339 



biennial; nuts slender; cup turbinate, 

 very deep. SBer Co! 



Abrams, PI LA 106. 



DC, Prodr 16 pt 2, 67 (1864). 



Coville, CNH 4:197. 



Type locality: "the Am Fork of the 

 Sacramento river," Cal (St Louis ac tr 

 2:396), not Chihuah.ua> 



Watson, bot Cal 2:98. 



Quercus Morehus Kellogg, Cal ac pr 

 2:36 (fide Curran, Cal ac b 1:146, this 

 is a hybrid between Q. wislizeni and Q. 

 Kelloggii), 

 GUTIfiRREZIA DIVERGENS Greent 



Suft'rutescent, 4-7 dm hi, glabrous or 

 merely gianular-scaberulous, the pan- 

 ic-led branches nearly destitute of fol- 

 iage at ft'g time; inv 6 mm hi, obovate- 

 turbinate, their obovate obtuse bracts 

 well-imbricated and with blunt g tips; 

 disk fis 5-7; rays about 5; paleae of U*e 

 pappus 9-12, very unequal, narrow and 

 acute. 



Abrams, Fl LA 394. "Common on the 

 Interior plains and foothills." 

 GRINDEL.IA CAMPORUM Greene 



Herbaceous; sts w and shining, tuft- 

 ed from a per root, about 6 dm hi. gla- 

 brous, very leafy up to the loosely 

 corymbose hcls. even the branches of 

 corymb conspicuously Ify-bracted; 

 basal Ivs almost 0; st Ivs oblanceolate- 

 "'n.ulatp. sessile and clamping-, 5 ...-m 

 long, saliently serrate-toothed; bracts 

 oi 11 in< o-'if.'ines neiriy entire, spread- 

 ing; inv 12-20 mm wide, its bracts with 

 long linear recurved tips; ray~ak ob - 

 SC lively 3-sided with 3 or more pappus 

 awns; disk-ak c^-mpresse:!, obliquel'v 

 biaurculate or unidentate at the su;>i- 

 mi u 



/.I'vams. Fl LA 3'3. 

 GRTNDELIA ROBUSTA Ntttt. 



Sts herbaceous, stout, ascending: 

 from a per root, about 5 dm hi; Ivs 

 broaily cordate-oblong 1 , obtuse, coarse- 

 ly serrate, about 3.5- cm Ion?*, often 2.5 

 cm broad, Subcorlaccpus, pubescent on 

 the margins, otherwise gluforous; lifls 

 very few. largy, corymb-o^ty .1; spaced ; 

 outer bracts of inv rather leafy, the 

 others narrow and squarrose; pappus 

 awns 2. 



ST): Cruz; LA (Davidson). 

 BAERIA AFFINIS A. Gray. 



Erect, sparingly branched, 10-15 cm 

 hi, minutely pubescent, obscurely or 

 not at all glandular; Ivs with filiform 

 divisions; rays 6-8, obrong:, short; inv 

 bracts ovate-oval; pappus of 8-10 ob- 

 long or lanceolate paleae with lacinate 

 setulose margins, fully equaling the 

 cor-tube. some or most of them pro- 

 duced into an awn almost equaling the 

 disk-fls, or in the rays blunt and awn- 

 less. 



Abrams, Fl LA 428. 

 BAERTA TENELLA A. Gray. 



Pappus of 6-10 short and firm quad- 

 rnte or broadly cuneate paleae with 

 the truncate muticous summit denticu- 

 l~t<* or nearly entire, not surpassing 

 t'ln tube of the OOT-. 



\hi-nms, Fl LA 428. Sycamore Grove, 

 Greata. 



340 



Parish Erythea 6:92. Near LA. 

 BAERIA CHRYSOSTOMA F & M. 



Sts slender, freely branching, 2 dm 

 hi or less, hirsute pubescent; Ivs nar- 

 rowly linear, entire; hds 6-8 mm hi; 

 bracts of inv 7-12; rays 7-12, 6-8 mm 

 long; ak clavate linear, slightly con- 

 tracted at the summit, glabrous; pap- 

 pus 0. 



Abrams,, Fl LA 428. Monica mts. 

 VPNSGA2IA CARPLSIOlUlu-ti DC. 



Sts widely branching 1 , 1.5 m hi or 

 less; glabrous; Ivs thin, ovate-deltoid 

 or ovate-coriate. acute, eremite, 7-10 

 cm long-, petioled, resinous-dotted be- 

 neoth; -h-\H terminal an -I from the up- 

 per axils, short-pe.iunclel, abr ut 2 cm 

 broad; rays about 15, and about 2.5 

 cm long. 



Abrams, Fl LA 427. -"Frequent in 

 the Monica, Gabrfel and Santa Ana 

 mts." 



bar.ta Barbara; Cruz; Rra. 

 PIjKCTRITIS MACHOCRRA T. & G. 



Slender, mostly simple, 3-" i hi; Ivs 

 linear or narrowly oblong; spur of cor 

 l^ngp*- !-h-'r> tub*--: fr- i.io p or less his- 

 pid, dorsally carinate, the carina 2- 

 g':OOVCdi; literal winjrs broad, eacht 

 with a more or less obvious lobe at 

 apex, spreading Or incurved. Napa mts* 

 Cal to BajaJ 



Plectritis minor Abrams, Fl LA 382, 



Pleetritls eon^eshi minor Hooker. 



^Tlprir'T^H mpcrocera A. Gray. 

 MILLA BIPLORA Oav. 



*JIexican star-flovv-er : fls pure -waxy-white, 

 2 in diam. np.unlly borne in pairs on lon^ 

 slonder stems frequently lasting 2 we;^ks 

 \rhcn ctit and placed in rases of water. 

 /inlc. 



Evergreen trees with sessile Ivs rip- 

 pe-irina: -?-r9.nke r l bv a. tWiwt o'; th re- 

 tiolc leavinv: cif,?tjiar f-^fT \ ib* 

 smooth branches, more or less ffrt'tersea 

 and emargtnate, bearing etomata only 

 or ma!n j y on th^ Iow* ssrrac3, wiL^i 2 

 ; ingritudtnal r^in-ducta rrrr^tiv cln*e !> 

 the? UPiftt-r-jiiis or 4 tl'.e lov/-^- s!'.'<e: rttan 

 cones oval or cyHndric, scales terminat- 

 ing in a knob, bearing 2 arith. these 

 transversely dehiscent; pistillate cone3 

 erect, the bract much larger than the 

 scale: fr'ing cones oroct. maturing the 

 first year, scales and enclosed or ex- 

 ported membrszjoiis bracts fallfig at 

 maturity from the perststto&t n>:is: sd.^ 

 partly and permanently enclosed by the 

 v-n^^'of the ^w In |f: cotyledons 4-10. Fir. 

 ABtES CONCOLOPc Lfndl. 



Whit a Fir. Often becoming a largs 

 trce with ron.^h grayish bark; Ivs ob- 

 tuse, pa^ g, with stomata on both ^1^3,^ 

 2-3 cm lon.er or on young trees often 5 

 crn long 1 , convex above, somewhat f'-i^- 

 cate; mature cones oblong-cylindric, 8-12' 

 c?n long, 3-4 cm thick, pale g"; scales 

 24-20 mm broad, but little over half a3 

 lonsr: brants short enclo'-'el, truncate or" 

 emarginate, with or without a .^hort 

 mucro; wing of sds oblique, a?, broad ag 

 I.-ng-; coL^'ieduns 5-7. Jac; SBer; Cuya- 



Abram^, VI LA 6. Gabriel nits. 



