192 COMPOSITAE 
— disk-flowers 5-9(-12) ; pappus-paleae rather unequal, all awn-tipped, the longer 4-5.5 mm. 
dio dry hills below 2,000 feet, Upper Sonoran Zone; foothills of the Sierra Nevada from Butte County 
to Tulare County, California. Type locality : Milton, Calaveras County. June—Sept. 
34. BLEPHARIZONIA Greene, Bull. Calif. Acad. 1: 279. 1886. 
Stout, fall-flowering, xerophytic, odor crip with white, densely hirsute stems 
and alli herbage. Uppermost leaves co ee ered with prominent, yellow, tack- 
shaped glands. Heads large, ama ian Phyllaries eodears, not surrounding the subtended 
ray-achenes. Ray-flowers 5-11, white, dorsally veined with rose. Ray- a disk-achenes 
similar, 10-ribbed, densely Boeing all fertile. Pappus of ray very minute, of 
disk of 15-20 plumose narrow paleae united at base. [Greek, blepharis, aa and zone, 
minis from the short reg pappus-paleae i the typical form. | 
A monotypic genus of California 
1 ebsie Sid plumosa (Kell.) Greene. Big Tarweed. Fig. 5312. 
Calycadenia plu Kell. Proc. Calif. Acad. 5: 49. 1873. 
Hemizonia pceeanngs Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 9: 192. 1874. 
Hemizonia plum osa var. subplumosa A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Amer. 12: 312. 1884. 
Blepharizonia lara Ae a gees Seat. 1: 279. 1886 
Blepharizonia plumosa Green 
Blepharizonia pee var. ak Jepson, Man. FI. Pl. Calif. 1095. 1925. 
Stem 3-18 dm. high, aor aap aed branching above, not ee herbage gray-green, densely 
pilose, sparingly glandu lar below eads. Peeves crowded a t base, teak congested above, the 
basal linear, 4-15 cm. long, 5-8 m We wide, sharply incised-serrate to subentire, the cauline entire, 
oad d ve 
ils, cula 
prominent T-glands; heads s eos racemose to loosely paniculate; invol .5-7.5 mm. high, 
subglobose, canescent, with large T-glands and sometimes also small granular glands; disk- 
flowers 10-35; pappus half as he as the dlisk- achenes or longer. 
Dry hills and plains, Upper Sonoran Zone; Solano I San an uin Ronee to Alameda and Stanislaus 
oe California. Sabioit locality: Stockton , San Joaquin County wie Oct. 
kephe zonia mosa subsp, viscida Kec k, Aliso 114. ae ‘Herbaie yellowish green, reosoiigg | 
to et hi spid Sep very conspicuously glandular; in ot Sl hispid; pappus reduced to less than 1 mm 
length and frequently obsolete. Dry open ground below 3 "000 feet, Upp onoran Zanes re ae Coast Range 
frau San Benito County to Kern Comer and also in the Santa es Mountains, Mont erey County, Califor 
Type locality: 3.8 miles south of Tres Pinos, San Benito County. July—Oct. 
35. BLEPHARIPAPPUS Hook. FI. Bor. Amer, 1: 316. 1833. 
Late, vernal, —— a corymbosely branched with alternate, narrowly linear, 
entire leaves. Hea many-flowered, oe ing the branchlets, heterogamous, radiate, all 
flowers fertile Tnvolict 1-Z-siriate the outer phyllaries concave, lightly holding the ray- 
ach rs l-seriate; ligules ai 3-lobed. Di owers each subtend dbya 
dis é less scarious bract, the style linear, hairy, bearing gla s, extremely 
tinct, more or Cc 
short, truncate branches; anthers black. Achenes all alike and fertile, turbinate, silky- 
villous; pappus present or absent. [Name from two Greek words meaning eyelash and 
us 
A monotypic genus of the northwestern United States. 
1. Blepharipappus scaber Hook. Blepharipappus. Fig. 5313. 
ee scaber Hook. Fl. Bor. Amer. 1: 316. 1833. 
Ptilonella a Nutt. Pain. Amer. Phil. Soc. II. 7: 386. 1841. 
Blephari fees s scaber var. subcalvus A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 9: 193. 1874. 
Ptilonella scabra var. subcalva Greene, F1. wad 433. 189 
Stem erect, corymbosely branched from eas the middle or throughout, sometimes pro- 
aber 1-3 dm. hi h, puberulent, becoming glandular upward. aves spreading or ascending, 
pto3c i m unc 
long, rarely more than 1 mm. wide, rapidly reduced to small bracts on the peduncles, 
piste: margins becoming revolute ; involucre oe wage to hemisp " high, glandular- 
beru nd — er ek ray-flowe es white with 3 purple dorsal ve 
Shiety 5S plains and slope ono d Arid Transition Zones; southeastern Washington south Ls bee 
Oregon and adjacent Pica to Srtn yp Hobe California, and northern Nevada. Type locality: ‘Sand 
post of the Columbia.” 
ge tke (A. Gray) Keck, Aliso 4: 114. 1958. (Ble ge scaber var. 
laevis A Ros eee Calif, 1 3o8, Padi B. laevis A. Gray, Bot. Gaz, 13: 73. he tilonella laevis Greene, 
bis . Fran, 433. kt Branchin: subumbellate; leaves all small, becoming ve closely appressed 
on the — pedunc sm 
The usual al ig 
with yellow pine, ‘Treneition Zone; west side -< the C. e Mountains from Lane + see Cem, south * 
Siskiyou and Scott Mountains, northern California. Type locality: not indicated. Collected by Bri 
