Part 1, 1914] CARDUACEAE : HELENIEAE 5 



6. VENEGAZIA DC. Prodr. 6: 43. 1837. 



Parthenopsis Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad. 5: 100. 1873. 



Perennial herbs with tall leafy stems, somewhat woody at the base, and petioled, alternate 

 leaves with broad blades. Heads large, terminal or in the upper axils, radiate. Involucre 

 hemispheric; bracts in 3 or 4 series, broadly oval, or the intermediate ones suborbicular, puber- 

 ulent, faintly nerved. Receptacle flat, naked, slightly alveolate. Ray-flowers ligulate, fertile; 

 ligules spreading, entire or 2- or 3-toothed at the apex, 7-9-nerved. Disk-flowers hermaphro- 

 dite, perfect; tube glandular-hispid, very short; throat elongate, cylindro-campanulate; limb 

 5-toothed. Anthers obtuse at the base. Style-branches thick, hispidulous, truncate at the 

 apex. Achenes short-linear, angled, striate, muricate, not hairy; pappus wanting. 



Type species, Venegazia carpesioides DC. 



Leaf -blades cordate, crenate; peduncles seldom more than 5 cm. long. 1. V. carpesioides. 



Leaf -blades deltoid-lanceolate, dentate with triangular teeth; peduncles about 



1 dm. long. 2. V. deltoidea. 



1. Venegazia carpesioides DC. Prodr. 6: 43. 1837. 



Parthenopsis maritimus Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad. 5: 101. 1873. 



An erect sparingly branched herb; stem 1-2.5 m. high, often woody at the base; leaves 

 alternate, petioled; blades thin, 5-15 cm. long, 3-12 cm. broad, cordate, crenate-dentate, 

 minutely puberulent, more or less 3-5 -ribbed; outer involucral bracts ovate, entire, herbaceous, 

 the intermediate ones suborbicular, the inner rounded, oval, more membranous and erose on 

 the margin, all indistinctly veined and puberulent; ligules 13-20, about 2 cm. long, normally 

 entire and acute but often irregularly toothed at the apex; achenes angled, about 12-nerved, 

 papillose-roughened . 



Type locality: California. 

 Distribution: Southern California. 



2. Venegazia deltoidea Rydberg, sp. nov. 



An erect slender branched herb; stem 5 dm. high or more, somewhat woody at the base, 

 terete, purplish, sparingly puberulent ; leaves alternate; petioles 2-3 cm. long; blades deltoid-lan- 

 ceolate, 5-7 cm. long, 2-3 cm. broad, thin, puberulent on both sides, dentate with broadly triang- 

 ular acute spreading teeth, except at the entire acute apex; peduncles slender, about 1 dm. long; 

 involucre hemispheric, about 1 cm. high, 1.5 cm. broad; outer bracts ovate with oblong reflexed 

 foliaceous tips, the intermediate and inner ones broadly oval, puberulent, more membranous 

 than in the preceding species, the innermost delicate and cream-colored; ligules 15-18, about 

 15 mm. long and 5-6 mm. broad, entire at the apex; achenes linear-oblong, 12-ribbed, papillose. 



Type collected at Sangal, northern Lower California, April 7, 1886, Orcutt (herb. Columb. 

 Univ.) . 



Distribution : Lower California. 



7. CLAPPIA A. Gray, in Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. Surv. 93. 1859. 



Low undershrubs with alternate fleshy leaves. Heads radiate, solitary, peduncled at the 

 ends of the branches; peduncles slightly thickened below the head. Involucre campanulate; 

 bracts impressed-striate, obtuse, in 3-4 series, those of the inner two subequal, of the outer 

 much shorter. Receptacle convex, setose-fimbiate, alveolate. Ray-flowers pistillate, fertile; 

 ligules linear, 3-dentate at the apex. Disk-corollas numerous, fertile; corollas glabrous; tube 

 cylindric; throat campanulate; limb with 5 oblong lanceolate teeth. Anthers linear, obtuse 

 at the base, with lanceolate tips. Style-branches hispidulous, with ovate tips. Achenes 

 oblong, obscurely 6-10-costate, hirtellous. Pappus of 15-25 barbellate bristles, somewhat 

 squamellate below. 



Type species, Clappia suaedaefolia A. Gray. 



1. Clappia suaedaefolia A. Gray, in Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 

 Surv. 93. 1859. 



A perennial, shrubby at the base; stem branched, striate, 3-4 dm. high; leaves fleshy, 

 1-3 cm. long, linear, or the lower pinnately dissected into 3-5 similar lobes; involucre cam- 



