328 composite. 



B. anth.emoid.es, Gkay, 1. c. More glandular, and with somewhat more filiform divisions 

 to the leaves : pappus wanting. — Ptilomeris (Ptilopsis) anthemoides, ~Nutt. I.e. Hymenoxys 

 calva, Torr. & Gray, Fl. 1. c. Actinolepis (Ptilomeris) anthemoides, Gray, Bot. Calif. 1. c. — 

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



B. mutioa, Gkay, 1. c. Like the preceding, probably the pappose state of it : pappus of 6 to 

 8 quadrate-oblong palese, the obtuse or truncate summit erose. — Ptilomeris mutica, Nutt. 1. c. 

 Hymenoxys mutica, Torr. & Gray, 1. c. Actinolepis (Ptilomeris) mutica, Gray, Bot. Calif. 1. c. 

 — Sau Diego, California, Nuttall, Cleveland. , 



142. SYNTRICHOPAPPUS, Gray. (%iv, 6pt£, mfanros, bristles of 

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

 floceose-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. Rep. iv. 106, t. 15, Bot. Calif, i. 394, & Proc. Am. Acad, 

 xix. 20. 



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

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

 rays 5, rather large : flowers all golden yellow : pappus bright white. — 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^LLUM, Lag. ("Epiov, wool, <f>vXXov, 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 ; Dougl. in Bot. 

 Eeg. 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-lanceolate to linear- 

 subulate. — - Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xix. 24. Actinolepis, DC, Benth. & 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 at summit of branches, then subtended by a leaf or 

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

 ovate-lanceolate, obtuse : leaves small, spatulate, commonly 3-lobed or 3-toothed at summit. — 

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



E. multicaule, Gkay, 1. c. Whitened with rather close cottony wool, sometimes denudate 

 in age : stems slender, at length much branched, a span high, most of the internodes exceeding 

 the leaves: rays 3 to 5, obovate, a, line long: akenes glabrate: pappus of 10 to 15 rather 

 firm narrowly subulate or almost aristiform palese, or sometimes wanting in all or some of 

 the disk-flowers, especially when these are infertile ; then their style is only minutely forked 

 at the apex. — Actinolepis multicaulis, DC. Prodr. v. 656 ; Hook. Ic. t. 325 ; Torr. Bot. Mex. 

 Bound, t. 33. — Southern California to Arizona, from Santa Barbara to Tucson, in low 

 ground; first coll. by Coulter and Douglas. 



