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Plains, foothills, ponetaiey and beds of winter streams, Sonoran Zones; Kansas to Montana, Texas, and 
Arizona south into Mex and also in the hal goat 4 regions of the Old World; introduced in Ca liforni ia scatteringly 
from the Salinas hirer in Monter rey Coun ward to Los Angeles and Ventura Counties; also occurring in 
Fresno and Kern Counties. Type locality: ae eared stated. Aug.—Dec. 
11. ECLIPTA L. Mant. 157. 1771. 
Annual or teal Ww eedy plants, diffuse or erect, strigose or hirsute. Leaves opposite, 
taisceotake to oval, thed or entire. Heads small, radiate, white or yellow, usually soli- 
narrow, mostly filiform or aristiform, subtending but not embracing the achenes. Ray- 
flowers fertile, numerous, more than 1-seriate, the ray small, narrow, entire or 2-toothed; 
disk-corollas funnelform, 4—5-toothed. Anthers cordate at base, with ovate, obtuse, termi- 
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pressed, of the disk bluntly quadrangular, compressed in age, often corky- Perel and 
ee Pappus a short, thick, ciliolate crown, sometimes produced into 1-3 teeth. 
he Greek Ly meaning deficient, referring to the absence of pappus. 
< A genus of about 4 species, in the warmer regions of the world. Type species, Eclipta erecta L. (= Verbesina 
aiva 
5180. Verbesina dissit 5182. Eclipta alba 
5181. Verbesina aiden 5183. Bidens cernua 
