FERNALD. — GENUS PECTIS. 85 
barely 1 cm. long, with the glandular dots irregularly scattered over the 
lower surfaces, and with only 1 or 2 pairs of basal sete: peduncles 2 to 
7mm. long: involucre oblong, 10-12-flowered, 3 or 4 mm. high, of 5 
linear-oblong more strongly costate glandular-dotted bracts: rays 3 or 
| 4 mm. long: pappus of the ray-akenes three awns, the longest 1 mm. 
long, of the disk-akenes a minute squamellose crown: akenes 3 mm. long, 
sparingly pubescent with capitate hairs. —P. multiseta, Vasey & Rose 
_ (misprinted multisecta), Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. i. 72, not Benth. — 
| Lower Carirornta, San Gregorio (Brandegee, 1889), common on sandy 
_ mesas, La Paz (Palmer, 1890, no. 23). 
| §5. Prcripium, Gray. Erect glabrous plants with the leaves entire, 
| naked or sparingly setiferous at base: rays white or whitish becoming 
purple : pappus of rigid smooth awns with or without a few aristiform 
| palew and squamellae, or reduced to a crown of corneous squamellx, or 
even obsolete. — Pl. Wright. i. 83, & Proc. Am. Acad. xix. 48, in part. 
Pectis, Cass. in Dict. Sci. Nat. xxxviii. 202. Pectidium, Less. Linnea, 
vi. 706. 
naked): rays 1 or 2 mm. long: appus consisting only of 2 or 3 corneous 
smooth (rarely a little denticulate) subulate divergent awns. — Pectis, Cass. 
| lc. Pectidium, Less. 1. c. 
. P.linifolia, L. Rather tall and slender, 3 to 9 dm. high, paniculately 
| branched: leaves plane or slightly revolute, linear or linear-lanceolate, 
the largest 5 or 6 cm. long, 5 mm. wide, dark green above, glaucous be- 
neath and covered with many small round glands, with larger elongated 
ones along the margin: peduncles becoming 2 or 3 em. long, with 1 or 
2 minute bracts above the middle: involucre glabrous or minutely puberu- 
lent, 5 or 6 mm. high, 6—9-flowered, of 4 or 5 narrow linear blunt bracts, 
marked longitudinally with black glands and soon becoming involute: 
awns 2 or 2) mm. long: akenes minutely puberulent or glabrate, 4 mm. 
long. — Syst. Nat. ed. 10, 1221 (Sloane, Hist. Jam. t. 149, f. 8) & 
fen. Acad. v. 407 (Tugetes ? 2, Browne, Jam. 319); Gertn. Fruct. 
Sex 171; Lam. Ill. t. 684; Cass. l.c. P. punctata, Jacq. Enum. Pl. 
Carib. 28 & Stirp. Amer. 216, t. 128; L. Spec. ed. 2, 1250; Swartz, 
| Obs. 308; Cass. in Dict. Sci. Nat. ]. c.; Gray, Syn. Fl. i. pt. ii. 362. Pee- 
“dium punctatum, Less. Linnea, vi. 707; DC. Prodr. v. 98. — Yucatan 
(Ga umer, no. 887); Lower Caxirornta, Cape St. Lucas (Xantus, no. 45). 
°mmon in the West Indies and reported from Venezuela and Galapagos. 
Var. marginalis, More slender than the type, ascending, not so 
‘all (the tallest about 4 dm. high) : leaves pale green with remote orange- 
* Slender annuals with thin leaves sparingly setiferous at base (very rarely 
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