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oblong-elliptic ligules 4-8 mm. long; achenes nearly prismatic but narrowed below, angled, 



strigose; pappus of 2-4 awns and about 6 truncate-fimbriate intervening squamellae, or rarely 



wanting and the achenes then glabrous. (Var. tenella is the slender form with small heads 



and ligules and mostly entire leaves; it grows in lighter and scarcely alkaline soil.) 



Type locality: Santa Barbara, California. 



Distribution: Low moist or saline ground, from Bodega Bay, California, to San Quentin, Lower 

 California. 



9. Baeria maritima A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 9: 196. 1874. 



Burrielia maritima A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 7: 358. 1868. 



Armual, with weak and reclining stems, succulent, woolly or loosely villous, especially on 



the margins of the involucral bracts, but often glabrate; leaves oblong-linear, 3-20 mm', wide, 



entire or some sparingly dentate or incised; peduncles often very short but usually 1-5 cm. 



long; involucre hemispheric, about 5 mm. high, its 5-7 bracts broadly elliptic, rather obtuse; 



receptacle conic or rarely somewhat hemispheric, acute, strongly muricate, not pubescent; 



ray-flowers 6-8, the oval ligules rarely exceeding 3 mm. long and scarcely equaling the disk; 



achenes linear-clavate, the surface complet-ely covered by the dense appressed pubescence; 



pappus of 3-5 subulate awns and as many intervening laciniate squamellae. 



Type locality: Farallone Islands, off the coast of middle California. 



Distribution: Coast and adjacent islands of middle California, north to Vancouver Island. 



10. Baeria Fremontii (Torr.) A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 9: 196. 



1874. 



Dichaela Fremontii Torr.; A. Gray, Mem. Am. Acad. II. 4: 102. 1849. 



Burrielia Fremontii Benth. PI. Hartw. 317. 1849. 



Baeria Burkei Greene, Bull. Calif. Acad. 2: 151. 1886. 



Lasthenia conjugens Greene, Pittonia 1: 221. 1888. 



Lasthenia Fremontii Greene, Man. Bay Reg. 204. 1894. 



Lasthenia Burkei Greene, Man. Bay Reg. 204. 1894. 



Annual, very slender, or sometimes slightly succulent, simple to freely branched, erect, 

 0.8-3 dm. high, nearly glabrous below, densely and finely pubescent on peduncles and in- 

 volucres; leaves mostly parted into linear lobes but some of the upper nearly filiform and 

 entire, rarely all entire in slender plants ; peduncles much exceeding the upper leaves ; involucre 

 hemispheric, 4-6 mm. high; bracts 10-12, broadly ovate, acute, overlapping, usually distinct 

 but occasionally united near the base {Lasthenia conjugens) , not keeled, strigose-pubescent at 

 least near the margins, inclined to be deciduous with their achenes at maturity; receptacle 

 subglobose or dome-shaped, low-muricate, densely hirsute; ray-flowers about 10-12, the 

 ligules elliptic and 3-6 mm. long; disk-corollas 2.5-3 mm. long, the tube hirsutulous and glandu- 

 lar; achenes scarcely more than 1 mm. long, prismatic or slightly compressed, black, upwardly 

 scabrous; pappus of 1-4 slender awns and 4 or more short quadrate lacerate squamellae, or the 

 pappus wanting and the achenes then smooth and shining. 



Type locality: California. 



Distribution: Middle California, especially in the Sacramento Valley. 



11. Baeria aristata (Nutt.) Coville, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 13: 121. 



1899. 



Plilomeris aristata Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. II. 7: 382. 1841. 

 Ptilomeris coronaria Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. II. 7: 382. 1841. 

 Ptilomeris mutica Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. II. 7: 382. 1841. 

 Plilomeris antliemoides Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. II. 7: 382. 1841. 

 Hymenoxys californica Hook. Bot. Mag. pi. 3828. 1841. 

 Hyinenoxys californica coronaria T. & G. Fl. N. Am. 2: 380. 1842. 

 Hymenoxys mutica T. & G. Fl. N. Am. 2: 381. 1842. 

 Hymenoxys calva T. & G. Fl. N. Am. 2: 381. 1842. 

 Plilomeris tenella Nutt. VrocVhildi. Acad. '^: 20. 1848. 

 Ptilomeris affmis Nutt. Proc. Phila. Acad. 4: 20. 1848. 

 Actinolepis coronaria A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 9: 197. 1874. 

 Actinolepis anthemoides A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 9: 197. 1874. 

 Actinolepis mutica A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 9: 198. 1874. 

 Actinolepis tenella A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 9: 198. 1874. 



