SUNFLOWER FAMILY 219 
Ptilomeris coronaria Nutt. loc. cit. 
Ptilomerts sation Nut, loc. cit. 
Nutt. loc. cit. 
Huthcaeeys calva Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Amer. 2: 381. 1842 
Ptilomeris affinis Nutt. hin! Aca Phila. va 20. 1848. 
Baeria tenella A. Grek: Proc ras. Acad. 19: 23. 1883. Not Dichaeta tenella Nutt. 1841. 
Baeria aristata Coville, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 13: ge Pages 
Baeria parishii S. Amer. Acad. 24: 83. 
Baeria aristata f. mi . M. Hall, Univ. Calif. Pub ah: 3: 473, 1907, 
Baeria aristata f skehnaes th M. Hall, op. cit. 1 
Baeria aristata var, affini. » wall, 2 
Baeria aristata var. affinis f. truncata H. M. Hall, loc. cit 
Baeria aristata var. parishti M. Hall, op. cit. 175 
Baeria aristata v parishii : varia H ll, loc. cit 
Baeria aristata var. parishii uadrata H. M. Hall, loc. cit 
Baeria californica Cha sv mrs romana oes Herb. 5: 68. 1957. 
Sweet- pcented Anoue 1-3,dm, , stems simple or branched above, with ascending o 
spreading branches, m ly with several stems from the base, sparsely (more densely so 
elow the heads) subesceut throughout with slender, spreading, jointed hairs of unequal len 
and aiso glandular-pubescent. Lea 5 ng, typically shorter than the internodes, linear 
or linear-filiform, pinnately parte into iy ‘filifo oe, ; imes bipinna vigorous 
plants and rar arly entire on depauperate en ; peduncles 1-10 cm. long, the involucre 
he aise phyllaries 4— ae ng, ovate-lanc Age eee narrowly ovate, thin, the midrib promi- 
nent, ngly eatinate in fruit and partly enclosing the ray-achenes ; i gue (6)8-15, the 
rays ye ong, oblong ro en oblong, emarginate or toothed at apex, rarely entire; 
disk-flowers about 2 mm. ene tube slender "and densely ne te me throat campa neg e; recep- 
tacle about 2 mm. high, conical, glabrous or hirsute, mostly scrobiculate; achen m 
sc 
more long, slender, linear, sc abridulous, slightly compressed and obscurely 2-4- 
pes in 
me argins erose or fi 
oe or at Se and tapering to awns as long as the disk-corollas or shorter, or truncate or 
obtuse and either awnless or abruptly pid or completely lacking; paleae of the ray-flowers 
ater differing Pe those of the disk-flow 
pen places, —— Zones; cismontane pensar California in Ventura, Los Angeles, and San Bernardino 
Kountice south to northern Lower California. Type locality: San Diego, San Diego County, Collected by Nuttall. 
pri 
Ext tremely rearame as to pappus and pubescence. Baeria aristata var. tha ? fhe the —_ BL dere ang asso- 
pe with it (B. ten 
and B. parishii) csi somewhat in eviews inate: rays (6-8), these 
re often entire at the a: The plants are sometimes less glandular. 
fro the coast but scarcely reaching as ey se the desert. 
long, which 
These forms are more Saad found away 
The original collction was made at Los Angeles. 
50. LASTHENIA Cass. Opusc. 3: 88. 1834. 
mewhat succulent spring annuals, glabrous to sparsely puberulent Repecielly about 
the paeiesars e. Leaves opposite, entire, sessile ce hae connate at base. Heads 
pedunculate, terminal on the branches or on the simple stems, the peduncle enlarged below 
the flower. Ray- and disk-flowers yellow. Involucre ne the phyllaries in a single 
5356. Baeria fremontii 5357. Baeria californica 
