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(2) Stems 2-8 in. high, tufted, usually 1 -head- 

 ed ; leaves usually spatulate, tapering to 

 the base, not clasping; tips of the bracts 

 broad and flat M. Pattersonii 



b. Bracts of the involucre erect or with flat re- 

 flexed tips shorter than the basal portion ; 

 leaves mostly gray-hairy, oblanceolate to 

 linear; stems usually much branched, many- 

 headed, .5-2 ft. high M. canescens 

 2. Leaves 1-3-pinnatifid M. tanacetifulia 



Madia Molina 1782 Tarweed 

 (From the Chilian name of the common species) 

 Heads with yellow pistillate rays, the rays rarely lacking, disk-flowers 

 yellow, perfect, achenes flattened, enclosed in the folded bracts, pappus 

 none; receptacle flat or convex, with a single row of bracts enclosing the 

 disk -flowers, involucre ovoid or oblong, angled by the projecting backs of 

 the bracts ; heads axillary and terminal ; leaves mostly alternate, entire or 

 toothed, sticky ; annual. 

 Stems 1-2 ft. high; leaves linear; rays 2-5, sometimes 



none M. glomerdta 



Malacothrix DeCandolle 1838 

 (Gr. malakos, soft, thrix, hair) 

 Heads with yellow or white perfect strap-flowers, achenes oblong or 

 linear, ribbed, 4-5-toothed, pappus of hair-like bristles in 2 rows ; receptacle 

 flat, without chaff, involucre bell-shaped, main bracts in 1-2 rows with sever- 

 al rows of shorter ones ; heads solitary or panicled ; leaves alternate or 

 basal, mostly pinnatifid ; annual or perennial. 



1. Achene crowned by a 15-toothed white border M '. soncholdes 



2. Achene with an entire crown M. Fendleri 



Matricaria Linne 1753 Camomile 

 (Lat; matrix, womb, from its medicinal virtues) 

 Heads without rays in our species, disk-flowers yellow, perfect, achenes 

 i oblong, 3-5-ribbed, pappus a crown, or none; receptacle conic or hem- 

 1 spheric, without chaff, involucre hemispheric, the bracts imbricated in a 

 few rows ; heads solitary on the branches ; leaves alternate, dissected ; an- 

 nual or perennial. 



Stems 6-8 in. high ; leaves 2-3-pinnately dissected ; 

 heads 6-8 mm wide M. discoidea 



