328 COMPOSITE. Baeria. 



B. anthemoides, Gray, 1. i;. More glandular, and with somewhat more filiform divisions 

 to the leaves: jjappus wanting.— Ptilomeris {Ptilopsis) unthemoidus, Nutt. 1. c. Hijmenoxys 

 cuha. Ton. & Gray, Fl. 1. c. Actinolepis (Ptilomeris) anthemoides. Gray, Bot. Cahf. 1. c. — 

 San Diego, California, Nuttall, and near Julian City, Bolander. 



B. mutica, Okay, 1. c. Like the preceding, probal>ly tlie pappose state of it : pappus of 6 to 

 '% quadrate'-oblong palefe,the obtuse or truncate summit evose. — Ptilomeris mutica, Xutt. I.e. 

 Hijmenoxys mutica, Torr. & Gray, 1. c. Actinolepis [Ptilomeris) mutica. Gray, Bot. Calif. 1. c. 

 — San Diego, California, Nuttall, Cleveland. 



142. SYNTRICHOPAPPUS, Gray. (2vV, Opti, TraTTTros, bristles of 

 pappus united.)— Low and small Californian and Arizonian winter annuals, 

 floccose-woolly, mostly alternate-leaved, branched from the base; with short- 

 peduncled heads terminating the branches ; flowers all yellow or rays sometimes 

 rose-red. — Pacif. E. Eep. iT.,106, t. 15, Bot. Calif, i. 394, & Proc. Am. Acad, 

 xix. 20. 



S. Premonti, Gray, 1. c. About a span high, loosely floccose : leaves spatulate or linear- 

 cuneate, often 3-lobed at summit : involucre 3 Hues high, of about 5 broadly oblong bracts : 

 rays 5, rather large : flowers all golden yellow : pappus bright wliite. — Desert plains, S. E. 

 California, adjacent Nevada, S. Utah, and Arizona ; first coll. by Fremont. 



S. Lemmoni, Gray. Smaller, slender, lightly woolly, glabrate in age : leaves spatulate or 

 linear, entire : involucre of 6 to 8 narrowly oblong bracts ; rays small, rose-purple and white 

 or white-edged ; disk-corollas pale yellow : pappus none. — Proc. Am. Acad. xix. 20. Acti- 

 nolepis Lemmoni, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xvi. 102. — S. E. California, on the Mohave Desert, 

 Lemmon. Summit of Cajon Pass, Parish. 



143. ERIOPH'^LLiUM, Lag. ('Epiov, wool, rj>vk\ov, foliage, the plants 

 woolly.) — Mostly floccose herbs, rarely suffruticose (of W. N. America and 

 probably in northern parts of Mexico) ; with alternate or partly opposite leaves, 

 and peduncled or sometimes sessile heads ; the flowers wholly yellow, or one or 

 two with rose-purple rays, one rayless. — Nov. Gen. & Spec. 28 ; Dousjl. in Bot. 

 Ken-, t. 1167 ; Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xix. 24. Eriophyllum & Phialis, Spreng. 

 Gen. 631. Trichophyllum, Nutt. Gen. ii. 166; Hook. Fl. i. 315. Bahia, DC. 

 Prodr. V. 656, in part; Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 374, partly, not Lag. Actinolepis, 

 DC. Prodr. v. 655. 



§ 1. Actinolepis. Low and diffuse winter-annuals, with short-peduncled or 

 sessile heads only 2 or 3 lines high : involucral bracts few, distinct to the base, 

 herbaceous or chartaceous in age : anther-tips from ovate-lmceolate to linear- 

 subulate. — Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xix. 24. Actinolepis, DC, Bcnth. & Hook. 

 Gen. ii. 399 ; Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. ix. 198, & Bot. Calif, i. 377, excl. § Ptilo- 

 meris. 



* Heads sessile or nearly so in the forks, or .it summit of branches, then subtended bv a loaf or 

 glomerate, 2 lines high, wholly yellow-flowered: receptacle flat or barely convex: anther-tips 

 ovate-lanceolate, obtuse : leaves small, spatulate, cnmmonlv 3-lol)ed or 3-toothed at summit. — 

 Actinolepis, Ix.'. 1. c, founded on .'specimens with infertile disk-flowers. 



" B. multicaule, (!ray, 1. c. Whitened witli rather close cottony wool, sometimes denudate 

 in ;ige : stems slender, at length much branched, a sp;ui high, mo.st of the iuternoiles exceeding 

 the leaves: rays 3 to 5, obr)vate, a line long: akcncs glabrate: pappus of 10 to 15 rather 

 firm narrowly subulate or almost aristiform palc;e, or sometimes wantinc; in all or some of 

 the disk-flowers, especially when these arc infertile; then their style is onlv minutclv forked 

 at the apex. — Aniuvlcpis multicaulis, DC. I'rcidr. i-. 6.'j6 ; Hook. Ic. t. .'ia.'i ; Torr. Bot. Mox. 

 Bound, t. 33. — Sciiitliern California t(] Arizona, from Santa Barbara to Tucson, in low 

 ground; first coll. by Coulter and Dumjlus. 



