aioenadis. COMPOSIT.E. 341 



X. 74, & Bot. Calif, i. 390, with var. integrifoUa, which is more slender, fewer-flowered and 

 usually entire-leaved. C. glahriuscula, var. megace/Aala. (,thy. Jour. Bot. Nat. Ilijt Sue 

 vu. 146, not Pacif. E. Rep. — Eastern California and adjacent Nevada, from Tejon to Car- 

 son, &c., Dr. Horn, Aii<lerson, Lemmon. 



-C. macrdntha, Eatox. a span high, rather simplv branched from the l.asp canescentlv 

 t.jmentulose, partly glabrato : leaves short, with linear or oblong-linear lobes usuallv ap- 

 proximate : heads 12-20-flowered, mostly shnrt-peduncled, or the earlier on longer naked 

 peduncles from near the base of the stem : bracts of the involucre thinnish, more or less 

 tomentose ; coroUas haH to three-fourths inch long, narrow, externally pubcralent, aU alike ; 

 the 5 short teeth Unear-obloiig, ascending or barely spreading : antliers whollv included in 

 the throat, the tips lanceolate: pap]ju» of 4 Unear-oblong palea;-. barely half the 'length of the 

 corolla, and 2 to 4 very short cuneate-oblong ones, but these occasionallv obsolete or wanting. 

 — Bot. King Exp. 171, t. IS ; Gray, Bot. Calif. 1. c — Hills in the desert region, W. Xevada 

 to S. Utah and the Jlohave in California; first coU. by Watson. 



4- -I- -I- 4- Marginal corollas not distinctly larger than nor different from the others (the 

 lobes if slightly larger still regular): bracts of man\-flowered involucre linear or somewhat 

 spatulate, obtuse, sometimes one or twu loose and shorter outer ones: pappus of 8 to 14 mostly 

 equal and large obtuse riakae : biennial, perennial, or suffrutescent phmts : fl. summei-. — Macr'o- 

 carj}hus, Xutt. 



' C. Douglasii, Hook. & .\ex. Canescent with a fine somewhat floccose or pannose tomen- 

 tum, or sometimes early glabrate, a span to a foot or more high from a biennial or more 

 enduring root: leaves mostly of broad outline and bipinnately parted into crowded short 

 and \ ery obtuse divisions and lolies : heads from half to three-fourths inch lung, in larger 

 plants several or numerous and corymbosely cymose : paleae of the pappus from liuear- 

 ligulate to nan-o^xly oblong and from half to three-fourths the length of the cor. ilia, or in 

 marginal flowers shorter and broader. — Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. x. 74, & Bot. Cahf. 1. c. 

 C. JUouglasii & C. achilleorfoUa, Ilook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. 354; Tnrr. & Grav, Fl. 1. c. ; 

 Torr. in Stanslj. Rep. t. 6. Hi/menopappus Douglasii, Hook. Fl. i. 31G; DC. Prodr. v. 658 ; 

 ilacrijrarjihus Duiir/Ui.'iii & il. achillecnfolius, Xutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Sue. u. ser. vii. 37G. — 

 Dry plains and mountains, Mtintaua to Xew Jlexico, west to AVashington Terr, and Cali- 

 fornia. From 8. E. California, Palmer, an incomplete specimen of a peculiar lar^re and 

 glabrate form, with sparser divisions to the leaves, and shorter spatulate-oblong paleoe of 

 pappus. Very variable species. 



Var. alpina. Dwarf, 3 to 5 inches high, consisting of a rosette or thick tuft of leaves 

 with very approximate divisions, and naked or scapiform stems, bearing mostly solitary heads, 

 surmounting the subterranean branches of a multicipital perenniiil caudex or r"(tt.-?tuck. — 

 Alpine region of the Rocky and Cascade ^louutains in Colorado and Wyoming, of the 

 Sierra Xevada, California, and north to Washington Terr. Seems distinct from the fol- 

 lowing. 



"C. Nevadensis, Gray. Very dwarf, in small tufts surmounting filiform branches of sub- 

 terranean rootsti.icks, mostly growing in volcanic scoriae or ashes: leaves small {half to 

 barely inch long), densely white-woollj', crowded, obovate or flabelliforin-cuneate in outline, 

 once or twice piunatifid or parted into obovate or spatulate-linear lobes : peduncles inch or 

 less long, l«aring a solitary rather narrow head. — Bot. Calif., 390. Hi/rnenopappus Vth- 

 densis, Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad. \ 46. — Alpine region of the Sierra Nevada, California, 

 from Shasta and Lassen to the sources of the San Joaquin, Kelhu/f/, Mair, Lmnmon, ic, 



C. santolinoides, Greene, in herb. Subcaulescent perennial: leaves all crowded on 

 short tirfted shoots from a slightly ligneous crown, white-tomentose, linear in outline, with 

 broadish rhachis thickly lje>et with small (line or so long) oblong obtusely few-lobed and 

 crispate divisions : peduncles scapiform, 4 to 6 inches high, simple or once or twice forked, 

 glandular and viscid : head half-inch high, rather narrow: pappus of S or 10 linear-ligulate 

 jialeae, a little shorter than the corolla. — San Bernardino Mountains, above Bear A'alley, 

 S. E. California, Parish. 



C. suffi:utescens, Gkat. Canescfently tomentose, a foot or more high from decumbent 

 woody stems ; leaves pinnately parted into 5 to 7 narrowly linear entire or rarely 1-2-toothed 

 divisions : heads solitary or scattered, on fleiider peduncles, three-fourths inch high : ija]i]iiis 

 of 10 to 13 linear or narrowly ligul.ite-oblong paleae a little shorter than the corolla, ur in 

 the outermost flowers considerably shorter. — Proc. Am. Acad. xvi. 100. — California, on the 



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