BAILEYA (Bailey a paudradiata, H. & G.). Flower heads 

 yellow composed of both disk and ray florets, the latter 5 or 6 

 in number, short and of a pale lemon tone becoming papery 

 at maturity and reflexed; borne singly on short peduncles. 

 Leaves densely white woolly, alternate, narrow, without foot- 

 stalks. A much-branched, leafy, herbaceous plant from a few 

 inches to 1^ feet high, abundant in the desert regions of South- 

 eastern California, eastward to Arizona, blooming March to 

 May. 



Baileya is one of the flowers sure to attract the eye of the 

 tourist on the California desert in spring, both because of the 

 rather ghostly aspect of the plant in its white woollens and the 

 pale look of the flowers with their wan, turned-do\vn rays 

 altogether a somewhat unhappy appearing specimen, yet very 

 lovely. A kindred species, found on the Mojave Desert and 

 thence eastward to New Mexico, is Baileya multiradiata (var. 

 pleniradiata (H. & G.), Coville), with very numerous rays, and 

 flower heads on long peduncles. 



The name Baileya preserves the memory of Prof. Jacob 

 Whitman Bailey, "the father of microscopic research in 

 America." 



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