^Qg COxMPOSlT.E. Telnuhjmia. 



inch to barely halt' an inch lony), tho wool porsistont : heads coryinhusely chi.stcind. 

 — Delcsa. ic. iv, t, 01). 



Dry hills ami pliiiiiH ; I'loiu Mono l,ako, &(i. {Brcwe.r) tluougli Noviulii to tho inti rior of Oiu/(on 

 iiiul iilului, mill, ill lilt) viir. incniiiii{T. incnnis, Niitt., which luw shorter loaves iiiul lieads) cast- 

 waril to Now Moxico, Culonulo, ami Wyoming. Heads in tho luiger-loavcil I'onii alumt tlinm 

 i|iiailers ul' an iiuh long ; in tho other sonielimea only hall' an inch. Lobes of the corolla nearly 

 linear, tho iniil-nervc or axis connaonly carinato-thickened tVoni the apex downward. Tips of the 

 style-branches usually nearly as ligured iu the plate cited, or the base of the cone distinctly liis- 

 pid, but occasionally the cone is more prominent, acute, and hispid with a few stiti' bristles. In 

 sucli specimens, and also in some others, the ovaries are perfectly glabrous ; in others, the ukenes 

 become glabrous. 



3. T. glabrata, Torr. & (jray. A foot or two high, unarmed, cottony-toiuentose 

 with very white but more deciduous wool : leaves rather tleshy, becoming glabrous 

 in age ; the primary ones linear-subulate and conspicuously mncronate (half an inch 

 long), erect or appressed on the brancin^s of the season; those of tho fascicles shorter 

 and" obtuse: heads coryndwse. — Tacif, li. Jiep. ii. 122, t. 5; Eaton in Uot. King 

 Exp. 193. 



Eastern side of the Sierra Nevada on the borders of the State, Beckwilh, Anderson., Leimncni. 

 Thence tlirough the desert to Salt Lake. Heads and llowers nearly as in the preceding. Style- 

 branches tiiipcd with a very short and obtuso cone. Akones seemingly always densely villous. 



T. NuTTAi.i.ii, Torr. iV (Iray, the spiny species of this section, apparently has not been met 

 with west of Ulah or Main). 



§ 3. Karli/ (/laliratc, uimniinl : Iruvi-n ull rcdaml to subulate (/treii miltn ; tlnm at 

 the summit of the branddets passmg into the scales of the \5 - IS-fioivered 

 campauulate involucre, which thus becomes imbricated! — Lepidospauton, Gray. 



4. T. squamata, Cray. Paniculately branched, 3 or 4 feet high: branches 

 slender : leaves reduced to very snuiU thick and rigid-pointed scales : heads ra- 

 cemose or paniculate : involucre glabrous, of 8 to 12 inner scales in 2 or more series 

 and subtended by several or numerous shorter bracts : lobes of the corolla linear- 

 lanceolate : style-branches Avith acute and minutely hairy tips : akenes rather short, 

 completely glabrous. — Proc. Am. Acad. ix. 2U7. Liuosyris squaviata, Gray, 1. c. 

 viii. 290. 



Var. Breweri, (Jray, 1. c Branches slemler and rush-like, minutely and remotely 

 scaly : involucii; aiiblended ]>y few Lracts. — Carphejihorus junceus, Durand, Tl. 

 lleerm. in Pacif. Ji. liep. v. 8, not of Benth. 



Low hills and canons. Sierra Santa Monica, towards the sea, Bretccr. Tejon Pass, Hecrmaun. 

 The above is the var. Bmuxri. The var. I'nhncri is of the Colorado desert in Aiizomi (Dr. 

 Falnier) : it has more rigid l.ranchlcts, rather closely beset with thickish green scales, those of the 

 pedicels thinner, imbrii ut.'d ami |)assing into those of the involmre, which thus appiius to be 

 many-ranked ; and the nappus is very copious. Mead in both formsabout \ lines long. Although 

 (|uite glabrous, the vestiges of woolin the axils, at Ica.st in var. I'alincri, .show that the plant 

 may have been white-cottony at fust. 



99. LUINA, Benth. 

 Head about 10-flowered, homogamous; tho flowers all tubular and perfect. Invo- 

 lucre campanulate, of 10 or 12 linear-lanceolato dry and rather rigid carinate-one- 

 nerved equal scales, shorter than the llowers. Receptacle Hat. Corollas with a 

 slender tube and u tubular-funneUbrm 5-lobed limb; its lobes ovate- lanceolate, 

 spreading, with mid-nerves more or less evident and extending down the throat. 

 Anthers soon exserted, linear, minutely and mucronately sagittate at base. Style- 

 branches linear-semiterete, minutely papillose-puberulent externally, very obtuse, 

 totally destitute of appendage. Akenes terete, obscurely 10-striate, glabrous, or 

 with a few scattered line hairs. Pappus of copious soft and white scabrous capil- 

 lary bristles. — A cottony-woolly low herb ; with simple stems from a stout woody 



