1907] Hall. Compositor of Southern California. 161 



1. A. mollis Schauer, Del. Sem. Hort. Vratisl/3 (1837). 



Erect, simple or branching, 2 to 4 dm. high, pilose-pubescent : 

 leaves linear, remotely toothed or entire, 12 cm. or less long: 

 heads solitary, in flower 15 to 20 mm. high, in fruit expanding 

 and becoming globose, then 3 or 4 cm. broad: rays light yellow, 

 soon changing to reddish-brown : paleae of the achenes expanding 

 or rotately diverging. 



In open places toward the coast throughout the Upper Sonoran 

 Zone of western California, but not common in the south : Ramona 

 and Ysidora, San Diego Co. ; Pasadena, ace. to McClatchie ; Santa 

 Cruz Island, ace. to Greene 40 ; common on Santa Catalina Island, 

 ace. to Brandegee 41 ; Ojai, Ventura Co. 



TRIBE 7. HELENIEAE. SNEEZEWEED TRIBE. 



59. JAUMEA Pers. 



Perennial glabrous herbs. Leaves linear, entire, opposite, 

 connate in pairs at base. Heads medium-sized, many-flowered, 

 solitary, terminating the branches. Flowers yellow, the rays pis- 

 tillate, all fertile. Involucre cylindraceous-campanulate, its 

 bracts broad and imbricated, the outermost short. Receptacle 

 naked, conical. Corolla glabrous. Style-branches of the disk- 

 flowers thickened upward and papillose. Achenes linear, striately 

 10-nerved. 



1. J. carnosa (Less.) Gray, Wilkes. Exped. xvii. 360 (1874). 

 Coinogyne carnosa Less., Linnaea vi. 521 (1831). 



Stems rather slender, many from the fleshy crown of the tap- 

 root, mostly simple, 1 to 2 or 3 dm. long, decumbent at base and 

 rooting at the nodes : herbage succulent : leaves semiterete, about 

 2.5 (1.5 to 5) cm. long: involucre 1 cm. high : rays mostly 5 to 10, 

 not longer than the convex disk : achenes glabrous : pappus none. 



Common in saline soil all along the California coast, and to 

 British Columbia. 



40 Bull. Calif. Acad. ii. 403 (1887). 

 4iZoe i. 139 (1890). 



