Aplopappus. COMPOSITE. 313 



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

 akenes linear, nearly glabrous : pappus white. — Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 636. 



Near Los Angeles, in a dry river-bed, Bulandcr, 1S73. Head i lines high. Rays 2 or 3 lines 

 Ion". In some of the few specimens seen there are chaffy scales among the Mowers and a transfor- 

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

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



./ 9. A. ericoides, Hook. & Am. 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 cauline filiform and 

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

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

 disk ; its scales ehartaceous, imbricated in few series, linear-oblong, obtuse, witli 

 finely 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. — E r inane- r in micrnpftijlla, Xutt., Are. 



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 : 

 beads 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, Xutt. 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. win us. 



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

 yy\ virgate branches, 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, 10 — 25-fiowered : 



scales of llie oblong cylindraccous involucre imbricated in 3 or 1 series, eharta - 



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- 

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



I' Am. Acad. vi. 541, vii. 354 (var. angustatus), viii. 636. A. resinosus, Gray 



in Hot. Wilkes Exp. t. 10, not of Xutt. 



Dry ridges and sterile plains ; head waters of the Sacramento (Dr. Fir/.-, ri/i-r) ; Mount Shasta 

 at ti,"00 feet (Brewer) ; Sierra Nevada east of the Yosemite, at '.'.7'" 1 feel : Si.ria Valley (/-• iii- 

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

 from two thirds to three quarters of an inch in length, with bright yellow lignlc conspicuous 

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

 BUjelovia Parryitmi Howardii. The figure in the Botany of the Wilkes Expedition does not 

 represent these, although clearly made from a slender specimen of this spi oies. the haves vary 

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



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

 v^ herbaceous branches a span or more in height, minutely glandular-pubescent ami 



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

 mostly terminated with single beads ; 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 t>' 

 9, exserted (or rarely none): disk-flowers 20 i" 30: style-appendages filiform: 

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

 ferruginous. —Afacronema suffruCicosa, Nun. 1. c. 



