liz COMPOSITAE 
3. Viguiera deltoidea var. parishii (Greene) Vasey & Rose. Parish’s Viguiera. 
Fig. 5153 
Viguiera parishii Greene, Bull. Torrey Club 9: 15. 1882. 
Viguiera deltoidea var. parishii Vasey & Rose, Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. 1:72. 1890. 
_ Branching shrub 0.8 m. high or less with gray-barked stems, the branches slender, densely 
cinereous-hispidulous, often sparsely hispid. Leaves chiefly ss a jus iene the blades 
deltoid-ovate, 1.5-3.5 cm. long, 0.8-2.5 cm. wide, acute or obtu unded to subcordate at 
base, serrate to subentire, triplinerved and y veiny, tuberculate- hispidlous a eland-dotted; pon 
1-6 toward tips of stems and branches, mostly long-peduncled, 1.5-5 ¢ wide ; e 5-9 
high, 2-3-seriate, somewhat gr raduate, t e ohetacies with ovate to rescey -ovate, pea te, ribbed 
body and usu ally longer, ong to ahetate herbaceous tip, ie aeicn Maal strig illose ; rays 
0.8-1 3 mm. lon 
ea 8-10, .5 cm. long; achenes appressed- - appus 52) cok 3 mm. 
long, sada oe ie cher four times as long as the Fal ag feb ise. 
Mesa rocky canyons, Sonoran Zones; southern A ada south through the Mojave, pei Colorado Deserts, 
California, te fee Lower California, east to Arizona and se yell —— also coastal San Diego County, 
California. Type locality: San Luis Rey, San Diego County. April—Sep 
4. Viguiera multiflora var. nevadénsis (A. Nels.) Blake. Nevada Viguiera. 
Fig. 5154 
A. Nels. Bot. Gaz. 37: ae sie 
Comnotomi aiid: Reage Bull. Torrey Club 3 
nevadensis Blake, Contr. pa Savy No. 54: 110. 1918. 
Slender, several stemmed oon from a short rootstock with stems 25-90 cm. high, s simple 
or branched, strigose or strigi TM eeiok opposite below or nearly throug fe on dea 
2 - m. 
i ender- 
peduncled, 1.5-5 cm. wide; involucre 2-seriate, subequa 7 mm. high, the phyllaries linear- 
lanceolate to sig ion ate, herbaceous, acuminate or acute, densely “strigose and strigillose; rays 
10-14, 8-25 mm. long; achenes 1.8-3 mm. long, glabrous, epap 
Mesas and canyons, Upper aa n Zone; southern Utah and a Wi . south to Inyo County, sad 
fornia (Inyo, Argus, and Panamint ixeaes). aie San ion ey County in the Kingston Range and Clark Mou 
tain and eastward laa a Type locality : Meadow Val Wash, Lincoln County, Noved da. May-— Sept 
Nevada Show 
Vigalels ciliate, Robins & Greenm.) gg Contr. Gray Herb. No 54: 918. (Gymnolomia longifolia 
bins. & Gree oc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. 29: 92. 1899. ) An annual wae hispid. ciliate leaves = the phyl- 
— merely h sspid- Shed or also s pzvely hispid dorsally. This native of southwestern Uni sa States and oda: 
cent Mexico fog een found as an adventive plant at Santa Monica <a ‘a Atacelee, Californ 
4. HELIANTHUS* L. Sp. Pl. 904. 1753. 
Usually tall, coarse, annual or perennial herbs. Leaves simple, opposite below, linear- 
lanceolate to ovate, usually petiolate. Heads solitary or corymbed. Involucre 2-seriate 
<< 
cous. Achenes obovate or et rrnerag a ‘ Megs as “a fcneney slightly laterally com- 
pressed. Basic chromosome number, X = 17. [Name Greek, meaning sunflow 
A genus of about 75 species, in North and South oe Type species, Helianthus annuus ‘tae 
Lobes of disk 1] d or purple. 
Annu 
as ovate or ovate-lanceolate, abruptly attenuate; lower leaves usually ovate or lance-ovate, cordate 
at bi 
eegiites lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, gradually attenuate; lower leaves feaedate or Sikes uate, 
cuneate to truncate at base 
Phyllaries hirsute; receptacular bracts generally exceeding disk-flowers in length, as at tips. 
bolandert. 
—— appressed-strigulose; receptacular bracts generally equaling disk-flowers, tips of center 
ost white-hispid or hirsute. 3. H. petiolaris. 
Perennials. 
ogee neve or hare menally pevetate: prone lacking. 
whit iceous-villous; achenes 7-8 mm. Jong. 
oe si 4. H. tephrodes. 
pablo stems, aie ae ir hispid to — achenes 4 mm. long, eg i eric 
Leaves bluish ssile; rhizomes pre 6. H. cili 
—, <l ~s dikecorota pi 
gone ceeding disk-flowers in length; — 1.5-2.5 cm. in —— . H. bolanderi. 
Chaff not exceeding disk-flowers; disks cm. or more in diamet . A. annuus, 
= bh 
* Text contributed by Charles Bixler Heiser, Jr. 
