410 COMPOSITE. Trixis. 



in Proo. Calif. Acad. ii. 182, fig. 53, with some seeming monstrosities. T. corymbosa, Gray 

 in Coll. Pringle, &c. ; but that species should have petiolate leaves and loosely corymbose 



heads. Hills and caiions, S. W. Texas to Arizona, Wright, &c. Founded on Mexican 



specimens with narrow leaves revolute when dry. (Mex.) 



Var. lativiSCUla. Leaves lanceolate, plane, commonly glabrate and greener, from 

 4 to nearly 12 lines wide, thence varying into the narrow-leaved form. — Gray, PI. Wright. 

 ii. 102. T. suffruticosa, Wats. Bot. Calif, ii. 459. — Canons, S. New Mexico to San Diego 

 Co., California, Wright, Palmer, Greene, Lemmon, &c. 



T. frutescens, P. Browne, which the broad-leaved forms of the preceding species nearly 

 approach, was collected by Berlandier near Matamoras, but has not yet come from Texas. 



Tribe XI. CICHORIACB^E, p. 83. 



207. PHALACROSERIS, Gray. ($a\a K pds, bald-headed, and o-e> s , the 

 Greek name of some kind of Cichoriaceous plant). — Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 364; 

 Bot. Calif, i. 423. — Single species. 



P. Bolanderi, Gray, 1. c. Glabrous and acaulescent perennial, with thickish root : leaves 

 lanceolate, entire, clustered on the caudex, slightly succulent : scape perfectly naked, a span 

 to a foot high : solitary head half-inch high : flowers deep yellow, in summer. — California, 

 in wet mountain meadows of the higher Sierra Nevada, Mariposa Co. ; first coll. by Torrey 

 and by Bolander. 



208. ATRICH6SERIS, Gray. ("A0pi£ without hair, and o-tpts, a Cicho- 

 riaceous plant.) — Malacoihrix § Anathrix, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. ix. 213, & Bot. 

 Calif, i. 435. — Single species. 



A. platyph^lla. Winter annual, wholly glabrous, somewhat glaucous : leaves all or 

 chiefly in a rosulate radical tuft, broadly cuneate or obovate, mostly rounded at summit, ses- 

 sile, spinulose-denticulate, somewhat veiny (inch or two long) ; those of stem reduced to 

 very small scattered bracts : stem slender, a foot or two high, at summit deliquescent into a 

 diffuse cymose panicle of few or numerous slender-pedunculate heads: involucre quarter- 

 inch high, about half the length of the corollas (these white or with purple base) : akenes 

 2 lines long, at maturity nearly equalling the narrow and open bracts of the involucre, white, 

 sometimes with 4 or 5 very thick corky ribs and much smaller alternate ones, sometimes 

 more terete and obscurely costate, the truncate summit whoDy destitute of the border of 

 Malacothrix, its areola small: receptacle rather fleshy, scrobiculate. — Malacothrix? platy- 

 phylla, Gray, 1. c. — Gravelly deserts of the Mohave, S. W. California, to the southern bor- 

 ders of Utah, Cooper, Palmer, Parry, Parish. 



209. LAMPSANA, Tourn. (Ancient Greek name, of obscure deriva- 

 tion ; but the Xa/xij/dva of Dioscorides and the Lapsana of Pliny, whose orthog- 

 raphy was followed by Linnseus, were Cruciferous plants.) — Yellow-flowered and 

 leafy-stemmed branching annuals of the Old World, one sparingly naturalized : 

 fl. summer. 



Li. communis, L. (Nipplewort.) A foot or two high, hirsutely pubescent or glabrate: 

 leaves ovate, repand-dentate, or lower lyrate and uppermost oblong : heads loosely paniculate : 

 involucre 2 or 3 lines high. — Koadsides, in a few places, Penn. to New England, more 

 abundant in Canada, also on the Columbia River. (Nat. from Eu.) 



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210. APOGrON, Ell. ('Airaywv, beardless, i. e. no pappus.) — Low annuals 

 of the Southern Atlantic States, glaucescent, mostly glabrous, a span to a foot 

 high, branching from the base, bearing scattered rather small heads on slender 

 peduncles : flowers yellow, in spring and early summer. Leaves variable, lan- 

 ceolate or lower oblong, from entire or repand to dentate, or radical lyrate-ph- 



