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Var. leucophyUum, Gray, 1. c. Smaller, a span to a foot high, rather strict : leaves 



narrow, entire or .|Mrin-ly cleft or parted : heads solitary, long-peduuded : Involucre cam- 



pauulate, 4 or 5 lines high, of al.out S oblong bracts : pappus in the typical plant of narro^y 



liuKc. ilate pales, four of tliem tNvice the length of tlie others, but tliis "i^ inconstant. — lialiia 



_ ^t" r„y,/, ,;/,,,. IJC. 1. c. — Brit. Columbia to \. California, and c-a^t to Idaho. 



_ Var. mtegrifolium, Gkay, 1. c. Low, often d^ya^f, cespitose-tufted, 3 to 10 inches 

 high : leaves from narrow ly spatulate or oblanceolate and entire to more dilated and 3-lobed at 

 summit, or at ba:,e and on sterile shoots cuneate and incisely lobed : heads rather long-pedun- 

 cled : involucre, &c., of the preceding, snuietiiiies smaller and of only 6 Ijracts: palea; of the 

 papjjus nlu^tly of same length, about equalling the very glandular but not hirsute corolla- 

 tube: akeue, glabruns, rarely somewhat glaudular-atomiferous near the summit. — 7>,'- 

 cl,.,j./,/Uum inlegnfolium, Hook. Fl. i. 316. 7". ,„„/i:,lorum, Xutt. Jour. Acad. Pliilad. vii. 37. 

 Buhia iniegrijolia, ])C. 1. e.; Gray, Bot. Calif. 1. c. B. muWflora, Xutt. Trans. Am; Phil. 

 Sue. 1. c. .5. /eucop/ijll,,, Torr. & Gray, 1. c., in part. B. cuneata, KcUr.pg in Proc. Calif. 

 Acad. \. 49, a form pa.-^iug into the preceding ^ Rocky: Mountains in Montana and 

 AV\..mlng to Brit. Columliia and along the liigher jjurtious of the Sierra Xevada, California, 

 south to San Bernardino Co. 



■I— -i— Akene< like the corolla-tube glandular: stems less than a foot high, slender. 



E. gracile, Ghat, 1. c. Loosely flocco^e-woolly : leaves -^ i far as known all very narrowly 

 linear and entire (an inch or two long, lialf-line wide) : head on a long slender peduncle : 

 involucre nearly 4 lines high, campanulate, of about 10 oblong bracts : rays about S : re- 

 ceptacle nearly flat, alveolate-dentate: akenes slender, 2 lines long: palea; of the pappus 

 oblong or qnailrate, exceeding the breadth of the akene. — Bahia gracilis. Hook. & Am. Bot. 

 Beech, 'iryi ; Torr. & Gray, 1. c. ; Gray, Bot. Calif., in part. — .S. Idaho, on Snake Eiver, 

 Tolmie. Xot since seen. 



E. W atsoni. Gray, 1. c. Canescent with fine and close tomentum, fastigiately branched : 

 leaves cuneate or spatulate in outline, with tapering slender base or petiole, 3-lobed at sum- 

 mit : involucre 3 lines high, short-campanulate, of li or 7 oval bracts : rays 5 to 7 : receptacle 

 conical, naked : akenes shorter and thicker : pajipiis a crown of truncate laciniate-dentate 

 palea;, decidedly sliorter than the breadth of the akene. — Bahia le'"-"i'l( ilia, Latou, Bot. 

 King E.xp. 1 73, in part. B. gracilis. Gray, Bot. Calif. 1. c, in part. — X. >. evada, at Robert's 

 Station, at 6.000 feet, ]ralsun. 



^ * ^ Annuals, with leaves apparently all alternate, and small pedunculate heads terminating 

 the lax slender brancliL-.- : receptacle conical: pappus a crown of small paleae, not longer than 

 the breadth of the summit of the akene, soinetinn:s yer}' short or obsolete: style-tips conical. 



E, ambiguum, Gk-\t, 1. c. Somewhat loosely floccose-wooUy, or denudate: stems branch- 

 ing from the decidedly annual root, 3 to 10 inches high : lea^ es from sjiatulate to linear- 

 lanceolate (an inch or ]c.~s long), entire, or 3-toothed or lobed, especially the broader 

 sometimes dilated-cuneate lowermost: involucre campanulate, 3 lines high, of 6 to 9 obl'.'i.g- 

 lanceolate bracts, which are either distinct to the li:i>e or lightly coherent for two thirds their 

 length : rays 5 to 9, oblong or oval : tuhe of the corollas glandular-liirsute : akenes pubescent 

 or the inner ones glabrous. — Lasihenia (iJijivj'"iiin) ambigua. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. vi. 

 547, Bahia Wnllucr-i, Gray in Jour. Bot. Xat. Hist. vii. 145, not of Pacif. R. Rep. B. par- 

 viflora & B. [Pseudo-^tnuulnpia) ambigua, Gray, Bot. Calif, i. .3S2. — S. E. California, near 

 Tejon, XantuSy'Tan Horn, Parrij, and near Hot Springs, San Bernardino Co., PariJi. 



144. BAHIA, La<r. (Jnon Francisco Bahi, Professor of Bntany at Bar- 

 celona.) — SufEruticose or mostly herbaceous plants (of Eocky Mcuntain district, 

 Mo.xiio. and Chili), not lanate but in some canescent; with opposite or sometimes 

 alternate leaves, and small or middle-sized pedunculate heads of yellow flowers 

 terminating the branches. — Lag. Xov. Gen. cV: .Spec. 30 ; Gray. Proc. Am. Acad. 

 xi.\. 20. S'ylesiii. Xutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Sue. n. ser. vii. 377, founded on the 

 original Bahia. Species of Bahia, Less. Svn. 238 ; DC. Prodr. v. 656 ; Benth. 

 & Hook. Gen. ii. 402. Achyropappus, HBK. Xov. Gen. & Spec. iv. 257. t. 890, 

 not Bieb. Species of SclikvJiria ik of Villanova, Benth. & Hook. Gen. 403, 404. 



