490, COMPOSITAE 
2. Filago gallica L. Narrow-leaved Filago. Fig. 5858. 
Filago gallica L. Sp. Pl. ed. 2. 1312. 
Logfia subulata Cass. Dict. Sci. Nat. 27: 116. 1826. 
Logfia gallica Coss. & Germ. Ann. Sci. Nat. ah 20: 291. pi. 13. 1843. 
Slender, erect, subsericeous-woolly annual, simple or erect branched even from base, about 
2 dm. high or less, leafy throug ve ut. Leaves narrowly linear or linear-subulate, 0.5-2 cm. long, 
0.3-1.5 mm. wide, acumi a, to an obtuse callous tip, often revolute-margined, erect; heads in a 
small cluster at apex of stem, hecdeetvely’. surpassed by | or more series of branches bearing similar 
terminal uiters , leafy- ey the leafy ae rather broader than the stem-leaves, usuall oO 
or three times as lon hea heads pentagonal-ovoid, about m. high; uter pistillate 
flowers completely time in their bracts, these with horizontal indurated body 
long e ng, the latter subherbaceo low, bordered for about its 
upper by an ovate, nb: e, hyaline sppete! e, all portions of the bract except the endage 
densely long-woolly ; rec Peptacle | inside t barely convex, bearing about 10 pistillate and abou 
ol 
4 hermaphrodite flowers, surrounded tt fii ut 5 open, concave, lance-oblong, obtuse receptacular 
bracts, narrowly hyaline-margined and scarious-tipped; achenes of the 5 outer pistillate flowers 
glabrous, epappose; other achenes papillose and with a pappus of 20 bristles united at extreme 
aig an nd se scone Sit ether 
rope on bey slopes; Humboldt, agg oage and ate stouetias: a south to Santa 
Rocke County . yy Count Ranges and Mariposa County n the Sier April-Sep’ 
3. Filago arizonica A. Gray. Arizona Filago. Fig. 5859. 
Filago arizonica A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 8: 652. 1873. 
Thinly woolly annual, soon much branched and diffuse, the branches about 20 cm. long or less 
with elongated naked internodes, repeatedly proliferous, the leaves almost wanting except for 
i e-linea ulate 3 mm. lo 
those ages, t ves linear to lance-linear arrowly spatulate, 4-1 ng, 1-2 
callo enue; cl gi we about the heads and usually about twice as 1 
small salen at tips of stem an nches ; pistil ate flowers about 13-15, each loosely inserted 
in an open boap Beaded ME Re a eee ith thin, densely woolly body (greenish above) and 
a much shorter, ovate, obtuse, hyaline tip; center of receptacle tish, bearing 4-8 hermaphrodite 
owers surrounded by about 4 thin, sabe r quite glabrous, flattish receptacular bracts; —- 
of pistillate flowers smooth and epappose, of hermaphr odite flowers papillose and pappc 
Arid plac Sonoran Zones; the Channel Islands meg = —_ pene Califor ae, south to northern ne 
California, ser in — Colorado and southern Moja eserts zona and sdike nt Sonora. Type locality: 
Mesa Verde, Arizona. April-May 
4. Filago depréssa A. Gray. Dwarf Filago. Fig. 5860. 
Filago depressa A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 19: 3. 1883. 
Depressed or ascending, whitish-woolly annual, much branched — — 18 cm. long or 
less, ate: Leaves spatulate or narrowly obovate to nearly linear, 3-8 c , 1-1.5 mm. wide, 
e a 
mn b 1 
woolly on back above, about 12-flowered (2-3 of these phan ct aE the flowers all pappose 
acnenes all smooth, ars obovoid, about 4-nerve oe 0.7 mm. lon 
Desert places, Lower Sonoran Zone; Colorado and Mojave Maina and nce County, California, east to 
southeastern Arizona. Type theality: os all Springs, Riverside County, California. April-May. 
5. Filago califérnica Nutt. California Filago. Fig. 5861. 
Filago californica Nutt. Trans. Amer. Phil. we 7: 405. 1841. 
Oglifa californica Rydb. Fl. Rocky Mts. 914. 
Slender, et grayish-woolly Apel 15-40 cm. high, simple or much branched from the base, 
leafy throughout. Leaves narrowly spatulate to oblanceolate or nearly linear, usuall m. 
long, 1-3 mm. wie, os obtuse, Der tet culate ; ee clustered at-tips of stem and short 
mes also axillary, not conspicuously surpassed by the involucrating leaves ; 
outer pistillate hears shone 10, loosely enclosed in thin, boat-shaped, densely woolly receptacular 
bra pe ap stellately sieeadink in age hye having inflexed os not meeting in 
ing in a ap 
and epappo: re re Si 
| Pose ; unded by about 5 concave, thin ; 
receptacular bracts, about 20-flowered (about 3 of these hermaphrodite), these achenes all papil- 
lose and iete a pappus of aiegeey basally united ite: central corollas often rosy and inner 
receptacu somet margined. 
Dry hi aie and open p! cose aces, mealies and Sonoran roche get Mendocino and Butte Counties to southern 
California and nort Lower California, more abundant toward the coast rere Fo in the mete ave and Colorado 
Deserts, east to Utah and Arizona, Type locali ity: near Senta Barbara, California. March—May. 
