff 

 (resembling the innermost involucral scales) among the flowers, at least the outer 

 ones, and deciduous with the fruit. Corollas narrow, rather deeply 5-toothed, the 

 teeth open or spreading. Akenes 10-ribbed, five alternate ribs mostly stronger, 

 often 5-angular. Pappus a single series of equal plumose bristles. Gray, Proc. 

 Am. Acad. viii. 632. 



This genus is founded on four species of the Southern Atlantic States, with herbaceous mostly 

 simple stems, alternate leaves, and middle-sized heads of rose-purple flowers, most resembling 

 those of Liatris, the. pappus of rather copious and unequal bristles, which occupy more than one 

 series, and are at most short-barbellate. The California!! species have loosely branching stems, 

 suffrutescent at base, the lower leaves are opposite, the corollas pale and probably yellowish-white, 

 and the pappus, as above described, almost as plumose as that of Kuhnia. 



C. ATRIPLICIFOLIUS, Gray, was collected only in Lower California, near Cape San Lucas, by 

 Xantus. It may be known by its laciniate-lobed leaves and the striate glabrous scales of the 

 involucre. 



1. C. junceus, Benth. Minutely hispid or nearly smooth, much branched: 

 branches long and slender, rush-like, terminated by solitary or loosely corymbose 

 heads on slender peduncles : the few and sparse leaves linear, entire or sparingly 

 lobed : involucre 3 to 4 lines long, rather shorter than the flowers, the outer scales 

 white-pubescent and rather rigid : akenes puberulent : pappus of about 15 rather 

 rigid plumose bristles. Bot. Sulph. 21. 



S. E. borders of California, on or near the Colorado, Coulter, NfM-berry, Cooper, &c. : apparently 

 common in the adjacent parts of Arizona, and first made known from Hind's collection in Lower 

 California. The flowers were noted by Dr. Cooper as " yellow," which is not likely. They may 

 be cream-color. 



TRIBE III. ASTEROIDE^. 



Heads heterogamous with some marginal flowers pistillate (rarely neutral) and 

 commonly radiate (ligulate), or else homogamous, the corollas all tubular, or in 

 Baccharis homogamous but dioecious. Anthers appendaged at the apex, obtuse and 

 tailless at base. Branches of the style in perfect flowers more or less flat, margined 

 with conspicuous stigmatic lines, tipped with an appendage. Eeceptacle naked 

 (not chaffy), except in one Corethrogyne. In Baccharis only the flowers are dioe- 

 cious, and the style in staminate flowers not distinctly appendaged and commonly 

 unbranched. Disk-flowers yellow, rarely turning purple. Leaves almost always 

 alternate. 



