Baccharis. COMPOSIT.E. 



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linear, mostly entire, narrojved downward; lowest broader, inciselv toothed or laciniate- 

 involucre cinereou-pul,e.ceut : ligule> very M„aU, shorter than the .^tvle and the at leutrth 

 ferruginous pappus. - Spec. iii. 1955 ; Benth. 1-1. Au.,ir. iii. 495. E. mnUUjnus Schultz Bin 

 m \yt. Cauar. ii. ^U8. E Bonaricnsis, UC. Prodr. v. isy, in part. Co.njza ombigaa, wi. 

 Fl Franc. & Prodr 1, c. C . ,,„uata, EU. Sk. u. 323. - ^Va.:e ground.s, coast of S. Carolina 

 to Florida, (lutr. from tropics.) 



-l-_-i- Indigenous weeds; but the common .species now cosmopolitan: heads only 2 lines hieh • 

 involucre almost glabrous : leaves commonly more or less hispid-cibatc. 



*iE. Canadensis, L. From sparsely hispid to almost glabrous : stem strict 1 to 4 feet high 

 with numerous narrowly paniculate lieads, or in depauperate plants only a few inches high' 

 and with few scattered beads: leaves linear, entire, or the lowest spatulate and incised tr 

 few-tootlied : rays white, usually a little exserted and surpas.,ing the stvle-branches _ Sijec 

 ii. 863 ; Fl. Dan. t. 292 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 167. E. paniculatus, Lam. Fl Franc. E.pu- 

 sdlus, Xutt. Gen. ii. 148, a depauperate form. E. striatum, DC. Prodr. v. isg, a strict and 

 setose-hispid form. S,:nedo cihatus, Walt. Car. 208. — Open or waste grounds, throughout 

 temperate X. America, especially the warmer parts. (Xat. in Eu., &c.) 



""E. divaricatus, .Michx. Low (a span to a foot high), diffusely much branched, .somewhat 

 fastigiate : leaves all narrowly linear or subulate, entire : rays purplish, rarely surpassing 

 the style-branches or the pappus. — Fl. ii. 12.3; Nutt. 1. c. ; Torr. & Gray, 1. c— Upea 

 grounds and river banks, Indiana to Minnesota, Nebraska, and Texas. 



50. CON'i'ZA (Tourn., L. in part), Les.,. fXame used liy Dioscorides and 



Pliny for some kind of Fhahaac. supposed to come from kojvoji/^, a flea.) Her- 



baceou.s or some shrubby, of various habit ; what were the oriinnal species belono- 

 to Inuhu &c., those now referred to it are of warm reo-ions, and approach the 

 C(Bnotus .section of Erirjeron. — Benth. & Hooli. Gen. ii. 283. 



■» C. Coulteri, Grat. Apparently annual, a foot or two high, commonly branched, bearing 

 numerous small heads in a mostly crowded thyrsoid leafy panicle, vi^cidlv pubescent or 

 partly hirsute with many-jointed hairs: cauline leaves linear-oblong,- the lower spatulate- 

 oblong and with partly clasping base, from dentate to laciniate-pinnatifid (an inch or two 

 long) : involucre I or 2 lines high, hirsute with rather ^soft spreading hairs, consideraljjy 

 shorter tlian the soft pappus: flowers whitish; the numerous female with an entire corolla- 

 tube barely half the length of the style; hermaphrodite flowers only 5 to 7. — Proc. X^a. 

 Acad. vii. .355, & Bot. Calif, i. 3.32. C. stibdecurrens, Gray, PI. Fendl. 7.s, & PI. 'Wright, 

 i. 102, not of DC Eririr-mn discoir!f-ii.i. Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad. v. 55. E. suhdecurrrns. 

 Gray, Bot. ilex. Bound. 78. — River-bottoms, &c., W. Texas and Colorado to Arizona and 

 California. Much resembling C. subdecurrens, DC, which, from the more developed corolla 

 of the ray, is referred to Eririr-run. but has also a different pubescence. (Adj. Mex.) 



Var. tenuisecta. Greener, extremely leafy: leases pinnately or even somewhat 

 bipinuately parted into linear lobes : heads smaller and very numerous in an ample panicle. 

 — S. Arizona, near Fort Huachuca, Leinmon. Apparently growing with the ordinary form. 



51 . BACCHARIS, L. fXamed after Bncchus. unmeaningly.) — Shrubs, 

 underslirubs. or some perennial herbs ; with alternate s^ple leaves, sometimes 

 reduced to scales, and the branches commonly, striate or sulcate-auifled, bearing 

 small heads of white or whitish or yellowish flowers. A hn^e .Vmericau genus, 

 chiefly tropical and S. American. — Benth. & Hook. Gen. ii. 28 G; Gray, Proc. 

 Am. Acad. xvii. 212. 



§ 1. Pappus of the fertile flowers very copious and pluriserial, elongated in 

 fruiting, soft: akenes 5-10-costate: stem.s herbaceous from a lignescent or more 

 woody base : leaA'es linear, 1 -nerved : receptacle flat and broad, naked. Here 

 also B. jinicea, of S. Brazil {ArrJ>i'iiachne, Cass., Stephananthus, Lehm.), and 

 J3. Seemanni, of ilexico. — Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xvii. 211. 



