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longer petioles than the upper stem- ares: ——. parted into oblong or linear, blunt lobes, 
2-7 cm. long, puberulent; peduncles 2-4 cm. long, enlarged below the head, den sely beset with 
gianitinpsd hairs ; involucre 5-6 m vochiak. pre Swics Bf: Eat glandular- notes paxtlarics 
trowly obovate, abruptly Ban above; rays rrowly cuneate, 3-c mm. 
long ; achenes Rack: striate Sal 4-angled, glabrous or as by glandular- a Seana eanectalie 
above, epappese 
Bins places along streams and roadsides, Arid Transjtion Zone; San Bernardino and Santa Rosa Moun- 
tains, California a, and mountains of northern Lower sce gt east — southern shee en Colorado, New 
Mexico, and Chihuahua. Type locality: a few miles f Mora River, New M . Aug.—Oct 
2. Bahia neomexicana A. Gray. New Mexico Bahia. Fig. 5362. 
hi A. Gray, Mem. Amer. Acad. IT. 4: 96. 1849. 
Amblyopappus neo-mexicanus A, Gray in Torr. Pacif. R. Rep. 4: 106, 1857. 
ahi tc 883. 
Cephalobembix neomexicana Rydb. N. Amer. FI. 34: 
Slender annuals 1-2 dm. high, single- Sauda below or prancing from the base, the stems 
often reddish, sparsely pubescen . Rae scending or. appressed a or — te, ine ig ol ar- 
puberulent below the heads. Leav saeae often alternate and e m. 
pressed-punctate and oi hispi lous, usually tripartite into Sean: filiform viian : tes 
3-flowered or more, borne on the See: of ne ranchlets on peduge 4 .5-3 cm. long; involucre 
obconic; phyllaries 5-8, eRe te, ok al in width, about 6 mm. long, herbaceous and often pur- 
plish-tinged on the margin, Rem “panctate or glandular- eercralnt and ae sparsely hirsute; 
ray-flowers none; disk- sie es pale yellow or whitish; achenes glandular, very narrowly ob- 
dbareseoee about 3-6 mm. long, sparsely strigose, Pinan white: hirsute at base with ascending 
hairs ; pappus-paleae 78. equa al, about 1. 26, se tg obtuse at apex, hyaline but callous- 
hsekevet at the base, this often bearing a ere ks 
Sandy washes and slopes, Arid Transition Zone; tee - oe = from Clark Mountain, eastern 
San Bernardino County ( (Roos 4955); Ari — =a and norther r California to Colorado, New Mexico, and 
Chihuahua. Type locality: Santa Fe, New M . Aug.—Oct 
53. MONOLOPIA DC. Prod. 6: 74. 1837. 
White-lanate, erect, spring annuals simple or much branched at or above the base. 
Lower leaves opposite and narrowed to a petioliform base, the upper alternate, sessile, and 
reduced upward. Heads solitary, terminating the branches. Involucres hemispheric or 
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bilabiate, the posterior lobe minute, the tube glandular-hispidulous. Disk-flowers yellow, 
few to many, hermaphrodite, fertile, 5-lobed, the lobes hairy within, the tube glandular- 
hispidulous. Stamens 5, the anthers rounded below, bearing apical ovate appendages a: 
Style-branches of ray-flowers slender, obtuse, of the disk-flowers stoutish, obtuse o sub- 
or quadratish, epappose. {From the Greek meaning single and husk, alluding to the bracts 
of the involucre. ] 
A genus of 4 species, all natives of California. Type species. Monolopia major DC. 
Phyvyll j disti t to hase 
Limb of ray-flowers rounded. apically oo or denticulate; disk-achenes essentially as wide as thick 
Bay pe strongly pete anaes plants of the Coast Ranges, Contra Costa and San Mateo ot to San 
2 Os SEDO. Cou 1: cilens. 
Ped ts o n San — Valley and adincess Hoke 2. ee, 
Limb of the ray- Mowers truncate, i eat dent o. M. as 
Phyllaries et one-half their length into a tobesd 6 4. M. major. 
1. Monolopia gracilens S a oo Monolopia. Fig. 5363. 
Mansiony — - Gray, Proc. Amer. Aca 
racilens J. F. Macbride, oe Stns ait No. 56: 49. 1918. 
Steins 1-4 ee high, simple below or gpa gore branching from the base, the branches of 
midstem divaricate es prone ‘ite. lanate and somewhat deciduous in age. s d lower 
leaves crowded, narrowly or broadly Rance dentate, 3-7 cm. long, tardily withering; the 
upper broadly langeolatt. dentate to nearl ire, acute or acuminate, 2-10 long, mostly 
reduce oming bract-like at the inflorescence; heads subcorymbose on divergently ascend- 
ing peer tes, these 2.5-12 cm. long; phyllaries rae free, Bisck: lanate, narrowly ve broadly 
ovate, 5-6 mm. long; ra iti reve wers ret yellow, with 7-11 greenish veins, entire shallowly 
emarginate at apex; disk- flowers yellow; achenes black or dark brown, essen entially Pabroat, 
the ray-achenes slightly convex and somewhat dorsally carinate, a little shorter than the disk- 
sickoces es, ee 2 m aa 
Sonoran and Transition Zones; central California from Contra 
Store Gate ny. south through the Guter Coast Ranges to San Luis Obispo County. ‘Type locality: New Almaden, 
