LaijnpUjlla. COMPOSITE. 313 



— Lepidostephanus madioides, Bartl. 1. o. — Open grounds; fl. in spring, throughout the 

 western part of Cahfornia ; first coll. by Douglas. 



126. LAG-OPH"^LLA, Nutt. (Aavos, a hare, <^u'XXov, foliairc) — Slen- 

 der (Pacific N. American) herbs, paniciilately muoli branched, usually more or 

 less cinereous with sericeous pubescence (this so long- and copious on the crowded 

 upper leaves of the original species as to have suggested the generic name, from 

 some likeness to a hare's foot) : leaves narrow, entire or nearly so, the lower 

 opposite, upper alternate, sometimes bearing small tack-shaped glands : heads 

 small, with "pale yellow" or white and rose-tingi-d rays, apparently vespertine. 

 Bracts and chaff promptly deciduous with the mature akenes, leaving the nuked 

 receptacle terminating and little thicker than the peduncle. — Trans. Am. Phil. 

 Soc. ]. c. 390 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 402. 



§ 1. HoLOze')N'iA. Perennial and spreading by creeping scaly rootstocks : 

 pubescence all short: heads naked, scattered, mostly slender-peduncled : corollas 

 white or purplish-tinged: chaff of receptacle connate into a ',(-12-toothed cup: 

 raj^-akenes bearing a shallow entire or denticulate cupule in place of pappus (as 

 sometimes in Layid) : ovary of sterile disk-flowers occasionally bearing 2 to 5 

 nearly capillary naked bristles, flhich are very caducous, sometimes almost equal- 

 ling the corolla. — H(Aozoina, Greene, Bull. Torr. Club, ix. 122, 140. 



L. filipes, Gray. Eootstoiks elongated, rigid, partly sheathed by the approximate pairs 

 of connate scales : stems diffusely branched : filiform oianchlets and peduncles glabrous 

 or sparsely glandular : cauline leaves linear, minutely soft-rillous ; those of the branchlets 

 minute, oblong, commonly beset with short-stipitate dark glands : involucre loosely villous ; 

 its bracts little longer than the clavate-obovate obscurely 5-nerved akene, ^vhich bears a con- 

 spicuous white saucer-shaped cupule. — Pacif. E. Kep. iv. 109, Bot. Mex. Bound. 101, & Bot. 

 Calif, i. 367. Ilciiihuiuu filipes, Hook. & Am. Bot. Beech. 356; Torr. & Gray, i'l. ii. 359. 

 Holozonia filipes, Greene, Bull. Torr. Club, 1. c, where the peculiar characters were pointed 

 out, and not unnaturally taken to be generic. — Rocky hills near streams, Napa Co. to ilen- 

 docino Co. ; first coll. by Doiujlas. 



§ 2. Lagophylla proper. Annuals: heads subtended by bracteal leaves 

 which may sometimes imitate an outer involucre, disposed to be sessile and glom- 

 erate, or at length short-peduncled : no cupule or pappus to the akenes : chaff or 

 bracts of the receptacle mostly quite distinct : stems below smooth and glabrous, 

 or early glabrate. 



» Green or barely cinereous, not canescent : heads loose or scattered : ligules much exserted, pale 

 yellow ? 



L. dichotoma, Bexth. Stem a foot or two high, dichotomously paniculate; the branch- 

 lets puberulent : leaves sparse ; cauline spatulate, occasionally dentate, strigulose-]iubescent ; 

 of the branchlets short, liirsute-ciliate, as also the liroadlsli bracts of the involucre, and with 

 small and sparse or no glands : akenes obo\ate, much obcompressed, no neri e ur keel to the 

 ventral face. — PI. HartV. 317 ; Gr.ay, Bot. Calif, i. 366. — Plains of Feather Hiver, on the 

 Sacramento, and Lake Co., California, Hartuvj, Fitch, Biijelow, Mrs. Curran. 



L. glandtxlosa, Gr.iy. Stem virgately paniculate, slender, a foot or two high: leaves 

 ciuereous-paberulent, linear or the radical spatulate-lanceolate, entire, sometimes even the 

 lower as well as the small and scattered upper ones (also the branchlets) beset with small 

 tack-shaped glands, sometimes these all but or quite absent : bracts of the involucre and the 

 outer subtending bracts resembling the ordinary leaves, and inconspicuously if at all ciliate: 

 akenes nearly of the following. — Proc. Am. Acad. xvii. 219. — Not rare from Butte Co. to 

 Mariposa, ifrs. Bidicill, G. R. Vase!/, temmon, Mrs. Curran, Congdon. Badly named, the 

 glands inconstant in this, and occasioualiy seen in all the species. 



