SUNFLOWER FAMILY 247 
hairs about the nodes, leaves, and heads. Leaves 1.5-3 cm. long; phyllaries 4 or 5, herbaceous, 
5 mm. long, Pee and rounded at the e apex, densely glandular ; corollas 3.5-4 mm. long, 
stadute® without ; achenes about 3.5 mm. long, the surface dull with darker spots ; pappus-paleae 
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y flats and Sore upper Canadian pe Hudsonian Zones; southern Sierra Nevada in Inyo tyre and 
kite pehre California. Type locality: southern Sierra Nevada. Collected by Rothrock. July— ‘Aug 
61. PALAFOXIA Lag. Gen. & Sp. Nov. 26. 1816. 
Erect, branching, more or less pubescent, annual or perennial herbs, in some species 
arising from a woody base. Leaves alternate, thick, entire. Heads corymbose or paniculate, 
discoid or sometimes radiate, the flowers in shades of pink. pest tees turbinate to nearly 
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ceptacle small, flat, and naked. Ray-flowers when present deeply lobed. Disk-flowers with 
short tube, the 5 lobes longer or shorter than the throat. Anthers obtuse at base, entire or 
obpyramidal, 4-angled, pubescent. Pappus-paleae 4-12, subequal, with strong midribs, 
those of the aacueal flowers often shorter. [Name in honor of José Palafox, a Spanish 
general. | 
A genus = i ys 10 or 12 species, natives of southern United States and adjacent Mexico. Type species, 
Ageratum linea 
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5407. Palafoxia linearis 
5404. Chaenactis stevioides 
5405. Chaenactis carphoclinia 
