W ATSON—Plants of Bernalillo County 
flowers. 
z. @RANDIFLORA, Nutt. (Large-flowered z.) Rough- 
hairy; leaves linear and rigid, 3-nerved at base, connate 
sessile involucre usually 1-3 in. long; ligules 1-2 to 2-3 
in. long. Common on the gravelly hills of the Terrace 
Mesa and also on the bases of the Sandia Mts. A very 
pretty plant with a pungent odor. 
23. LEPacuys, Rab. 
Perrennial herbs with alternate pinnately divided 
leaves, the stems or branches naked above and bearing 
single showy heads with yellow or part-colored droop- 
ing neutral rays, grayish disk, few, small, spreading 
involucral bracts; truncate chaff, thickened and beard- 
ed at tip and partly embracing the flattened and mar- 
gined achenes. 
L. coLUMNARIS, Torr and Gray var. PULCHERRIMA. 
Pretty L. Rough hairy, 1 to 2 feet high, branching 
from the base, terminated by long peduncles bearing a 
showy head; divisions of the cauline leaves 5-9, from 
oblong to narrowly linear, sometimes 2 to 3-cleft. Rays 
commionly 1 in. long or more, yellow (in the species), 
but in the variety with part or the whole of the upper 
surface brown-purple. 
24. e@ymnoztamia, H. B. K. 
Ous herbs with alternate or opposite leaves on the 
same plant, heads of yellow flowers on peduncles ter- 
minating the branches, sterile rays, chaff strongly con- 
cave or embracing the compressed achenes, 
G. MULTIFLORA, Rothrock. Annual 1 to 3 ft. high, 
hairy; leaves from narrowly linear to lanceolate, entire 
or obscurely denticulate. On ‘Rim Rock” of Sandia 
Mts., especially south end. Late Summer. 
25. HELIANTHUS, DL. (SUNFLOWER. ) 
Coarse and stout herbs with solitary or corymbed 
heads, yellow neutral rays; involucre imbricated, her- 
baceous or foliaceous; achenes 4 sided, smooth. 
Annuals, receptacle flat, leaves alternate 
- - - - - - H. ANNUUS. 
Perenmals, receptacle convex, lower leaves usually 
opposite - - - H. PUMILUS. 
H. ANNUUs. ZL. (Common §S.) Tall and rough, 
leaves rough or the lower cordate, serrate; involucral 
bracts broadly ovate to oblong, long-pointed, ciliate; 
disk an inch broad or mbre, brownish; abundant in 
low places in the valley, along the river, acequias, etc. 
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