138 COMPOSITAE 
Involucre hemispheric, 4-5-seriate, strongly graduate, the phyllaries ovate or oval to 
lanceolate or lance- linear, ke outer ai eg a the inner thinner, dry, usually whitish. 
i ach 
subentire at base with ovate terminal appendages. Style- cami recurved, with subulate 
i chenes s c, 
hispidulous appendages. Achenes slenderly obconi Spore Ngee mpressed, weakly angled, 
densely silky. Pappus of about 20 slender, equal, 1-seriate, eae awns longer than the 
he [ for Michael Schuck Bebb, 1833-1805, student of American willows. | 
A monotypic genus of the Sonoran region. 
A. Bebbia jincea (Benth.) Greene. Sweetbush. Fig. 5202. 
Benth. Bot. Sulph. 21. 1844. 
Ritbia juncea rani. Bull. Calif. Acad. 1: 180. 1885. 
Suffru cape Suge lecrnnag shrub 1 m. high or less; stem and hak eg oy eee slender, 
r lan 
glabrous, pale n, the stem in age whitish-barked. Leaves remote, linea ce-linear an nd 
entire or the sean aa ia and with one or two pairs of hastate lobes 3 cm. long or ae the 
upper y and squ orm; heads about 1 cm. high, ly long-peduncled, the pe- 
e : o (inner) lanceo- 
late or linear-lanceolate, ne acute or apes nate, the outer subherbaceous, SS ee 
i whitish or ia 
ong, pappus whitish, 
Bebbia juncea var. 4spera Greene, ‘Bull, Calif. Acad. 1: 180. 1885. (Bebbia aspera A. Nels. 
273. 1904.) Plant more or less densely hispidulous with te lly tuberculate-based, sometimes deciduous te irs. 
et ae but atid sort to Inyo County, California, and southern Nevada and east to New Mexico 
ona Ana 
16. EASTWOODIA* Brandg. Zoe 4: 397. pl. 30. 1894. 
Xerophytic shrub, somewhat glutinous. Stem white-barked, striate, glabrous, brittle. 
Leaves alternate, essentially linear, entire. Heads discoid, many- -flowered, yellow, solitary 
ofte seri 
Corollas funnelform , the 5 lobes long. Style-branches linear, the acuminate appendages 
equaling the stigmatic portion. Achenes more or less quadrangular, narrowly obpyramidal, 
silky-pilose especially on the ribs. Pappus of 5-6 free, persistent, linear, acute or acumi- 
nate, firm paleae about two-thirds as long as the corolla. [Named in honor of Alice 
cong hae: California — t.] 
1. Eastwoodia élegans Brandg. Eastwoodia. Fig. 5203. 
Eastwoodia elegans Brandg. Zoe 4: 397. pl. 30. 
Rounded desert shrub 3-10 dm. high, erect- Pe ge the herbage minutely and sparingly 
hispidulos, mene econ, pallid. Leaves lin eee or the upper — 
2.5 cm. long, to 3 mm. wide; heads dopeun “sb bose, 1-1.5 cm. thick; involucre 
age at base, hr mm. hist:  arellas about 5.5 mm. long; achenes Shout 2 mm. long; ness 
dry —. up to 2,500 feet, Upper Sonoran com foothills on the west and south sides of San Joaquin 
Vater” ‘Caltfornia, from Alameda County to Santa Barbara County east to Tehachapi Mountains, Kern County. 
Type locality: not definitely stated. April—July. 
17. MELAMPODIUM L. Sp. Pl. 921. 1753. 
Herbs, rarely suffrutescent, glabrous or pubescent, the stems coped dichotomously 
branched. Leaves opposite, entire, dentate or pinnatifid. Heads small or medium, usually 
solitary in the forks and terminal, heterogamous, radiate, the rays pistillate, fertile, the 
disk perfect, sterile; corollas yellow or white. Involucre 2-seriate; outer phyllaries 3-5, 
broad, herbaceous, sometimes connate at base, often accrescent; inner phyllaries as man 
as the ray-flowers, each closely a an ovary, coriaceous and often appendaged, 
deciduous with the enclosed achene at maturity. Receptacle convex, the receptacular 
bracts membranous, eniendine the disk-flowers. Rayscontitie few or several, 1-seriate, 
oblong or broader, entire or denticulate. Disk-corollas regular, tubular, 5-toothed, sterile. 
Anthers bluntly cordate at base, with ovate terminal appendages. Style in ray-flowers 
* Text contributed by David Daniels Keck. 
