Carphephoviis. COMPOSlTyR oqt 



1. A. Nardosmia, day. FloocoHo-woolly : stem mtlior hIoiiI, 1 lo 2 iwX high, 

 2-3-lo!ivo(l, ami bnating 4 to 7 largo loosely corymhost; iit-ads : loaves rouud-reiii- 

 forra, 5-9-clert, whiti'-woolly bcnoath, boconiiiig naked above, the lobes eoarsely 

 toothed or cleft: heads an inch long, peduncled, about nO-lluwen-d : scales of tlic 

 catupanulate involucre 12 to 30, lanceolate-linear, aciuninate, a little shorter than 

 the disk : corollas yellowish, with elongated cylindraceous throat : anthers exserted : 

 akenes distinctly striate. — Proc. Am. Acad. viii. G31. Cacalia Nardosmia Gray 

 Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 361. 'J' 



^^ Open woods of Spruce and rine, Sonoma to Humboldt Co., Apiil, May, linlander, Kellogg. 

 "Flowers of the color of yellow beeswax, and exhaling the odor of honey or beeswax." This 

 striking and peculiar plant indeed a])pears to belong (notwithstanding the yellowish flowers and 

 their far greater number in the head) to a small genus otherwise restricted to the mountains of 

 Middle and Southern Europe. The leaves much resemble those of PetasUes palmata. 



5. CARPHEPHOKUS, Cass. Sect. KUHNIOIDES, Gray. 

 Head many-flowered. Involucre campanulate or hemispherical ; its scales imbri- 

 cated as in BricMlia, but less striate. Receptacle flat, AHiiished with some chaff 

 (resembling the innermost involucral scales) among tlio flowers, at least the outer 

 ones, and deciduous with the fruit. Corollas narrow, rather deeply 5-toothed, the 

 teeth oi)on or spreading. Akenes 10-ribbcd, live alternate ribs mostly stronger, 

 often 5-angular. Pappus a single series of equal plumose bristles. — Gray, Proc. 

 Am. Acad. viii. 632. 



This p;onu8 is founded on four sprnMOH of the Southern Atlantic States, with herbaceous mostly 

 H niplo hIciur, alternate l.-aves, mid niiddjo sized IickIm of rosn-purplo IJowrMs, nwHt roHcnibling 

 those of Luilns, the pappus of rather copious and unccnml bristles, which occupy more tlinii oiio 

 senes, and are at most sliort-barbellate. Tiie Californian species have loosely branching stems, 

 sufrrutescent at base, the lower leaves are opposite, the corollas pale and probably yellowish-white, 

 and the pappus, as above described, almost as plumose as that of Kuhnin. 



C. ATRiPLiciFOMUS, Gray, was collected only in Lower California, near Cape Sun Lucas, by 

 XanhiH. It may be known by its laciniate-lobed leaves and the striate glabrous scales of the 

 involucn!. 



1. C. junceus, Benth. Minutely hispid or nearly smooth, much liranchcd : 

 branches long and slender, rush-like, terminated by .solitary or loo.soly corymbose 

 lieads on slender podundos : the few and sparse leaves linear, entire or sparingly 

 lobed : involucro 3 to 4 linos long, rather shorter than llio flowoi-s, the outer scales 

 whito-pubescont and rather rigid: akenes i)uborulent : pappus of about 15 rather 

 rigid plumose bristles. — Bot, Sulph. 21. 



S. E. borders of California, on or near the Colorado, Coulter, Nru-hcrrii, Cnoprr, kc. : apimrently 

 common in the adjacent parts of Arizona, and first made known from Hind's collection in Ix)wer 

 California. The flowers were noted by Dr. Cooper as " yellow," which is not likely. Thev may 

 be cream-color. .... 



TmnK 111. ASTEROIDK/i: 



Heads heterogamous with some marginal flowers ]ii.stillate (mroly neutral) and 

 commonly radiate (ligulate), or else homogamous, the corollas all tubular, or in 

 Baccharis homogamous but dioecious. Anthers appendagod at the apox, ohtu.se and 

 tailless at base. Branches of the style in perfect flowers more or less flat, margined 

 with conspicuous stigmatic lines, tipped with an ajipendage. Roreptarle naked 

 (not chafly), except in one Cnrrthrofji/iie. In Barrharh only fhe flowers are dinc- 

 cious, and the style in staminate flowers not distinctly appendaged and commonly 

 unbranched. Disk-flowers yellow, rarely turning purple. Leaves almost always 

 alternate. 



