304 COMPOSIT.E. 



perhaps indigenous to New Mexico and Arizona, an introduced weed about gardens in the 

 Northern States. In indigenous plants of the Soutliern border (rar. Caracasana, & var. 

 semicalra. Gray, PI. Wright, ii. 98) pappus of the ray much reduced or wanting. (Mex., 

 S. Amer.) 



121. BLEPHARIPAPPUS, Hook. (BXcc^api?, the eyelash, TraTnro^, 

 seed-down, from the fringed palese of the pappus.) — A single but variable species. 

 (Transition to the Madiece.) 



-B. scaber, Hook. Annual, a span to a foot high, loosely branched, puberulent and sca- 

 brous, and with some hispid hairs, above more or less glandular : leaves alternate, narrowly 

 linear, with revolute or involute margins when dry, entire : heads short-peduncled, terminat- 

 ing the paniculate branchlets, 3 to .5 lines high : both rays and disk-flowers white: anthers 

 browuish-purple. — n. i. 316; Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 391 ; Gray, Bot Calif, i. 358. Ptilondla 

 scabra, Natt Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 1. c. 386. — Dry plains and mountains, interior of 

 Oregon, Idaho, &c., to Nevada and the Sierra Nevada, California. 



Var. subcalvus. Gray, Bot. Calif. 1. c. Pappus both of ray and disk obsolete or 

 reduced to hyaline vestiges. — Eastern borders of California, Lemmon, Matthews, &c. 



_— — Var. Isbvis, Gray, 1. c. Slender, with filiform branches, almost smooth: heads few- 

 floweied. — California, Bridges. Taken for Hemizonia in Gen. PI. ii. 395. 



122. MADIA, Molina. Taeweed. (i/at//, the Chilian name of the com. 

 mon species.) — Glandular and viscid herbs, mostly heavy-scented ; with leaves 

 entire or merely toothed, some or all of them alternate ; heads axillary and 

 terminal ; the yellow flowers vespertine or matutinal, closing in sunshine : in 

 summer. — Molma, Chil. ; Cav. Ic. iii. 50, t. 298 ; Don in Bot. Reg. ; Benth. & 

 Hook. Gen. ii. 393. jVtidaria (DC), Madariopsis, Madorella, Amida, Anisocar- 

 pus, & HarpcBcarpus, Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 1. c. 



§ 1. MadXria. Ligules exserted and conspicuous : disk-flowers sterile or 

 partly fertile : disk-corollas pubescent, except in the first species : herbage hir- 

 sute, the upper part minutely glandular. — Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. ix. 188, & 

 Bot. Calif, i. 358. 



* Annual, low and slender, with mostly- alternate leaves and small heads: pappus both to ray and 

 disk-tlowers ! 



M. Yosemitana, Parry. A span or more high : leaves linear, entire : heads slender- 

 pedunculate, 2 lines high : ray-flowers 5 to 10, with ligules a line or two long: disk-flowers 

 3 to 10, sterile : corollas nearly glabrous : bracts of the involucre with short and narrow tips ; 

 of the receptacle 4 to 8, more or less connate by their margins : ray-akeues semi-obovate or 

 slightly lunate, bearing au evident pappus in the form of a ciliolate crown : pappus of the 

 disk-flowers of about 5 sparsely barbellate awns, nearly equalling the corolla. — Gray, Proc. 

 Am. Acad. xvii. 219 — California; near Fresno, Etsen ; at the foot of the upper Yosemite 

 Fall, Parri/ (few-flowered form) ; near Auburn, Marcus E. Jones, a larger form, with 8 to 10 

 rays and about as many disk-flowers. 



* * Perennial, taller, with larger heads and some or most of the leaves opposite, occasionally 

 dentate: a manifest pappus to the disk-flowers, of plumose-lacerate or fimbriate palese. — Aniso- 

 carpus, Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil, Soc. vii. 388. 



- M. Nuttalli, fiRAY. Stem slender, a foot or two high: leaves linear-lanceolate; heads 

 sparsely paniculate, 4 lines high, usually slender-peduncled : involucral bracts S to 12, with 

 short inconspicuous tips: exserted ligules 3 to 5 lines long: only ray-akcncs fertile; these 

 obovate-falcate, much compressed, with sides many-striate luiil nearly nerveless : pappus of 

 sterile disk-flowers of small oblong palea:. — Proc. Am. Aciid, 1. c, viii. 391, ix, 188, & Bot. 

 Calif, i, 358. Anisocarpus madioides, Nutt. 1. c, ; Torr, & CJray, Fl. ii. 403. — AVoods, from 

 Monterey, California, to Brit. Columbia; first coll. by Xiittall. 



"M. Bol4nderi, Gray, 1. c. Stem 2 to 4 feet high : leaves linear (the longer 7 to 10 inches 

 long, 4 lines wide) : heads half to three-fourths inch high : involucral bracts and rays 12 



