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m hi or less; Ivs all filiform terete, 

 those of the blanches about 2 r>m long; 

 lower bracts of the inv g'ish-tipped; 

 rays 3-4; ak pubescent. 



Abrams, Fl LA 398. LA, SD. 



Greene, Erythea 3:12, based on Aplo- 

 pappus Palmeri Gray, Am ac pr 8:636 

 (1873). 



Aster Nevinii OK, Rev gen pi 316. 

 CHRYSOMA PANICULATA Greene. 



Greene, Erythea 3:12, based on Bige- 

 lovia paniculata Gray Am ac pr 8:644 

 US73). 



Aster asoe OK Rev gen 315. 



Southern California eastward. 

 CHRYSOMA PARISHII Greene. 



Arborescent, 2-4 m hi; Ivs lanceolate, 

 3-5 cm long, 6-10 mm wide, acute, sub- 

 coriaceous, strongly puncate, glutin- 

 ous; hds num in crowded corvmbs, ter- 

 minating the erect branches, sm. 10-12- 

 fld; inv turbinate; the bracts 1'evv, ir- 

 regularly imbricated, lanceolate, acute, 

 with a g midrib; ak turbinate, minute- 

 ly silky. 



Abrams, Fl LA 398. Gabr'ei; SBer. 



Greene, Erythea 3:10, based on Bige- 

 lovia parish!! Greene, Torrey cl b 9:62 

 (1882). 



Aster pan'Phii OK Rev gen 318. 



Low mts of southeastern Calif. 

 CHRYSOMA PINIFOLIA Greene. 



Rather , stout, with rigid, erect 

 branches, .15 mm hi or less; st-lvs fili- 

 form, 2.5 cm long or more, mucronate; 

 hds rather few in a contracted panicle, 

 or scattered, campanulate; proper 

 bracts of the inv broadly lanceolate 

 and with a g'ish midrib, the loose out- 

 er ones subulate, shorter than the in- 

 ner and passing into the sm Ivs of the 

 fig branchlets; rays usually 6-10; ak 

 glabrous or nearly so. 



Abrams, Fl LA 398. 



Aster pityphyllus OK, Rev gen 316. 



Interior of Southern Cal. 



Greene, Erythea 3:12, based on Ap- 

 lopappus pinifolius Gray, Am ac pr 

 8:636 (1873). 

 CHRYSOMA TERETIFOLIA Greene. 



Greene Erythea 3:12, based on Lin- 

 osyris teretifolia D-H, Pac Ry R, 5:9 t 

 7 (1855). 



Bigelovia teretifolia Gray, Am ac pr 

 8:644 (1873). 



Aster durandii OK Rev gen 316. 



Mts of Mohave Desert region. 

 APLOPAPPUS INTERIOR Coville. 



Stenotus interior Greene Erythea 

 2:72 (1894). 



Related to A. linearifolius DC, but 

 differing in its shorter Ivs (12-20 mm), 

 subulate-bracteate peduncle, shorter, 

 acute, involucral bracts, and smaller 

 rays 0-11 mm long. In A. linearifolius 

 the larger Ivs are 30-40 mm long, the 

 peduncles leafy-bracted, the involucral 

 bracts 11-14 mm long, including the 

 filiform-subulate acumination. and trie 

 rays 13-15 mm long." Coville, Wash 

 biol soc pr 7:65 (1892); CNH 4:121 

 (1893). 



Hall, U 124. 



Ut; Ar; Inyo Co; SD Co. 



196 



SOLIDAGO CALIFORNICA Nutt. 



Roughish with an almost cinereous 

 short pubescence, 6-9 dm hi, Ivs larger 

 and more num* below, passing from 

 obovate to oblong-lanceolate, and from 

 obtuse to acute, the lower and broader 

 more Or less serrate; panicle virgate, 

 rather loose, the racemiform clusters 

 secund; 'hds 6 mm hi; bracts lanceo- 

 late-oblong or oblong-linear, obtusish- 

 rays 7-12; ak pubescent. 



Hall, U 131. 

 SOLIDAGO CONFINIS Gray. 



Glabrous, or the infl sometimes min- 

 utely pubescent, 4-9 dm hi; ivs lance- 

 olate, the st Ivs shorter, about 5-8 cm 

 long, the basal often oblanceolate or 

 obovate, hds about 4 mm long, crowded 

 in a dense oblong panicle, not secund; 

 rays not surpassing the disk-fls; ak 

 canescently pubescent. 



Monterey to Mexico: CD! Cruz; Rosa. 

 ASTER GREATAE Parrish. 



Sts erect or assurgent, 4-17 dm hi, 

 glabrous or above sparsely hirtellous; 

 Ivs thin, ovate, oblong-lanceolate or 

 lanceolate, 6-15 cm long, the scabrid 

 margins few-toothed or entire, base 

 clasping; uppermost usually reduced to 

 linear or linearlanceolate bracts; hds 5 

 mm hi, in an ample panicle; inv-bracts 

 loosely imbricated in a few series, lan- 

 ceolate, g, minutely ciliate; rays 30-40, 

 light p, narrow, acute, 5-10 mm long-; 

 ak hirsute. 

 CASTER HESPE'RIUS A. Gray. 



Sts panlculatcly branched, 6-10 dm 

 hi, varying from nearly glabrous to 

 scabrous-pubescent; Ivs lanceolate, en- 

 tire or the larger with a few denticu- 

 lations. 5 T 10 cm long 6-15 mm wide; 

 hds crowded, 8-10 mm hi; inv of nar- 

 rowly, linear or more attenuate acute 

 or gradually acuminate erect bracts, 

 either unequal and imbracated or with 

 some loose and slender herbaceous ex- 

 terior ones which equal the inner; raj'S 

 either w or vio, 6-8 mm long. 



Abrams, Fl LA 402. Cienega. near 

 LA; and in low ground about SBer. 

 AFTER MEiNZIESIT Lind'. 



Strictly erect, about 4-6 dm hi, usu- 

 ally simple and very leafy up to the 

 mostly simply racemose or racemose- 

 paniculate infl. the whole plant ciner- 

 eously and roughly pubescent; Ivs ob- 

 long-lanceolate, acute, 5-7.5 cm long, 

 rvmotely and faintly serrate; hds num 

 in an ample cymose panicle, inv nearly 

 hemispheric, about 6 mm hi: bracts in 

 rather few series, spatulate-linear, 

 very obtuse, wholly g-herbaceous; rays 

 dull pale p'ish. 



Abrams, Fl LA 401. Occasional on 

 dry wooded hills about LA and east- 

 wa rd. 



Throughout Cal.; L A (Parish 573); Ne- 

 va r a. 

 TETRADYMIA COMOSA A. Gray. 



Branches erect, elongated, 4-8 dm hi; 

 primary Ivs linear, softly floccose-to- 

 mentose, the earlier 5-7 cm long, and 

 4 mm wide, plane; those of the branch- 



