coriaceous, short-petioled. deltoid-lan- 

 ceolate and laciniate dentate, or upper 

 lanceolate with cuneate base, feather- 

 veined. the tapering tip and coarse 

 teeth somewhat spinulose: heads na- 

 ked-paniculate on the branches: fertile 

 involucres pubescent, armed with 7 or 8 

 s-.. ut-subulate and widely spreading 

 straight spines, 2-3-fl'd. Am ac pr 20: 



-.'anyon Cantilles, Baja Cal. (Or). 

 Cantilles! San Esteban, Baja (Br). 

 VIGUIERA LACIXIATA A. Gray. 



shrubby. 1-3 ft high, with slender 

 branches; Ivs about l 1 ^ in. long, including 

 the petiole, thin, rigid, very scabrous, the 

 coarse teeth, or lobes, ovate or triangu- 

 lar blunt: heads nearly Uj in. long: rays 

 nearly the same: squamellae of pappus 



: paleae of receptacle acutish. S D! 

 Quintin! 

 VIGUIERA PARISHII Greene. 



"Shrubby, much branched and sca- 



- -hispid: Ivs mostly opposite, an 



inch or two long, including the short pet- 



vate, acute, the margins with a few 



triangular teeth: fl'ng branches 



long and fiexuose, nearly naked above, 



ach bearing a single head; involu- 



lort. its scales ovate-lanceolate; 



ibout 10: receptacle convex: bristle- 

 like awns of the pappus about equalling 

 tht- finely ciliate akenes. and deciduous; 



tervening scales apparently pcrsist- 



. i;mer< us and acute." Greene, Torr 



:15. S D Co (Parish). CD. Baja! 

 HELIANTHUS OLIVERI A. Gray. 



Stout. 10-12 ft. high, leafy to top, re- 

 n-arkable for its soft-villous and even 

 tomentose pubescence and no rough- 

 leaves all alternate, lanceolate, 4- 

 7 in. long, tapering to an acute point, 



.t base info a short and margined 

 p-r'.iole, nearly entire, obscurely tripli- 



1 near the base: involucre villous, 

 of inear-subulate bracts, not surpass- 

 ing the dhk:rays an inch long: paleae 

 ie pappus subulate from a broad 

 base. Gray. Am ac pr 20:299. Los An- 



Co., Cal (J. C. Oliver). 

 BIDEXS SPECIOSA Parish. 



-B Xashii Wiegand Torr cl b 26:421, as 

 to the Cal. plants only. Aquatic, peren- 

 nial by stolens. g'abrous throughout; 



9 erect or assurgent. stout, with an 

 ex: i^eme height of 25 m, branched at ev- 

 ery node, the lowest branches becoming 



is, the upper short, erect, their ulti- 

 mate branchlets 1-3 fl'd: Ivs lanceolate, 1- 

 2 dm long, exceeding the internodes. con- 

 spicuously toothed, narrowed to the con- 

 nate base: heads on peduncles 4-8 cm 

 long, erect, nodding in fr outer involucral 

 bracts 4-8. foliaceous. linear-oblong, ser- 

 rate, equal, mostly twice longer than the 

 head, reflexed: inner bracts S. membra- 

 nous, yellowish, acutely oval, equalling 

 the disc: rays S. grolden-yellow. obovate- 

 ob]ong, 2x1 cm. the tips entire or ob- 



scurely toothed; ovaries oblong, truncate, 

 the edges retrorsely hispid; disc 2 cm 

 broad, 1 cm high; its cor light y, 6 mm 

 long, campanuiate, the lower half ab- 

 ruptly contracted into a columnar base, 5- 

 toothed; chaff linear-acute, as long as 

 the florets, y-tipped; mature achenes 

 black, fiat, 5 mm long, cuneate, very 

 slightly constricted at the summit: awns 

 2, w. 3 mm long, or with a third awn 

 half as long, and the achene then ribbed 

 on the awned face, awns and edges of 

 the achenes retrorsely barbed with rigid 

 prickles." Parish. Zoe 5:75. Common in 

 shallow streams, S Ber valley. 



BLEPHARIPAPPUS XL'DATUS Greene. 



"Freely branching from base, branch- 

 es slender, sparsely leafy, 6-12 in. high; 

 all the leaves, both of the radical ros- 

 ulate tuft and of the branches, oblong- 

 lanceolate and quite entire, scabrous, 

 especially on the margins, but these 

 and all other parts of the plant devoid 

 of the usual glands: heads small; rays 

 white, rather short and inconspicuous: 

 disk-corollas bristly-hairy at summit: 

 achenes with scattered and very close- 

 ly appressed hairs: pappus of about 10 

 stout scabrous white awns (hardly to 

 be called paleae) two-thirds as long as 

 the achene. their basal villous hairs 

 copious and elongated, only a third 

 shorter than the awns themselves." 

 Greene, pitt 3-168. Mts. Baja Cal. 

 (Or). 

 MADIA DEXSIFOLIA Greene. 



"Annual, 3-5 ft. high, the stem al- 

 most naked above and corymbose- 

 panicled, very densely leafy at and 

 near the base, the* leaves all narrowly 

 linear and entire, with strong midvein 

 and no lateral nerves, 4-8 in. long, 

 densely short-hirsute, not at all gland- 

 ular: the reduced and scattered rameal 

 leaves sparsely bristly-ciliate, the hairs 

 longer than the width of the leaf, all 

 the upper branches and foliage abun- 

 dantly glandular: rays ample, often 

 red at base: achenes compressed-tri- 

 gonous." Greene, pitt 3-167. Common 

 in western California. 



MADIA TEXELI.A Greene. 



"Annual, erect, very slender, 8-12 in. 

 high: sparsely short-pubescent, the pe- 

 duncles and involucres glandular: low- 

 est leaves opposite, upper alternate, all 

 narrowly linear, entire, obtuse, bristly- 

 ciliate be'ow the middle: heads few, 

 small, solitary or subracemose: bracts 

 of the involucre 5-7, with short and 

 broad tips: rays as many. 14 in. long. 



