SUNFLOWER FAMILY 465 
Dry washes and other sandy or gravelly places from near sea level to nearly 5,000 feet elevation, Uppe rs n 
Zone; oe California from Alameda and Fresno Counties to Lower California, extending castorate. occasion- 
ally onto the Mojave and Colorado Deserts — oe edly to Nevada and Arizona. Type locality: ‘‘Low hills of the 
Sierra pees Mosc, Los Angeles Co., Califor Aug.—Dec 
Tribe 6. CALENDULEAE 
119. CALENDULA L. Sp. Pl. 921. 1753. 
Annual or perennial bbe with leafy stems, the leaves simple and alternate. Involucres 
with disk- and ray-flowers ; disk-flowers sterile. Phyllaries free, in 1 or 2 rows, scarious- 
A genus of about 15 species, natives of the Mediterranean region and eastward to Iran. Type species, Calen- 
dula officinalis L. 
1. Calendula arvénsis L. Field Marigold. Fig. 5813. 
Calendula arvensis L. Sp. Pl. ed. 2. 1303. 1763. 
Annuals, mostly simple-stemmed, Ayre branched above, the internodes long, herbage 
—s glandula ar-hirsutulous oe hou inca narrowly oblanceolate, the lower narrowed to 
a ged petiole, the upper sessi i Ke phi the margins entire or somewhat denticulate ; 
involucres solitary on the br anchlets, the Some s yellow or orange; phyllaries in 2 rows, spread- 
ing in the ned heads ou m. high, ala scarious-margined, the rid purple 
nish, smooth 
atienmate ey bes aring mut eeliian. sarptish glandular hairs; achenes tan or bro ; 
on the inner surface, with many transverse pectinate lites on the outer face, iricurved | in half or 
Introduced weed in orchards and fields, locally ong in spec re Santa Barbara Counties, California; 
a native of central onto and the Mediterranean Type locality urope. Feb.—April. 
Calendula care 5 lis L. See PL “age 1753. rhe ene Lina se tas espe ns, a co ual with thickish, 
oblong, sessile, usually clasping leaves and showy, pale yellow or eere flowers. Gccanienally found occurring 
pee Sn in a i of Sate le in central California near the 
Tribe 7. INULEAE 
Heads with numerous yellow rays; involucres 4-5 cm. broad, at least the outer phyllaries nominee paeecrom 
Heads ine involucres 1.5 cm. broad or much narrower, the phyllaries not foliaceo 
Ph s dry but scarcely scarious, some chartaceous; stout glandular herbs eat woolly yess adh or silky- 
pre tse shrubs. 121... Pluc! 
iia’ completely or in part scarious, or inconspicuou absent; marginal and inner ‘aero ie the re- 
ool ae inte va ariously modified; low annual or eae le or if up to 1 m. high more or less woolly. 
subdioecious. 
Basal leaves peal ina rosette; heads nearly sessile or pes: on stems — less than 2 dm. 
high, t reduced; nh strictly dioe . Antennaria. 
Basal mrt soon withering; stems deals, m. or more a. olatne plants —— with a few 
staminate ieee | in each hea 124. Anaphalis. 
Plants Pt ee: all flowers of ni teats fertile or the outer ones pistillate and fertile, the inner 
aphrodite and often sterile. 
iets numerous, imbricated; pistillate and hermaphrodite flowers all fertile, pappose; a hanipewig 
or annuals. 122. Gnaphalium ium 
Phyllaries few, inconspicuous or absent, the outer receptacular bracts sometimes simulating an 
involucre; only pintiliets. Sowars ‘fertile, pappus absent (inner pistillate flowers in Filago 
uals. 
sometimes with pappus) ; 
Pappus lacking on all Nee “e each head (vestigial capillary bristles present in some species 
ae SEE 
yle latera 127. Psilocarphus. 
Stem-leaves altecwate : style acai (except in Micropus). 
Receptacular r bracts, sul subtending the pistillate flowers completely enclosing and de- 
jade th 
Plants simple, ly branched above; involucre shorter than the bracts of the 
receptacle. 128. Micropus. 
Plants biekan from the base, sometimes also above; pacieen absent, she heads 
subtended by stem-leaves. . Stylocline. 
Receptacular Paes subtending the pistillate flowers plane or concave, Eee 
P t central sterile fi f each head. 126. Filage: 
120. INULAL. Sp. Pl. 881. 1753. 
Perennial, mostly tomentose or woolly herbs. Leaves basal and alternate above. 
in several series, the outer foliaceous. R acle flat or convex, Ss pis- 
tillate, the ligules 3-toothed. Disk-flowers hermaphrodite, fertile, 5-toot Anthers 
sagittate at the base with caudate auricles. Style-branches of the isk-flowers linear, 
obtuse. Achenes 45- ribbed, the pappus of mepunge® bristles. [The ancient Latin name. j 
genus of about 90 species, natives of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Type species, Inula helenium L. 
