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hemispheric, broad, the round-ovate bracts imbricated 

 in several series, the outer somewhat foliaceous, the 

 innermost narrow and scarious. Receptacle flat, naked. 

 Ray-flowers many, long, narrow, entire or 3-toothed. 

 Disk-flowers glandular-bearded especially at the base of 

 the tube, 5-angled and many-nerved. Pappus none. 



1. V. carpesioides DC. Stems widely branching, 1.5 m. high 

 or less, glabrous ; leaves thin, ovate-deltoid or ovate-cordate, acute, 

 crenate, 7-10 cm. long, petioled, resinous-dotted beneath; heads 

 terminal and from the upper axils, short-peduncled, about 2 cm. 

 broad ; rays about 15, and about 2.5 cm. long. 



Frequent in the Santa Monica, San Gabriel and Santa Ana Mountains. 



46. PERITYLE Benth. 



Mostly annuals with dentate or palmately lobed 

 leaves, all but the lower alternate, and small or middle- 

 sized heads terminating the branches. Involucre hemi- 

 spheric, its bracts distinct, more or less overlapping, cari- 

 nate-concave and partly embracing the outer achenes. 

 Receptacle flat or concave. Ray-flowers yellow or white, 

 pistillate or none. Disk-flowers yellow, narrow, 4-toothed. 

 Achenes flat, cartilaginous-margined, usually strongly 

 ciliate. Pappus a squamellate or cupulate crown and 

 commonly a slender awn from one or both of the angles. 



1. P. Californica nuda (Torr.) Gray. Somewhat pubescent 

 and viscid-glandular ; leaves roundish-cordate, about 1 cm. broad, 

 incisely lobed, the lobes coarsely dentate ; heads narrowly oblong ; 

 achenes oblong, densely hispid-villous on the margins; pappus 

 none. 



Bluffs along the sea at Santa Monica, Hasse. 



47. BAERIA F. & M. 



Low mostly slender annuals, commonly pubescent, 

 with opposite linear entire or laciniate-pinnatifid leaves, 

 and middle-sized heads of yellow flowers on slender 



