Glyplophura. COMPOSITE. 423 



■ M. Cleveland!, Grat. Akenes oblong-linear, minutely striate-co^tate, 4 or 5 of the ril* 

 :>lightly more prominent : outer pappiL-; of one persistent Lristle and a conspicuous circle of 

 narrow white setulose teeth : leaxes narrow, only ,~ome of the radical pinnatitid. — Bot. Calif, 

 i. 433. — From Antioch (Mrs. Curmn) to Santa Barbara and San Diego in California (first 

 coll. by Cleveland) ; also mountains of Arizona. 

 M. obtusa, Bextii. Akenes obovate-oblong, obtusely angled by 5 rather prominent ribs, 

 the others delicate or obscure, the apex somewhat contracted and its border entire : no per- 

 sistent pappus-bristles : remains of tomentum in a.xiL- of leaves, &c. : radical leaves thickish, 

 spatulate-oblong, sinuate-dentate or pinnatifid ; the teeth or lobes short-oblong, sometime^ 

 very obtuse: corollas (white?) in dried specimens ijurjilish-tinged. — Gray, 1. c. M.oUusu, 

 & M. purviflora, Eenth. 1^1. Hartw. 321. Stmrio flocclferus, L)C. Prodr. vi. 426. — Cali- 

 fornia, from Monterey to Humboldt Co. and iu the Yosemite ; first coU. by Douglas and 

 Harlweg. 



* * Suffrutescent-perennial: " flowers yellow." — Malacomerh, SmU. 



M. incana, Tore. & Gray. Low, white-tomentose : leaves in tufts on short basal shoots, 

 pinnatifid, with short lobes: flowering branches seape-like, a few inches high, leariii? one 

 or two rather large heads: involucre broadly campanulate: no persistent pajjpu;-bii>tles. — 

 Fl. ii. 486. Mulacomeris incana^ Xutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. vii. 435. — Island in the bay at 

 San Diego, California, Xuttall, who only has collected it, and in imperfect specimens. 



* * * Somewhat suffrutescent and leafy paniculatel3' branching perennials: flowers white 

 (chan^ng to rose-color ?) : involucre bro;idly campanulate (nearly half-inch high), manj'- 

 flowered; the loose calyculate bracts numerous, subulate, passing into similar bractlets on the 

 peduncle: receptacle obscurely dentate-alveolate, no bristles detected: no persistent exterior 

 pappus-bristles. — LeucoseiiSj Xutt. 



M. Saxatilis, Torr. & Geav. ilinutely tomentose when young, soon glabrate, somewhat 

 succulent, a foot or two high : leaves lanceolate or the lower spatulate, either entire or lacini- 

 ate-jjinnatifid : heads terminating the paniculate branches- akenes narrowly oblong, 10-1 5- 

 costate, at maturity somewhat 4-.5-angled by the stronger ribs : apex slightly contracted, 

 bearing a very short multidenticulate white border. — Gray, Proc. -\ni. Acad. & Bot. Calif. 1. c. 

 St. saxatilis & -V. commutata, Torr. & Graj', 1. c, excl. sj'n. Senecio flocdfirus. Leunoseris 

 saxatilis & L. Californirn, Isutt. Trans. Xm. Phil. Soc. vii. 440, 441. Ilieracium? Califor- 

 nicum, DC. Prodr. vii. 23.5. Sohrhns? Citliforiiicus, Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. 361. — Coast 

 of California at .Santa Barbara and southward ; first coll. by Coulter, Passes on the moun- 

 tains and in the interior district into 



Var. tenuifolia. Early glabrate or glabrous: stems slender, not succulent, 2 to 4 

 feet high, with long and slender loosely-paniculate branches, bearing slender-pedunculate 

 heads (of equal or smaller size) : leaves narrowly lanceolate to linear, or on branchlets 

 almost filiform. — M. tenuifolia, Torr. & Gray, 1. c. ; Gray, Bot. Calif. 1. c. Leucoseris taiui- 

 fo'ia, Xutt. 1. c. — Jlountain-sides and canons, Sauta Barbara to San Diego, also Tejon, San 

 Bernardino, and Arizona; first coll. by Coulter. 



224. GLTPTOPLEtJRA, Eaton. (rAvTrro's, carved, -Xei-pa. side, from 

 the sculpturing of the akenes. ) — "Winter annuals of the Utah-Xevada desert, 

 many-stemmed and depressed, forming flat and leaf}' tufts, only an inch or two 

 hio-h ; TOth thickish and oblong runcinate leaves on margined petioles : heads 

 rather large for the size of the plant: fl. spring. — Bot. King Exp. 207, t. 20; 

 Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. ix. 209, & Bot. Calif, i. 431. 



-G. marginata, Eatox, 1. c. Corollas white, turning pink in fading, little exserted : lobes 

 and mostly whole margin of the leaves densely scarious-fringed, this white border mainly cut 

 into short olituse teeth, only pectinate-setiform on the leaves subtending the heads. — West- 

 ern borders of Nevada, from the Truckee to Candelaria ( Watson, Leuimon, ShocUey), and to 

 the Jlohave desert in California, Parish, 

 G. setulosa, Gray, 1. c. Corollas yellow changing to pink, much exserted (half to three- 

 fourths inch) : white margin of the leaves less conspicuous, mainly composed of distinct sub- 

 ulate or acicular white teeth. — St. George, S. Utah, to the ilohave desert, Parr;/, Palmer, 

 Parish, &c. 



