COTULA. AUSTRALIS Hooker. 



Parish, Zoe 1:58. SD. 



Davidson, Erythea 1:61. LA Co. 



Ann, slender and diffusely branched, 

 pubescent with soft spreading- hairs, 

 not at all succulent, 5-12 cm long; Ivs 

 1-2-pinnately divided into linear lobes; 

 hds 2-3 mm broad; Involucral bracts 

 brownish tipped, scarious-margined; 

 apetalous fls in 2-3 rows, pedicellate, 

 their ak minutely hispid on both faces, 

 tiie margins smooth. 



Abrams, Fl LA 436. In waste places 

 along streets, not common. Ja-Mr. 

 COTULA CORONOPIFOLIA Linn. 



Per, usually subaquatic, somewhat 

 succulent and glabrous; sts clustered, 

 stoutish, decumbent, 25-30 cm long; Ivs 

 linear lanceolate, laciniate-pinnatifld 

 or the upper entire, clasping or sheath- 

 ing at the base; hds much depressed, 

 8-12 mm broad; apetalous fls in 1 row, 

 their ak with a thick spongy wing; 

 disk-fls y, their ak with wing reduced. 



L, Sp PI 2:892 (1753). 



Type locality: "in Aethiopia," etc. 



Coville, CXH 4:137. Near SBer. 



Parish Zoe l:oS. 



Davidson, Erythea 1:60. L.A Co. 



Abrams, Fl LA 436. Common in wet 

 places along streams and marshes, es- 

 pecially toward the coast. Flowering 

 nearly throughout the year. 

 LASTHENIA MINIMA Suks. 



Suksdorf, W 15:50. 



Wie L. grlaberrima DC., aber kleiner, 

 nur 56 cm. hoch. Die obersten Blat- 

 ter oft sparsam behaart. Kopfchen- 

 stiele etwa 2 bis 3mal solang wie die 

 Kopfchen, meistens kiirzer als die 

 Blatter, ziemlich dicht bedeckt mit 

 .vollichtan Haaren. Die- 5-6 Zahne des 

 Hiillkelches ebenfalis behaart, auf 

 beiden Flachen, aber dichter an den 

 Randern, Kroner.rohre etwas drtisig. 

 In sehr dichten Massen an seichten 

 Tumpeln nahe bei Dalles am Kolum- 

 biastrom, 4. Mai 1898. (Meine Nr. 2683). 



CICHOHIUM IXTYBUS L. 



Chicory. Per from a long deep tap- 

 rt: pt.s slightly hispid, stiff, branched, 

 3-y dm hi; basal Ivs spreading on the 

 ground, runciriate-pinnatifld, spatulate 

 in outline, 8-16 cm long, narrowed into 

 long petioles; upper Ivs much smaller, 

 lanceolate or oblong, lobed or entire, 

 clasping or auricled at base; hds num, 

 25-40 mm broad, 1-4 together in ses- 

 sile clusters on the nearly naked or 

 bracted branches: fls bright bl, rare- 

 ly w. 



Abrams, Fl LA 444, occasional in 

 waste places. 

 Genn* MAL.ACOTHRIX De Candolle. 



Ann or per herbs with alt or basal 

 mostly pinnatifid Ivs and long-pedun- 

 cled panicled or solitary hds of y, rare- 

 ly \v fls: inv campanulate, its principal 

 bracts in 1-2 series, equal or nearly so, 



with several series of short exterior 

 ones: receptacle flat, naked or bristly: 

 rays truncate and 5-toothed at apex: 

 ak oblong or linear, glabrous, 10-15- 

 ribbed, truncate or margined and 4-5 

 toothed at the summit; pappus bristles 

 in 2 series, the inner naked or min- 

 utely serrulate, slender, coherent at the 

 base and decid in a ring, the outer 

 few. more persistent. 

 MALACOTHRIX CALIFORNICA DC. 



Ann, scapose, 3 dm hi or less; Ivs 

 basal, tufted, lacinately 1-2 pinnatiild 

 into narrow linear lobes when young 

 woolly with long, loose, soft hairs; hds 

 solitary on naked scapes, large and 

 showy," 5 cm broad or less; inv broad- 

 ly campanulate, about 2 cm hi; outer 

 bracts slender-subulate; fls pale y; ak 

 narrow, faintly striate-cpstate; outer 

 pappus of 2 persistent bristles, the in- 

 ner capillary, decid. 



Abrams, Fl LA 448. 



Hall, U 130. 



Sacramento valley to Baja! 

 MALACOTHRIX CLEVELANDI A. Gy. 



An, paniculately branched, 5 dm L 

 or less; sts and branches rather naked; 

 only some of the basal Ivs pinnatifid; 

 hds" num; inv about 6 mm hi, narrow, 

 fowfld; bracts usually p'ish-tipped; fls 

 y; ak oblong-linear, minutely striate- 

 costate, 4-5 of the ribs more promin- 

 ent; outer pappus of 1 persistent bris- 

 tle and a conspicuous circle of narrow 

 w setulose teeth. 



Hall, U 130. 



Abrams, Fl LA 449. Gabriel mts. 



Antioch, Cal: Cruz: CD: Guad. 

 M \LACOTHRIX COULTERI A. Gray. 



An 1-2 ft hi. glabrous and somewhat 

 glaucous, rather leafy: Ivs laciniate- 

 pinnatifld or toothed; the radical and 

 lower cauline oblong or spatulate, ses- 

 sile- upper auriculate-clasping and 

 ovate lanceolate, gradually reduced to 

 bracts: hds terminating the loose 

 branches: ak acutely about 14-ribbed 

 and 4-5-angled, the summit more or 

 less denticulate by the projection or 

 the ribs: 1-2 stouter bristles of the 

 pappus nearlv persistent. 



Gray, PI Pendl 113 (1849). 



Tvpe locality: "California." 

 Cruz; Mohave: Pt Loma. SD'.; CD! Baja. 

 Genus MICROSERIS Don. 



Acaulescent glabrous or slightly pu- 

 berulent an, with basal tufted Ivs pin- 

 natifid with mostly linear and often 

 falcate lobes or entire: hds solitary in 

 long leafless scape-like peds, these 

 nodding in bud, becoming erect in fr: 

 inv narrowly oblong to ovoid or sub- 

 globose: ligules short, y: ak slender- 

 fusiform or cylindric. ribbed, mostly 

 truncate: pappus paleae 5, mostly 

 short, abruptly or gradually passing 

 into the scabrous awn, 

 MICROSERIS CYCLOCARPHA A. Gray. 



Scapes 2-4 dm hi: Ivs narrow, 1-2 

 dm long: hds about 10 mm broad; ak 

 oblong-turbinate, 5 mm long, outer 

 ones w-villous: paleae of pappus ovate, 



