r^ria. coMPosriM':. 375 



Californian), barely liairy ; wiMi opposite entire linear leaves, and slender-pcdunelcd 

 heads of yellow flowers terminating the branches. — DC. J'rudr. v. G63, in part; 

 Benth. & Hook. Gen. PI. ii. 398. 



1. B. microglossa, DC. Sparsely hairy, a span higli, l)ranehing : rays 1 to 3, 

 inconspicuous, shorter than their style : appendages to the anthers lanceolate : 

 style-appendages broadly subulate : akenes minutely and sparsely hispid. 



Low mouiu], ill the iioiRhhorliootl df San Francisco. Heads a quarter to a tliinl of an indi 

 in length. 



2. B. leptalea, Gray. Nearly glabrous : stems filiform, mostly simple : leaves 

 very small and narrow : rays 4 or 5, longer than their style but "shorter than the 

 disk : appendages to the anthers almost filiform : style-appendages narrowly and 

 abruptly subulate from a broad base : akenes minutely scabrous-hispid. — Proc. 

 Am. Acad. vi. 546. 



Santa Lucia A[ountain9, on tlie Nacimiento River, Brewer. Receptacle subulate, giudually 

 tapering from a broadish base, little shorter than the involucre. 



67. BiERIA, Fischer & Meyer, Bentli. 

 Head many-floAvered, with 5 to 12 or 14 exserted pistillate rays; all the flowers 

 usually fertile. Involucre campanulate or hemispherical, formed of a single series 

 of herbaceous oval or oblong-lanceolate flat scales. Receptacle strongly and usually 

 acutely conical, rough or muricate with projecting jjoints wliich bear the akenes. 

 Pays oval or oblong, entire or 2 - 3-toothed : disk-corollas with a very slender or 

 filiform tube equalling or longer than the campanulate or cyathiform S-lobed limb. 

 Anthers oblong, bimucronulate or somewhat sagittate at base, tipped with a deltoid- 

 ovate or oblong obtuse appendage. Style-branches tipped with a very short capitate- 

 truncate or flattened and very obtuse appendage, Imt its centre sometimes pointed 

 with a short bristle or rarely a more substantial cusp. Akenes linear, subclavatc, or 

 linear-cuneate, more or less coinpressed and 4 -5-angled or nerved ; those of the ray 

 not at all embraced by the involucral scales. Pappus of a few awns with chaffy- 

 dilated base, or of awned or partly awii-jjointed chaHy scales, or else wholly wanting. 

 — Aimuala (all (Californian), mostly low or small, pubescent (U' almost glabrous; 

 with opposite linear and entire leaves, or else laciniate-pinnatilid into linear lobes, 

 and small or middle sized heads of yellow flowers on slender peduncles, terminating 

 the stem and branches. — Benth. & Hook. Gen. PI. 1. c. ; Gray, Proc. Am. Acad, 

 i.x. 19G. Burrielia, DC. 1. c, oxcl. sp. ; Torr. & Gray, 1. c, excl. sp. J)irh(rta, 

 Nutt. ; Torr. & Gray, 1. c. 



§ 1. Pappus uniformly 7ione : ahenea somewhat rounded at the apex, the areola 

 rather small : leaves all entire. [B<vria, Fischer S:. Meyer.) 



1. B. chrySOStoma, Fischer & Meyer. More or less pubescent, or the margin 

 of the narrow linear leaves sparsely hirsute, a span to a foot and a half high : scales 

 of the involucre 5 to 12, oblong-ovate or oval-oblong, acute : rays as many, oval 

 or oblong : receptacle rather broadly conical but acute : akenes subclavate-linear, 

 glabrous but most commonly glandular. — Fischer k Afeycr, Iiid. Scm. r>ec. 1835, 

 »t Sert. I'otroj). t. 7; l)on.,\nri(. Fl. Gard. ser. 2, t. 3!)5. Hin-rirtln hivsuin, Nutt. 

 Ji. chrj/soMonin, Torr. i^: CJray, l"'l. ii. 10(5, 37'.). 



Var. macrantha {finrrielia. chri/sostovia, var. vvn-rantha. Gray, Pacif M. Hep. 

 iv. 106) is a form strikingly largo in all its j)arts, a foot or more high ; tlie hoacl 

 broad and ample; the obhjug rays from half to three (piaiters ol'nn ituh long. 



