Baeria. COMPOSITE. 327 



B. Fremonti, Gray, 1. c. Erect, slender, a span or two higli, somewhat hirsute-pnbes- 

 ceut : leaves some narrowly linear and entire, the others palmately or pedately .S-o-parted 

 above into linear lobes : bracts of the broad involucre 10 to 12 : rays as many or fewer, with 

 oval ligules seldom surpa.-.-ing the disk: pappus of about 4 slender a^ft-ns and as many or 

 more numerous narrow suiaU palea;, or rarely none. — Jjuhixta Fremontii, Torr. in PI. Fendl. 

 102. Burrielia (Diclueta) Fremontii, Benth. PL Hartw. 317.— Lower vallev of the .Sacra- 

 mento to San Franci.-co Bay; first coll. by Fremont. 



-B. uliginosa, Gr.it, l.c. A span to a foot or more high, at length loosely branched and 

 diffuse, viUous-tomentose when yonng, commonly glabrate: leaves linear or lisulate (the 

 larger 4 to 10 inches long), laciniate-pinnatifid and the linear segments sometimes again 

 cleft, or the upper occa.~icji)aUy entire; involucral bracts and oblong e.xserted rays 10 to 1-3 : 

 pappus sometimes none, commonly of 2 or 3 stout chaffy aii-ns, and as many or twice a^ 

 many shorter broad and trtmcate laciuiate-fimbriate paleae. — Dichata ujiginosn, Xutt. Traife. 

 Am. Phil. Si K . 1. c. 3S3 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 3S0. — Wet ground or in shallow water, ."-an 

 Francisco Bay to Santa Barbara; first coll. by Coulter. 



Var. tenera, Ge-<.y. Depauperate, on drier soil, 2 to 6 inches high: leaies linear, 

 entire, or some of the lu^^•e^must laciniate : rays oval or oblcjuir. little or not at all exceeding 

 the disk : paleae and awns each usually 2. the former \ ery broad and quadrate, or splitting 

 into 2 or 3. — Proc. Am. Acad. xix. 22. L,rhn,, tenella, Xutt. L c. ; Torr. & Gray, 1. c. — 

 "With the ordinary form : also at Tulare Station, Parry. 



§ 3. Ptilomeeis. Pappus -n-liolly of awned or of muticons and commonly 

 erose paleoe, or .sometimes wanting : receptacle not muricate-roughened, rather 

 scrobiculate : involucral bracts in fruit carinate at centre outside, plicate-<;oncave 

 within, and at length deciduous with the subtended akene, as in § DichcBta: heads 

 of the same : leaves all pinnately or lower ones bipinnately parted into linear 

 and attenuate divisions : not woolly, mosth" somewhat glandular, diffuse. — Proc. 

 Am. Acad. xix. 23. Hymenoxys (Hook.\ Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. ^J'^O, not Cass. 

 Ptilomeris. Xutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. vii. oS:.'. Actinolepis § Ptilomeris. 

 Benth. & Hook. Gen. ii. 399 ; Gray, Pruc. Am. Acad. ix. 197, & Bot. Calif, i. 378. 

 Baeria § Ptilomeris, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xix. 21, 23. 



* Eays 6 to 8, oblong, short-exserted : involucral bracts ovate-oval : receptacle either acutely or 

 obtusely conical, glabrous: heads small (barely 3 lines high): plants a span hi.i,'h, minutely 

 pubescent, obscurely if at all glandular, with filiform-linear divisions to the leaves: the two 

 fdllowing perhaps forms of one species. 



B. affinis, Grkt. Pappus of 8 or 10 oblong or lanceolate paleae %vith laciniate-setulose mar- 

 sins. fullv equalling the eoroUa tube, some or must of them produced into an awn almost 

 equalling disk-coroUa, or in the ray blunt and a«-nless. — Proc. Am. Acad. xix. 23. Ptilomeris 

 affinis, Xutt. PI. Gamb. 174. — S. California, from Los .Vngeles to San Bernardino, Gumbel, 

 \ei-in. Parish. 



B. tenella Gp.-\t, 1. c. Pappus of 6 to 10 short and firm quadrate or broadly cuneate palea?, 

 with the truncate muticons summit denticulate or nearly entire, not surpassing the tube of 

 the corolla. — Ptilomeris tenella, Xutt. PI. Gamb. 173. ArJinohpis tenella, Ijray, Bot. Calif. 

 1. 37S, mainly. — Los Angeles, California, Gamhel, Parry. 



* * Bavs 10 to 15, elongated-oblong, exserted: involucral bracts oblong-lanceolate: receptacle 

 acutelv conical, minute! v and sparsely pubescent : plants minutely glandular-pubescent, diffusely 

 branched, a span to near a foot high, perhaps all varieties of one, the difference being mainly in 

 the pappus. 



B. COronaria Geat, 1. c. Pappus of S to 12 lanceolate or oblong dentictJate palea;, all 

 taperins into awns, little .shorter than disk-corollas, or some in the ray a-n-nle": rays nearly 

 half-inch long. — Ptilomeris coronaria & P. anstata, Xutt. in Trans. Am. Phil. So.-, vii. 352. 

 .Sl.,rt:,i Cali/ornica, Xutt. in garden catalogues. Hijmenoxys Cnlifornira. Hook. Bot. ilag. 

 t. 3S2*: Torr. & Grav, 1. c, with var. coronarii:. Actinolfr'S (Ptilomeris) coronaria. Gray, 

 Proc. Am. Acad. ix. 198, & Bnt. Calif. 1. c. — California, Xultail. Xot since collected, but 

 common in cultivation, especially in France. 



