340 COMPOSlTJi. Anlennariu. 



Var. pulcherrima, Hook., is often a foot and a half high, with lowest leaves 3 

 to 5 inches long, luid 3 to 12 lines wide; the uppermost reduced to linear or subu- 

 late bracts. 



Not yet detected witliin lliu limits of Culifoniia, the nearest stations being in the lluvullah and 

 Ettil liiunboidt Alountains, Nevada, H^attii/n. The next much resembles it. 



5. A. luzuloides, Torr. & Gray. Silvery-silky : stems slender, 8 to 2U inciies 

 higli : radical und lower leaves IVuni linear-lanceolate to spatulate, obscurely 3-nerved, 

 the others linear: heads small (2 or 3 lines long), n\imerous in a corymbuse cluster: 

 involucre nearly glabrous ; its scales barely brownish at base, all M-ith white (or 

 rarely rose-colored) and rather papery tips, those of the sterile heads very obtuse, of 

 the lertile less so : akenos glandular. — The tyi)ical form, with all the leaves very 

 narrow, is known only in Oregon and Washington Territory. 



Var. argentea, Gray, has all the lower leaves wider, oblanoeolate or even spatu- 

 late, an incli or so long, 3 or 4 lines broad. — Pacif. K. liep. iv. 54. A. argentea, 

 Benth. PI. Hartw. 319. 



Mountains, Upper Sacramento to Mariposa Co., above tlie Yosemite Valley, &c. Biistles of 

 the pappus in the fertile plant very slightly united at base, nmch less so than in the American 

 forms of A. C(irj/alhicu. 



+- +- ASleum simple or braaclicd from a cespUose base, leaj'y : (he heads paaided or 

 racemose and narrow. 



G. A. microcephala, Gray. Silvery-silky : stems slender, erect, a span higli, 

 leafy nearly to the summit : leaves narrowly oblanceolate, or the lower spatulate 

 and the upper linear, above gradually reduced to small subulate bracts : heads small 

 (about 2 lines long) and rather few-howered, numerous in a loose naked panicle : 

 involucre glabrate, of wholly scarious and tlun obtuse scales, destitute of papery 

 tips : akenes very glandular : pappus of fertile flowers not longer than the corolla, 

 of the sterile with much dilated tips. — Proc. Am. Acad. x. 74. 



Sierra Co., Lanmon : first detected in Washoo Valley, Nevada, by Mr. Stretch. Involucre 

 liglit brownish, the tips of the inner scales sometimes rose-colored. 



7. A. Geyeri, Gray. Densely white-woolly : branches barely a span high from 

 a prostrate tufted base, very leafy to the top : leaves narrowly oblanceolate or sjjatu- 

 late, short : heads (3 or 4 lines long) thickish, cylindraceous, the fertile usually few 

 and somewhat spicatcs the sterile liardly more numerous and rather corymbose : 

 involucre woolly below ; Llie inner scales with glabrous obtuse iia[»ery tips, which 

 are either ivory-white or deep rose-colored : bristles of the sterile papi)us gradually 

 and moderately Ihickened upwards. — Ph Pendl. 107, &i Pacif. Iv. lve[). 1. c. 



Northeastern borders of California, Newberry. Sierra Co., Lciamon. Discovered by Getjer in 

 the interior of Oregon. 



35. ANAPHALIS, DC. Eveulasting. 

 Heads discoid, incompletely dia-cious ; viz. the pistillate with filiform 2-4- 

 toothed corollas very numerous, and a few (or occasionally no) hermaphrodite but 

 sterile flowers, with tubular 5-lobed corollas, in the centiHi ; the staminate nearly as 

 in Antennaria. Involucre campanulate, of many ranks of mostly snow-wdiite scari- 

 ous scales. Receptacle flat, naked. Style in the staminate flowers usually 2-cleft 

 merely at the apex. Pappus a single series of capilhuy bristles, unconnected at base, 

 in the sterile flowci-s (at least in our species) slightly thickened upwards. — Peren- 

 nials, all Asiatic (Himalayan, &c.), except one species, with wholly the aspect of 

 Gnaphalium, which is dispersed all round the northern hemisphere, especially 

 through Xorth America, viz. 



