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Also in Tijeras Canon. 
H. PumiLUs, Nutt. Hispid and scabrous thruout; 
stems simple, a foot or two high, bearing 5 to 7 pairs 
of leaves and a few short peduncled heads; leaves most- 
ly ovate-lanceolate, acute, entire or nearly so, 1.5 to 4 
in. long, rigid, abruptly contracted at the base into a 
short margined petiole; involucie less than 1-2 in. high, 
white hirsute, its bracts imbricated in about 3 series, 
oblong-lanceolate, acutish; disk yellow. Bear Canon. 
Sept. 
26. VERBESINA. (CROWNBEARD. ) 
Mostly perennial herbs with toothed leaves decur- 
rent on the stem, several to many-flowered heads; most- 
ly yellow. . 
V. ENCELIOIDES, Benth and hook. Branching ciner- 
ous annual; leaves alternate, ovate or cordate to del- 
toid, lanceolate, the petioles mostly winged and auricu- 
late at base; rays numerous and fertile; achenes most- 
ly with short awns. In valley towards Alameda and 
also in Tijeras Canon. 
27. THELESPERMA. Less. 
Perennial glabious herbs, with opposite, finely dis- 
sected leaves; pedunculate many-flowerd heads; 
achenes nearly terete, wingless, beakless, pappus of 2 
short subulate awns. 
T. GRACILE, Gray. Quite rigid, naked above; leaves 
once or twice 3 to 5-nately divided or parted into fili- 
form or linear lobes; bracts of the outer involucre 4 
to 6, very short, ovate to oblong; disk mostly yellow, 
the narrow awns of the conspicuous pappus often near- 
ly as long as the corolla-tube. Common on the Mesa 
and conspicuous in early summer, especially in the 
sandy arroyos. Looks like Hymenopappus flavescens 
but smooth. 
28. BatLEYA. Harvey and Gray. 
Soft and densely floccose-woolly annuals, with alter- 
nate leaves, the lower once or twice pinnatifid; termi- 
nal long-pedunculate solitary heads of yellow flowers; 
disk flowers with glandular bearded teeth. 
B. MULTIRADIATA. Harvey and Gray. 25 to 50 
ligules 1-2 in. long or less. Common in the sandy 
arroyas of the mesa, mostly in the spring. 
29. BAHIA. Log. 
Ours herbaceous, leaves mostly alternate, small or 
middle sized heads on a peduncle; flowers yellow, all 
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