Aplopappus. COMPOSIT^E. 3 2 3, 



margins : rajs 20 or more, short and narrow : style-appendages subulate-filiform : 

 akenes linear, nearly glabrous : pappus white. — Proc. Am. Ac-ad. viii. 030. 



Near Los Angeles, in a dry river-bed, Bolandcr, 1873. Head 4 lines high. Rays 2 or 3 lines 

 long. In some of the few specimens seen there are chatfy scales among the llowers and a transfor- 

 mation of some of the disk-corollas to rays, which is doubtless abnormal. The species is peculiai- 

 and anomaliius, but belongs to the same group as the next. 



9. A. ericoides, Hook, & Arn, Shrub a foot or two high, much branched, 

 erect or decumbent, glabrous or cinereous-pubescent, more or less glutinous, exces- 

 sively leafy : leaves crowded and fascicled, nearly terete, the cauliue liliform and 

 half an inch or less in length, the fascicled ones only half as long and blunt : heads 

 corymbose and panicled, 7 - 10-flowered : involucre turbinate, shorter tlian the 

 disk ; its scales chartaceous, imbricated in few series, linear-oblong, ol>tusc, with 

 linely ciliate margins, the outermost passing into short and loose subulate bracts : 

 rays 3 or 4, short : style-appendages filiform-subulate : akenes glabrous : pappus 

 soft, tawny. — Ericameria microphylla, Xutt., &c. 



Dry hills, Santa Barbara to San Francisco near the coast : common. A remarkable Heath -like 

 shrub. Heads narrow, hardly half an inch long. 



10. A. resinosus, Gray. Shrubby, a span or so in height, very much branched, 

 glabrous, becoming very glutinous, leafy : leaves filiform-linear, about an inch long, 

 acute, tapering to the base, mostly with some very short ones fascicled in their axils : 

 heads loosely corymbose, smaller than those of the preceding species, but with 

 rather more numerous flowers both of ray and disk, and the scales of the involucre 

 not ciliate : akenes pubescent. — Ericameria resinosa, Nutt. 1. c. 



Not yet found in California, but may be expected on the frontiers of Oregon. Apparently col- 

 lected as yet only by Nuttall, in the Blue Mountains of Oregon, along with A. nanus. 



11. A. Bloomeri, Gray, Shrub a foot or two high, with numerous slender 

 virgate brandies, glabrous, little if at all glutinous, leafy to the top : leaves narrowly 

 linear with tapering base, or spatulate-linear, mucronate, scarcely punctate, an inch 

 or two long : heads narrowly panicled or corymbed, leafy-bracted, 1 - 25-tlowered : 

 scales of the oblong cylindraceous involucre imbricated in 3 or -i series, chartaceo- 

 coriaceous with a greenish midrib and scarious margins ; the inner linear-oblong, 

 thinner, and villose-ciliate, obtuse, a little shorter than the disk ; the outer shorter 

 and abruptly tipped with a subulate foliaceous appendage : rays 2 to 4 or solitary, 

 oblong, conspicuously exserted : style-appendages subulate-filiform and much ex- 

 serted : akenes linear, finely pubescent, glabrate : pappus whitish or ferruginous. — 

 Proc. Am. Acad. vi. 541, vii. 3.54 (var. angustatus), viii. 636. A. resinosus, Gray 

 in Bot. Wdkes Exp. t. 10, not of Nutt. 



Dry ridges and sterile plains ; head waters of the Sacramento (Dr. Pickering) ; Mount Shasta 

 at 6,000 feet (Breioer) ; Sierra Nevada east of the Yosemite, at 9,700 feet ; Sierra Valley (Lem- 

 mon) ; to Kem Co. (Eothroek) ; and in W. Nevada, Bloomer, Anderson, Bolander. Heads 

 from two thirds to three quarters of an inch in length, vai\\ bright yellow ligule conspicuous 

 (lialf an inch long), and at least some of the outer involucral scales leafy-tipped in the manner of 

 Bu/elovia Purnji and HoKxirda. The figure in the Botany of the Wilkes E.xpedition does not 

 represent these, although clearly matle from a slender specimen of this species. The leaves vaiy 

 from almost filiform to a line and a half in width. 



12. A. suffruticosus, Gray, 1. c. Woody at base, sending up tufted almost 

 herbaceous branches a span or more in height, minutely glandular-pubescent and 

 somewhat viscid throughout, leafy to the top, the corymbose or fastigiate branches 

 mostly terminated with single heads : leaves linear with narrowed base, or spatulate, 

 mucronate-acuminate, not rigid : involucre hemispherical or campanulate ; its scales 

 in few series and almost equal in length, lanceolate, acute, thin, slightly glandular, 

 some of the outermost foliaceous-tipped or passing into foliaceous bracts : rays 3 to 

 9, exserted (or rarely none) : disk-Howers 20 to 30 : style-appendages filiform : 

 akenes oblong-linear, compressed, pubescent : pappus rather soft, whitish, at length 

 ferruginous. — Macronema siijj'rulicosa, Nutt. 1. c. 



