332 COMPOSITE. Bahia. 



Amauria, Benth, Bot. Sulph., of Lower California, insufficiently known, is per- 

 haps an epapjjose Bahia. 



§ 1. Suffruticose {B. ambrosioides, Lag., of Chili) or herbaceous from a per- 

 ennial sometimes lignescent root : paleas of the pappus 4 to 8, obovate or spatu- 

 late, with rounded or truncate scarious summit, and thickened base or imperfect 

 costa : leaves dissected or cleft, the lower opposite. 



•!' B. oppositifolia, NutT A span or two high, fastigiately branched and many-stemmed, 

 herbaceous to the base, very leafy up to the short-peduucled heads, cinereous with fine close 

 pubescence : leaves mostly opposite, petioled, palraately or pedately 3-5-parted into linear 

 divisions little broader than the margined petiole : head 4 or 5 lines high : bracts of the 

 involucre oblong or oval, comparatively close (the outer obscurely carinate-one-nerved ) : 

 rays 5 or 6, oval, hardly surpassing the disk-flowers : akenes slender, glandular : pappus half 

 the length of the corolla-tube, the palete narrowly obovate, with strongly opaque centre eva- 

 nescent near the summit. — Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 876 ; Gray, PI. Fendl. 99. Tn'chophi/llum 

 oppositifolium, Nutt. Gen. ii. 167. — Sterile hills and plains, Nebraska to Colorado and the 

 borders of New Mexico. 



"tB. absinth.if61ia, Benth. About a foot high from an herbaceous root or barely suffru- 

 tescent base, diffusely branched, tomentulose-canescent, and with sparsely corymbose-panicu- 

 late beads on slender peduncles : leaves opposite and the upper alternate, pedately or 

 sometimes pinnately 3-5-parted into narrowly linear or lanceolate divisions and lobes : 

 involucre more lax ; its bracts oblong-spatulate or lanceolate with narrowed base : rays 9 to 

 12, lanceolate-oblong, much exceeding the disk: akenes slender, pubescent: pappus nearly 

 equalling the proper corolla-tube, its palese more dilated and broadly thin-scarious above. — 

 PI. Hartw. 18. — Arizona, near Tucson, Palmer, Lemmon. (Forms almost as slender and 

 narrow-leaved as the plant of Northern Mexico. ) 



.Var. dealbata, Gray. Perhaps more lignescent at base, more whitened with fine 



pannose tomentum: leaves less divided, commonly only 3-cleft into lanceolate or linear- 

 oblong lobes, or some lower ones oblong-lanceolate and entire. — PI. Wright, i. 121 ; Proc. 

 Am. Acad. xix. 27. B. dealbata, Gray, PI. Fendl. 99. — Dry plains, W. Texas to Arizona. 

 (Adj. Mex.) 



§ 2. Herbaceous from a perennial caudes: leaves all alternate and entire, 

 coriaceous: palese of the pappus about 10, linear-lanceolate, and with a distinct 

 excurrent or percurrent costa. — § Platyschk-uhria, Gray. 



B. nudicaulis, Gray. Cinereous-puberulent and glabrate, upper part of the scapiform 

 stem and involucre minutely glandular, a span or two high : leaves nearly all radical, oval or 

 spatnlate-oblong (an inch or more long), tapering into a slender petiole : lieads solitary or 

 few and somewhat corymbosely paniculate, nearly half-inch high : involucre hemispherical, 

 of about 10 oblong bracts: rays 6 to 9, oblong : pappus fully half the length of the cuneate- 

 linear sparsely hairy akene ; the thin margins of the palea; of the pappus erose, and the 

 short-excurrent awn barbellate-hispidulous. —Proc. Am. Acad. xix. 27. — Schhihria (Platy- 

 schkuhrla] iiitegrifolia, Gray iu Am. Nat. viii. 213, & Proc. Am. .\.cad. ix. 198, excl. var. — 

 Wind River Mountains, N. W. Wyoming, Parry. 



B. oblongifolia, Gray, 1. c. Smaller: stems sparsely leafy almost to the 3-cephalons 

 naked inflorescence : leaves narroivly oblong : head only 4 line's high, narrow : paleiv, of the 

 p_appus firmer, smoother, and with entire edges, little shorter than the glabrate akene. — 

 Schkuhrla inlegrifolid, var. oblongifolia, Gray in Am. Nat, 1. c. — On the San Juan and Rio 

 Colorado, near their junction, S. E. Utah or adjacent Colorado, Newberry, Brandegee. 



§ 3. Annuals, with once or twice palmately or pedately divided leaves : akenes 

 mostly hirsute along the slender attenuate base, at least on the angles. — Achyro- 

 pappus, IIBK. 



* Leaves mainly opposite, at least all tlie lower ones, their divisions narrowlv line.ir: pappus of 

 broad and very obtuse paleie, scarious above, callous-thickened and opaque at base, as in § 1: 

 ray-flowers occasionally wanting. — Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xix. 27. Achi/ropoppus, H13K., DC. 



