312 COMPOSITjE. Hemizonia. 



by the same at Milton. — Desiccated plains, from Lake Co. to Merced Co., California; first 

 coU. by Douglas, in immature and depauperate specimens. As polymorphous as the next 

 species. 

 H. multiglandulosa, Gray, 1 c. Hirsute or hispid, also puberulent : tack-shaped glands 

 usually abundant ou the back of the bracts of the involucre and of the receptacle : flowers 

 white, sometimes purplish-tiuged : ray-akenes glabrous or glabrate, short and broadly ob- 

 pyramidal-obovate, glabrous or soon glabrate ; pappus much shorter than the disk-coroUa 

 and sliorter than the akenes, of 10 or rarely 12 unequal paleaj, 5 of them oblong- to lanceolate- 

 subulate and attenuate at summit into an awn-like point, the otliers obtuse or erose-trun- 

 caX^.—Calijcadenia multiglandulosa & C. cephalotes. DC. Prodr. v. 695.— Common in Cali- 

 fornia, especially in the Great Valley and north of the Bay of San Francisco. Piuus into 

 many and ^•arious forms. The type of the species has the heads or clusters sessile and not 

 mucii crowded in the axils of the leaves along the virgate stem or its basal branches : odor 

 said to be disagreeable. 



Var. cephalotes. Stouter, with heads densely glomerate at the summit of the stem 

 and in approximate axils, sometimes appearing later in remoter axils : herbage heavy-sctnted. 

 — JI. cephalotes, Gveene in Bull. Torr. Club, ix. 110. Cali/cadenia cephalotes, 'DC. I.e. A 

 conmion form : odor said to be balsamic. 



Var. sparsa. Slender, lax, a span to a foot high : lower and sometimes all the leaves 

 opposite : heads usually solitary in a few axils ; the terminal glands on the bracts few. — 

 11. Fremonti, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. ix. 191. (Cah/cadenia Fn-monti, Gray, Bot. Mex. 

 Bound. 100.) H oppositifolia, Greene, Bull. Torr. Club, 1. c. — Valley of the Sacramento, 

 Fremont, Mrs. Bidwell, Parrij, &c. 



§ 4. Bi.EPHAiiizoNiA, Gray. Ray-flowers 7 to 10, with 3-lobed ligules : disk- 

 flowers 10 to 20; outer ones subtended by one or two series of linear receptacu- 

 lar bracts : akenes of disk disposed to be fertile and nearly like those of the ray, 

 except in their pappus of about 20 short and stout deiisely plumose awns ; ray- 

 akenes elongated-turbinate, hardly oblique, sericeous-hirsute, about 10-nerved, with 

 broad and depressed terminal areola, this obscurely coroniform-bordered. — Proc. 

 Am. Acad. ix. 192, & Bot. Calif, i. 3G6. 



H. plum6sa, Gray, 1. c. Strongly ill-scented annual, 2 to 5 feet highj paniculately 

 branched, hirsute-pubescent, above most copiously beset with very viscid tack-sliaped 

 glands: cauline leaves linear, entire ; tliose of the branchlets very small, oblong or oval, 

 bract-like ; heads racemosely paniculate, broad (4 or 5 lines long) : involucral bracts short, 

 very glandular : pappus in the original specimens nearly half the length of the disk- 

 akenes. — Cati/cadenia jjluinosa, Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad. v. 49. — Banks and dried beds 

 of streams, near Stockton, California; the original disco^■erer unknown; recently collected 

 by Lr.mmon, &c. 



Var. subplumosa. Pappus only one quarter the length of the disk-akeiies, or even 

 hardly longer than the diameter of their summit: lieads more sparse, terminating loosely 

 paniculate branches. — Near Stockton, apparently same habitat as that of the original 

 species, Parrij, Mrs. Cnrran. 



125. ACHYRACH^NA, Schauer. ("Axvpov, chaii, and acfimiiitm, the 

 botanical name of the fruit of Coniposita=, &e. : relates to the very chatTy pappus.) 

 — Del. Sem. Hort. VrutisL 1S37 ; DC. Prodr. vii. 292; Torr.'ct iii-ay, Fl. ii. 

 392 ; Benth. & Hook. Gen. ii. 396. L<-pidustephinuts, Bartl. Ind. Scm. Hort. 

 Goott. 1837. — Single species, a Californian annual. 



. mollis, ScHAUEK, 1. c. A span to a foot high, erect, villons-pubescent, slightly glandular- 

 viscid : leaves alternate, or the lower opposite, long and narrowly linear, entire or the lower 

 laciniate : heads solitary and long-pedunclcd, terminating the stem and lastif;'iato branches, 

 an incli or less long: corollas whitish or yellowish and turning brownish : pappus and disk- 

 akencs each quarter-inch long: in fruit ami when mature and dry the akenes A\ith their 

 spreading pappus diverging, forming a globular siU ery-chaify head, resembling that of Thrift. 



