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COMPOSITE 303 



flowers 8-9 as long as the rays; branches of the style linear-subulate, the 

 hirsute appendages much longer than the stigrnatic portion. Plains of 

 the higher mountains, Washington to Nevada. Idaho and Utah. 



C. Bloomeri Greene Eryth, iii, 115 Ap'opapfjus B oomeri Gr>y. A. 



shrub 1-2 feet high with numerous slender virgate branches, glabrous, 



more or less glutinous, leafy to the top: leaves narrowly linear with taper- 

 ing base, <-r spatulate-linear, mucronate, scarcely punctate, 1-2 inches 

 long: heads narrowly panicled or corymbed, leafy- bracted, 8-10 lines 

 high iO-25-flowered: braeta of the oblong eylindraceous nvo lucre imbri- 

 cated in 3 or 4 ranks, chartaceo-coriaceous ith a greenish midrib and 

 scarious margins, the inner linear-oblong, thinner and villous-ciliate, ob- 

 tuse, a little shorter than the disk: the outer shorter and abruptly tipped 

 with a subulate foliaceoue appendage: rays 1-1 or none, oblong, conspicu 

 ously exserted: style-appendages subulate- filiform, much exserted: 

 achenes linear, finely pubescent. IK y ridges of the higher mountains of 

 British-Columbia to i alifomia and Nevada. 



C. resiuosus Ericameria resinosus Nutt. ^hrubby, 6-3 inches high, 

 very much branched, glabrous, becoming very glutinous, leafy : leaves 

 filiform -linear, about an inch long, acute, tapering to the base, mostly 

 with some very short ones fascicled in their axils: heads loosely corym- 

 bose, 5 lines high. 8-12 flowered: bracts of the involucre lanceolate, acute: 

 achenes hirsute when young. On shelving rocks in the Blue Mountains 

 of Oregon. 



11 SOLIDaGO Vaillant. (golden rod) 



Perennial herbs with mostly simple strict or virgate stems,ses- 

 sile alternate canline leaves and small yelluw fl wers in ample 

 terminal panicles. Heads few to many- 11 owered, mostly radiate ; 

 disk-flowers tubular, perfect. Bracts of the involucre imbri- 

 cated, appressed, destitute of foliaceuus or herbaceous tips. 

 Receptacle narrow mostly alveolate. Appendages of the svle 

 lanceolate. Achenes somewhat terete, many-ribbed. Pappus 

 simple, of numerous scabious capillary bristles. 



S. conf'ertiflora DC. Prodr. v. 339. sterns simple, leafy to the thyr- 

 sus, 1-3 feet high, glabrous, angular above: leaves oval-lanceolate, or ob- 

 long-lanceolat .. serrate at the apex, entire below, the lower 3-4 inches 

 long by lines broad, the radical attenuated into long petioles: upper part 

 of the stem and infloresence resinous: heads numerous, in an elongated 

 com onnd thyrsus, 8-1 5-flowered: bracts of the involucre linear, erect: 

 rays few and small On gravelly plains British Columbia to Oregon. 



S. hesperius N. hnmilh car nan" (*ruy. Stems erect. 2-10 inches 

 high, leafy to the inflorescence; leaves spatulate toobovate, 1-2 inches long: 

 heads few in a close glomerule or more numerous in a spiciform thyrsus: 

 bracts of the involucre oblong-linear: achenes pubescent. On the highest 

 peaks of the Cascade and Rocky mountains. 



S. Tolmieaua Gray Syn. Fl. i pt. ii 151. Low. a foot or less high. 

 leafy up to the short and rather broad inflorescence of spiciform some- 

 what corymbosely disposed clusters: leaves thickish and veins very in- 

 conspicuous, linear or lanceolate (2 or three inches long}, entire, rarely 

 \sith some minute serratures, the margins usually scabrous-eiliate, glab- 

 rous and smooth: heads about > lines high crowded in thyrsoid inflorescence, 

 not secund : involucral bracts lanceolate acutish, thin : rays rather small 

 8-15: achenes pubescent. Oregon and Washington to Idaho 



