252 COMPOSITAE 
13. Eriophyllum mohavénse (I. wt 15379. Jepson. Barstow Eriophyllum. 
abslindabiipad sabonenas 3. M. Johnston, Contr. Gra ate No. 68: 101. 1923. 
phyll Jepson, Man. Fl. Pl. Calif. 1117. 1925. 
Thinly and loosely “Aocitee! woolly annuals 1.5-2.5 cm. high, tending to be glabrate on the 
stems, much branched and spreading from the base, a rounded tufts. Leaves 3.5- pages 
long, spatulate, attenuate to a long, slender, petiolar base, entire and cuspidate at apex wi ith 
2 or usually 3 short, acute, cuspidate lobes, revolute in age; heads more or less chiterae euort 
the leaves on the ends of the branches, peduncles rather stout, 1.5-3.5 mm. long, 3—4-flowered; 
involucre cylindric, 3-4 mm. high; phyllaries 3 or 4, narrowly oblong to oblanceolate, concave ; 
e e as long a ) obes ; 
2 mm. long, Las a eae strigose; pappus- yes oI 12- 14, es ited si fe to obova te, 
about m 
rarely collected plant pers on sandy washes and mesas, Upper Sonoran Zone; San ene Guay: 
California, in the vicinity of Barstow and at Stoddard’s Well (Jepson 5902). Type locality: Barstow. ril-May 
55. PSEUDOBAHIA Rydb. N. Amer. Fl. 34: 83. 1915. 
More or less floccose-tomentose spring annuals. Leaves iptb ae entire, 3-lobed o 
pinn ae or bipinnately parted. Heads yellow, terminal on the e the branches. nel 
vatieres broadly campanulate. Puyitides | in one series, harinedie” slightly concave cen- 
trally at maturity, oa except at the base or partly united and ecoming indurated. Recep- 
g oO 
vestigial pappus-palea reek, meaning false, and Bahia, Pr heleniid genus. 
us of 3 species, all shes of California. Type species, Monolopia bahiaefolia Ben 
Leaves entire or 3-lobed. 1. P. bahiaefolia. 
Leaves eer or €Figeen divided. 
Lea’ — atifid; stems coarse; lower part of involucre scarcely cartilaginous in age and lacking dregs 
processes at A junction of the lobes. . P. peirso 
Leaves ces: stems slender; lower vert of involucre cartilaginous in age and usually bearing ge 
processes at the junction of the lobes . P. heermannii. 
1. Pseudobahia sr eapennres (Benth.) Rydb. Hartweg’s Pseudobahia. Fig. 5380. 
Monolopia bahiaefolia Benth. Pl. Hartw. 317. 1849. 
Eriophyllum —<. vege - Fran. 446. 1897 
Pseudobahia bahiaefolia Rydb. N. Amer. FI. 34: 83. “1915. 
_ Floccose-tomentose annuals 6-15 cm. high, simple or branched below the aude with ascend- 
ing branches. Leaves 5 cm. long, coatulat: or oblanceolate in outline, narrowed to a petioli- 
form base, entire or with 2-3 blunt lobes toward the apex, mostly a little rent than the inter- 
nodes ; heads solitary at the ends of t ches on ped 2-5. ; involucre hemi- 
spheric, about 5 mm. high, nearly twice as broad (in pressed specim ns) ; sodictig = about S, 
narrowly ovate, united low the middle, herbavedit: the basal por ei Manton o become in 
durated ; ray-flowers 6-7, tube slender, with a ri ng of villous iar at the summit, a ligule 5- 10 
im. long, ovate to oblong, obscurely toothed at the apex; disk-flowers aban. 2 5 mm. long, ek 
sle ereels throat i funnelform, lobes t aie naked ; achenes black, 1.5 mm. long, n 
2 ovoid, obcompressed, the attened surface ridged, rather ‘ain ed covered with ae 
ng ts mostly seappter but occasionally with minute pappus-palea 
In depressions on low rolling hills, Lower seat Zone; eastern side <4 the Sectsibess ais Joaquin Valley, 
California, a far sout xe a Madera County. Type locality: "Tn pascuis vallis superioris Sacramento.’ Collected 
Bs Pseudobahia peirsonii Munz. Tulare Pseudobahia. Fig. 5381. 
Pseudobahi it Munz, Aliso 2: 84. 1949, 
eae grayish-floccose annual 2-6 dm. high, branching from above the base, the rather 
stout stems often reddish and becoming glabra Le —5. long, usually longer than the 
