Laijia, COMPOSITyK. 3f,f) 



villous wool all straij^lit and erect, a little or sonictiines iiiiicli slioiter than the mthcr 

 slender bristles. — Hook. Ic. PI. t. 32G. Madaroglossa liderotriclia, DC. 



Opon grounds, thiougli the western part of the State, especially in the San Joaijuin Valley. 

 Heads with disk half an inch high ; the large and showy elongated rays three nuarters of an inch 

 long. The copious stijiitate black glands, intermixed with the short hispid and above apparently 



soinew 



The copious stipitate black glands, intermixed with the short hispid and 

 hat viscid bristles, suggested the specitic name. 



3. L. carnosa. Torr. Sc dray. Dwarf and depres.sed, rising only 3 to 5 inches 

 high, more or less hirsute-pubescent : leaves succulent, spatulate or the upper linear- 

 oblong, the lower often sinuate-pinnatiiid : heads small : rays 8 to 10, very short 

 (slightly surpassing the involucre), apparently white : akenes both of ray and disk 

 jtubescent : pap[)us dull whitisli, its slender bristles very sparsely plumose with 

 straight villous hairs to much above the middle. — Afadaro(/lossa carnosa, Nutt. 



Sands of the sea beach, San Diego (NttttaU), Monterey {Parry), Punta de los Reyes, Bigdow. 

 The rays (nowhere stated to be yellow) appear to be white, and they are very inconspicuous. 



* * Rays as well as disk-flowers yellow. 



4. L. hieracioides, Ilook. Sc Arn. A foot or so high, very hispid with long 

 and spriMiding rigid bristles, which ubovo aro sonunvhat viscid : L-aves varying from 

 linear to oblong, laciniate-toothod or almost pinnatifid : heads small : rays U) to 15, 

 small, a little e.xceeding the disk : disk-akenes minutely pubescent : pappus rusty- 

 brownish ; the straight and erect villous hairs rather scanty and little shorter than 

 the bristles. — Madaroglossa hieracioides, DC. 



Open grounds, San Francisco to Monterey, &e. Stem not rarely spotted by the dark -colored 

 bases of the bristles. Loaves mostly only an inch or so in length. Heads only 3 or 4 lines high : 

 rays seldom 2 lines long ; their akenes aometinioa showing rudiments of pappus. 



5. L. gaillardloides, Hook. & Arn. A foot or two high, loosely branched, 

 hispid and glandular like the preceding : leaves lanceolate or linear, the lower com- 

 moidy pinnatiHd : heads pretty large : rays 12 to 20, orange-yellow, cuneate-oblong, 

 twice or tiirice the lengtii of the disk : disk-akenes silky-pubescent : pappus dull 

 white or rather rusty ; the erect and not abundant villous hairs all straight and con- 

 siderably shorter than the bristles. 



Open grounds, common through the western part of the State, especially near San Francisco 

 Bay. Rays in well-developed plants two thirds to three fourths of an inch long, ("half of the 

 receptacle soniotimes (as originally desciil>cd) among the outer disk-llowers, but commonly only 

 bciwccn the disk anil ray. In lloiuiider'H (tollcction fnmi {'"orcst Hill, riiu-iM' Co., are HiMM'iinoMn 

 uiidislingniHJiablo from L. pndni'.lHV.I a of that locality, and ni>parcnlly growing with it, nut with 

 the pajjpus of the present K])ecics. 



6. L. elegans, Torr. Sc Cray. Resembles the preceding, but rather hirsuto than 

 hispid, and the linear cauline loaves less pinnatilid : rays 10 to 12, lighter yellow, 

 obovate-cuneiform, about twice the length of the disk : pappus mostly white ; its 

 copious villous hairs much shorter than the awn-like bristles, the inner crisped and 

 interlaced. — Madaroglossa elegans, Nutt. 



Open grounds, Ukiah to Santa Barbara and T>os Angeles. In the pappus this resembles 

 L. ylandulosa ; and the rays are similar, except in their color and rather larger size. 



§ 2. Pappus, receptacle, glandular herbage, and whole aspect of the preceding section, 

 but the (5 to 25) aivns or bristles of the papjnis naked, or rarely tcanting. — 

 Callichuoa, firay. (Callichroa, Fischer & Meyer.) 



7. L. pentachaeta, Cray. Sparsely hirsute or hispid as well as glandular, 

 loosely l.)ranched : leaves mostly pinnatilid and the lower even bi]Mnnati(id, with 

 long linear lobes : rays largo, golden yellow, olilong-ciineiform : disk-akenes minutely 

 pubescent, soTnetimos almost glabrous ; ])appus of 5 or raroly fewer rigid smootli 

 bristles, or sometimes wanting. — Pacif. \l. Kop. iv. 108, t. 1(5. 



Foot-hills of the Sierra Nevada ; on the Stanislaus {Uiijelnv) and near Forest Hill, Placer Co., 

 ItiiJmiifrr. Heads showy; the numerous apparently deep yellow rays half nn inch or so in 

 length. 



