1907] Hall. Compositae of Southern California,. 159 



tered : leaves linear, the lower toothed or pinnately parted : rays 

 10 to 13, yellow, sometimes tipped or edged with white, .8 to 2 

 cm. long : pappus white, villous with copious and interlaced hairs, 

 much shorter than the awn-like bristles. 



Very common on plains and in the foothills from Lower 

 California to San Bernardino and Santa Barbara ; less plentiful 

 in middle California. A plant gathered near Riverside (Hall. 

 no. 3981) has one head with deep-yellow ligules and two heads 

 in which the ligules are straw-color with rose-purple tips, recall- 

 ing the purple-rayed state of L. glandulosa. 



3. L. hieracioides (DC.) H. & A., Bot. Beech. 358 (1840). 

 Madaroglossa hieracioides DC., Prodr. v. 694 (1836). Blephari- 

 pappus hieracioides Greene, Pitt. ii. 246 (1892). 



Coarse erect plant, 3 to 9 dm. high : stems mostly simple below 

 and branching above, hispid with hairs arising from dark spots : 

 lower leaves oblong, 4 to 8 cm. long, laciniate-dentate, usually 

 somewhat narrowed at base ; upper leaves broadest at the sessile 

 base, the teeth fewer and mostly toward the apex: involucre 7 

 or 8 mm. high : rays yellow, little exceeding the disk : pappus- 

 bristles about 15, dull white or rusty, pubescent with straight 

 hairs. 



From Mendocino Co. to Point Sal, Miss Eastwood, and Santa 

 Barbara, Brandegee. 



4. L. graveolens Greene, Bull. Calif. Acad. i. 92 (1885). Ble- 

 pharipappus graveolens Greene, Pitt. ii. 246 (1892). 



Commonly simple below, sparingly branched above, about 3 

 to 5 dm. high : herbage short-hirsute and with numerous black 

 stipitate glands, or succulent and nearly glabrous when growing 

 in moist places: leaves narrowly lanceolate, obtuse, rarely 

 toothed : involucre 9 mm. high : rays lemon-yellow or cream-color. 

 1 to 1.5 cm. long: achenes slenderly clavate : pappus either 

 bright white or sordid, the hairs of the 15 to 20. bristles all straight 

 and erect. 



Tehachapi, Kern Co., Jun., 1884 (type), and May 17, 1905, 

 Mrs. Curran; mouth of North Creek, Mt. Pinos, Ventura Co., at 

 1600 m. alt,, Hall, no. 6476; Alcalde, Fresno Co., Brandegee; all 

 in the Upper Sonoran Zone. 



