Er.xjeron. COMPOSITE. 213 



involucre cinereous-puberulent and glandular: rays nearly haU-iuch long, purple: disk- 

 corollas beset with some sparse and short minute hairs : akenes sparsely hirsute : pappus 

 conspicuou.-^ly double; outer setose-squamellate. — Rocky caiions, borders of the Mohave 

 Desert, S. E. California, Parish. 

 E Utahensis, (in.vr. Slender, but rigid, with sparse Ijranclios from dense clumps : leaves 

 narrowly linear or almost filiform (larger ■> inclies l..i]g and barely a line wide) : heads slen- 

 der-peduncled : involucre cauescent : rays fully half-inch long : disk-corollas sparsely hirsute 

 toward the ba=e : immature akenes villous : pappus almost simple ; the outer being scanty 

 and setulose, hardly distinguishable from the villous hairs of the akene. — Proc. Auj. Acad, 

 xvi. 99. E. stenoph'/lliiK, var. ? Mrapleurus, Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 6.50. —Rocky hills in the 

 arid region of S. Vtah, .V/s. TI,ru„i,son, Parry, Palmer. This and the preceding are 

 showy species, nearly related to E. argentatas, all with a close and somewhat imbricated 

 involucre. 



++ ++ +H- ++ Either low or comparalively tall, leafy-stemmed or subscapose: akenes compressed, 

 2-nerved, rarely -j-nerved. 



= Heads radiate: leaves all narrowly linear to filiform, the broadest not over a line wide: pubes- 

 cence either cinereous or obscure. (Also one or two of the following subdivision are sometimes 

 ver}' narrow-leaved.) 



u.. Involucre of the ample head half-inch high, of linear and equal bracts; and rays half-inch long. 

 E. stenoph;^llus, (invY. Green and glabrate, but obscurely strigulose-puberulent when 

 young : stems simple and monocephalons, less than a foot high, naked and pedunculiform at 

 summit : leaves mostly 2 inches long, hardly widening upward ; upper ones sparse and 

 smaller: bracts of involucre somewhat hirsute-pubescent and glandular: ovary villous: 

 pappus simple or nearly so. — Pacif. E. Pep. iv. 42 ; Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 650, & xvi. 89. — 

 Hills on the Pecos, X. AV. Texas, Birjelow. A smaller plant from Fort Wingate, Xew 

 Mexico, MuttJieira, niav belong here, but has merely hirsutulons young akenes. 



b. Involucre only 2 or 3 lines high, of shorter and unequal somewhat imbricated bracts: rays 2 to 4 

 lines long. 



•E. filifolius, NtiT. Canescent or cinereous throughout with very fine close pubescence, no 

 loose hairs : stems slender, a span to two feet high from lignescent slender base or branched 

 rootstock, leafy, usually paniculately branched and bearing several or rather numerou-- beads : 

 leaves liuear-iiliform or quite filiform (some lower ones occasionally dilated upward to a 

 line in width and fiat) : involucre canescent: rays 30 to 50, rarely even 80, purple, violet, 

 or white, 3 or 4 lines long : akenes slightly pubescent or glabrate : pappus simple, of fragile 

 and indistinctly scabrous bristles. — Trans. Am. Phil. tSoc. vii. 328 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 177; 

 Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xvi. 89. Diplopappus fiUfolius, Hook. Fl. ii. 21, is either this or the 

 next. Chri/sopsis canescens, DC. Prodr. v. 328. — Rocky or dry ground, from Brit. Columbia, 

 mostly east of the Cascades, and Idaho, to the Sierra Nevada in California and Nevada ; 

 first colL by Douglas. 



E. peuceptiyllus, Okay. Low, with flowering stems a span or two high from broad 

 depressed tufts, simple and with naked summit or peduncle monocephalons or occasionally 

 forking and 2-3-cephalous, cinereous-puberulent or glabrate : lea^■es filiform or lowest 

 slightly dilated upward (to not over half a line in breadth) : involucre hirsute-pubescent or 

 glabrate: ravs 20 or 30, usually short (2 or 3 lines long), pale blue to cream-color or pure 

 yellow : pappus manifestly double, the outer squameUate. — Proc. Am. Acad. xvi. 89. — Dry 

 hills, from Brit. Columbia (and east to Cypress HiUs, Mucoun) to the Sierra Nevada in 

 California and adjacent Nevada, east to Idaho. 



c. Involucre 3 or 4 lines high, of equal bracts: rays of equal length. 



B. OChroleucUS, Nutt. Low, a span or two high, somewhat cespitose on the caudex, 

 from cinereous-pubescent to glabrate, and attenuate lower part of the leaves not rarely 

 sparsely hirsute-ciliate : stems nsually simple, naked above and monocephalons, occasionally 

 with one or two additional heads : leaves rather rigid, narrowly linear, the radical (2 or 3 

 inches long) often aline wide at the upper part: involucre tomentose or hirsute-pubescent: 

 rays 40 to 60, "ochroleucous," white, or purplish (not known to be yellow) : outer pappus 

 setulose. —Trans. Am. Phil. See. vii. 309; Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 178; Gray, Proc. Am. 

 Acad. xvi. 89, excl. var. E. pumilus, Hook. Lond. Jour. Bot. vi. 242, in part, not Nutt. E. 

 canescens, Parry in Jones Exp. no. 139, canescent form. Diphjpappus linearis, Hook. Fl. 



