with a r spot at base of blade, shallow- 

 ly 7-lobed, 5' broad or less, on petioles 

 twice as long as the blade; fls in rath- 

 er close axillary clusters; bractlets lin- 

 ear; cor p'ish with notched pet, 2 1 /" 

 long, slightly longer than the ex; ex 

 commonly spreading under or about the 

 mature fr; carpels about 11, glabrous, 

 sharply rugose-reticulated and pubes- 

 cent on the back, the margin winged 

 and denticulate. 



Abrams, Fl LA 247. "A common ver- 

 nal weed." 



Type locality: not stated. 



L. Amoen ac 3:416 (1756). 



Malva borealis Wallm. 

 MAIiVA FUSIZ.Z.A Smith. 



Much like M. parviflora in foliage and 

 habit; pedicels longer, ex-lobes mostly 

 closed over fr, pet bluish, 10-15 mm 

 long, surpassing the ex-lobes; ak reticu- 

 late-rugose, margins acute, entire. 



Abrams, PI LA 247. "Along Ballona 

 creek near Mesmer." 

 MALVA ROTUNDIFOLIUM A. Gray. 



Dwarf Mallow: sparsely hispidulous 

 or hirsute; st slender, procumbent, 1-2 

 long, from a large deep rt; Ivs rounded, 

 crenate, slightly or .scarcely at all 5-7- 

 lobed; cor surpassing the ex, pale bl; 

 carpels 14 or 15, puberulent. not reticu- 

 lated on the back or at least not obvi- 

 ously so. 



Genus MALVASTRIM A. Gray. 



Low ann herbs or shrubs, often dense- 

 ly stellate-pubescent: bractlets 1-3 or 

 rarely 0: ex-lobes 5: pet 5, often showy: 

 staminal tube simple, antheriferous at 

 the summit: sty filiform: stig capitate: 

 carpels 5 or more, 1-ovulecl, rarely 2- 

 valved: sd ascending. 

 MALVASTRUM DAVIDSONII Rob. 



Tall shrub or tree-like. 2-4 m hi, 

 densely stellate-tomentose thruout; 

 bractlets stout; Ivs deeply cordate, with 

 narrow sinus, 5-angled or shallowly 5- 

 lobed. varying to 3-lobed, ir crenate- 

 denta.e. 5-7.5 cm broad; infl a dense 

 racemose panicle: bractlets much shor- 

 ter, than the ex-lobes: ex canescent-tom- 

 entose without more naked mucronate 

 tips, faintly 1-nervecl or enervose; pet 

 rose-p, 1.5-2 cm long; carpels stellate- 

 tomentose a,bove. LA Co. 



Abrams, Fl LA 249. 

 MALVASTRTTM DENSIFLORUM S. W. 



Num sm l"'s crowded in sessile hds, 

 forming an interrupted spike. So Cal. 

 CD. 

 MALVASTRUM EXILE A. Gray. 



Sts decumbent, branching from the 

 base, 2-4 dm long, pubescent; Ivs 12-18 

 mm broad, broadly ovate, cordate or 

 truncate at base, deeply 5-lobed, spar- 

 ingly toothed, on slender petioles of 

 about the same length: fls mostly soli- 

 tary and axillary on slender pedicels, 



3 cm long; bractlets 3, linear, persist- 

 ent; ex-lobes lanceolate, acuminate; pet 

 oboyate, p, 4-6 mm long; carpels 12-15, 

 orbicular, glabrous, transversely rug- 

 ose-reticulated. 



Abrams, Fl LA 248. Chatsworth 

 Park. 



Nev; Ut; Merced Co to SD! Quintin 

 (Palmer). Cruz <Br). Usually decum- 

 bent. 



288 



Genus HIERACIUM Linnaeus. 



Per hispid or villous herbs, with alt 

 or basal Ivs," and solitary corymbose or 

 paniculate, sm or middle-sized hds of 

 visually y fls: inv with its principal 

 bracts in 1-3 sr, the outer gradually 

 smaller or abruptly much smaller: re- 

 ceptacle flat, naked or short fimbrillate: 

 ak terete or 4-5-angled, 10-15-ribbed, 

 beakless: pappus copious, of 1-^ rows 

 of simple rather stiff persistent brown- 

 ish bristles. 

 HIERACIUM PARISHII A. Gray. 



Puberulent above with no glandular 

 hairs, Ify up into the narrowly oblong 

 panicle, 3-6 dm hi; lower Ivs shaggy- 

 hirsute, lanceolate, 12-18 cm long, tap- 

 ering to base or margined petiole, with 

 5-8 salient teeth to each margin; upper 

 Ivs linear-lanceolate, entire: peds sel- 

 dom much larger and often shorter than 

 the hds: inv pale, granulose-puberulent, 

 oblong-campanulate, of rather num nar- 

 row acute or acutish bracts; fls 15-30, 

 y; ak columnar, about 3 mm long: pap- 

 pus sordid or dull w. 



Abrams, Fl LA 451. Gabriel aivl SBer 

 mts. Je-Ag. 



Genus CICHORIFM Linnaeus. 

 Erect branching herbs, with alt and 

 basal Ivs, and* large hds of usually blue 

 fls peduncled or in sessile clusters 

 along the branches: inv bracts in 2 

 series, herbaceous, the outer somewhat 

 spreading, the inner erect and subtend- 

 ing or partly enclosing the outer ak: 

 receptacle flat, naked or slightly fim- 

 bnllate: rays truncate and 5-toothed at 

 the apex: anth sagittate at the base: 

 sty-branches* slender, obtusish: ak 5- 

 angled or 5-ribbed, truncate, beakless: 

 pappus of 2-3 series of short blunt 

 scales. 



Genus PTILORIA Rafinesque. 



Ann or per, mostly glabrous, often 

 glaucous herbs, with erect simple or 

 branched usually rigid sts, alt or basal 

 entire or runcinate-plnnatifid Ivs, those 

 of the branches often sm and scale-like, 

 and sm erect hds or usually pink fls 

 paniculate or solitary at the ends of 

 the branches: inv cylindric or oblong, 

 its principal bracts few, equal, scar- 

 ibus-margined, slightly united at the 

 base, with num short exterior ones: fls 

 p'ish opening in the morning: re-, 

 ceptical flat, naked: anth sagittate at 

 base: sty-branches slender: ak oblong" 

 or linear, terete, 5-ribbed. truncate or 

 beaked at summit: pappus of I series 

 of rather rigid plumose bristles. 

 PTILOEIA MYRIOCLADA Greene. 



Greene, jL-ittonia 2:130. 



Parish, Erythea 3:62. "Colorado des- 

 ert, near Whitewater, Riverside Co, Cal, 

 alt ,1,500. The rt appears to be at 

 most only biennial." Greene questions 

 the identity of this plant: "P myrio- 

 clada is even half-shrubby, and could 

 never be mistaken for a biennial. "- 

 Erythea 3:62. 



Genus NEMOSERIS Rafinesque. 



Glabrous and slightly succulent 

 branching an, with pinnatifid Ivs and 

 rather large hds of w or rose fls: inv 



