SUNFLOWER FAMILY 469 
with a rhombic, greenish or brownish spot, ovate through obovate to linear-spatulate or linear, 
all obtuse or rounde d, spreading in age sbestilrate flowers 143-60, hermaphrodite 5-10; corollas 
Tedgich. tipped ; achenes minutely papi 
An fie ait European weed of pi al Aa. and irrigation ditches, occurring locally around Portland, 
Oregon, and apy Praag edge nee more ig hg oe Marin County, California, southward to 
Orange County and also in the San Joaquin Valley in San Joa ,; Merced, and Madera Counties. April—Oct. 
2. Gnaphalium chilénse Spreng. Cotton-batting Plant. Fig. 5818. 
Gnaphalium chilense Spreng. Syst. 3: 480, 1826. 
Gnaphalium sprengelitt Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beechey 150. 
Gnaphalium gossypinum Nutt. Trans. Amer. Phil. se 2 WSF: 403. 1841, 
hali 
Gnaphalium chilense var. ep aing-+ ce Fl. benlon 400. 1897. 
Gaeereiee iihiebveaph Rydb. Mem, N.Y. Bot. Gard. 1: 415. 1900. 
aphalir reen gon tie Nat. 15: ey 1902. 
be - or biennial bse strong taproot, 1-6 dm. high, often several-stemmed, mostly erect 
or sometimes decumbent in the coastal Ha i rather loosely, floccosely, and persistently gray- 
woolly th throughout csualy ar aromatic. — and lower stem-leaves spatulate to obovate or oblong, 
9 g, 3-10 mm. wi 1 i 
5-6 cm. ne 1-8 mm. cof obtu a : 
or less conspicuously short-decurrent; heads about 1 sort creeaee , terminating the stem in 
loose, more or less capitate glomerules or clustered on short corymbose branches ; involucres Bub- 
globose or campanulate-subglobose, 4-6 mm. high; phyllaries pearly white when young to straw 
— or distinctly yellowish, ee what pas in age, thin-scarious and shining, oval o 
obov through oblong to (inne rust linear, = broadly rounded or the innermost sicitish 
piste flowers 160-200, he adaphradite 19-28; corollas yellow. 
rious habitats, mostly moist, Transition and So n Zones; Washington south, win the Channel 
nae ers northern Lower California, east to Montana pss po ee to Arizona, New pens o, and western 
Texas. Tyne penis ye SP fornia, errone oualy attr bach it to Chile. Collected a Chamis no Mar h-Oct. 
A je varia able n growth fora Piolits i osed situations along the ocean cliffs. and d 
rsist et an one bah They have a thes decumbent stems, ie ch are teat clothed with aece 
ame as a from woody roots. The form seer ied. by Greene as G. chilense var. hig’ fei inaa found on the 
coast and inland has much the same habit. It is, however, a biennial and has linear-acute lea 
om cae gna pn was Nutt. White Everlasting. Fig. 5819. 
Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. IT. 7: 404. 1841. 
pometomsc albitinds ©: M. fh ee. eae Herb. No. 70: 84. 1924 
Perennial with herbage densely white- tomentose hrimlcs odorless or nearly so, wit 
eral stems 5-10 dm. high arising from the woody base, these rather stout and usually branching 
e the young shoves “a the basal fees oblanceolate, obtuse, or acute, narrowed at t 
i : 6-18 ide ; 1 
ent; inflorescence cymose-paniculate, 2-15 cm. long, 
cately spreading or on some stems in scarcely omen seg De head-like clusters ; hea 0)- 
flowered, the hermaphrodite flowers - ao ere s 4.5-5. high, cylindr je-campanulate, 
nenaily, i ig rt the outer series woolly; phyllaries thin, baler and shin ning, the outer ovate 
vate-oblo cute, wictigs nally obese "the inner oblong, sometimes apiculate; pappus- Peles 
distinct, falling separately. 
Alluvial fans Lo open places in chaparral, Sonoran Zones; local in Napa County and the Mount Hamilton 
Range, Santa Cla ba Ca ged ote J. Smith); more common from Monterey Couvity south to San Ber- 
nardino and Sasi Die o Countie n the yee Cruz Islands; 7 une Oot Sierra Nevada foothills from Madera 
mer. Acad. 17: 2 4. 1882. Stems leafy, the leaves sage late — 
aphalium wrightii A. Gas. “i A 1 
not Pobeta ay heads about 35—40-flowered; involucres pane 2-3- onda oe few, thin, hyaline and shin 
= outer usually obtuse, the inner sharply acute. A specimen fro San Diego County (Winging 10325 
m the San Bernardino Mountains appear to be 
corresponds 2 the Arizona material of G. wrightii. Specimens: fro 
Snterasodiatk between this species and the coarser G. microcephalum 
4. OI thermale E. Nels. Slender Cudweed. Fig. 5820. 
Guaphalium t wares ale 00. 
Gnaphalinum villia Bch: ‘ah. Torrey Club ‘37: 324. 
Gnaphalinm heed a G. N. Jone . Pub. hs - on 1939, 
Perennial 2-4 dm. high, ae is paves and somewhat sweet-scented, stems several 
from the woody taproot, erect and simple below inflor a, oe mbent at base, more or less 
ne 
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densely leafy below, the internodes longer abor 3 w sh basal_ leaves 
oblanceolate to spatulate, oss. ye ree ine = m-leaves g eduatty r ed upward, sessile, ob- 
lanceolate to linear. acute at apex 43 ¢ : Bp ong noticeably decurrent in the bract-like leaves of 
the inflorescence ; inflor rescence ustia ally sh ose or cymos ae e, the branch scend- 
ing; heads about 40—50-flowered, the hermaphrodite flowers 2 or 3, glomerulate o ultimate 
branches ; pabeisc ie woolly ‘only 8 t the extreme base and on the short peduncle, 4-5 mm. high, 
uall seriate ; gine s thin, Byahiae: and shining, rarely with an opaque 
id oom en cu. ecpidate at apex, the outer ovate, Hei inner narrowly lanceo 
late or linear : pappus- -bristles distinct, falling separately. 
