SUNFLOWER FAMILY 491 
6. Filago arvénsis L. Field Filago. Fig. 5862. 
Guaphalium peta hy an Pi. eee 1753. 
Filago arven t. Addend 
Erect, piety: ste bce annual, floccose-woolly throughout, 30-50_ cm. spine pred od 
branched well above the base, "tie spose ascen nding. Le ick about 1. is 3 cm. lon alte 
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age, scarious only at the extreme tip; por wb of the pistillate flowers epappose; receptacle flat- 
tish, the shai bracts surrounding the fertile and few sterile hermaphrodite flowers longer 
than the outer bracts, scarious and less woolly, glabrous above, the achenes papillate and bearing 
a pappus of capillary bristles 
Adventive from Europe, inpaning common in overgrazed areas; southeastern British Columbia and adjacent 
Washington to Idaho and Montana. July—Aug. 
127. PSILOCARPHUS Nutt. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. IT. 7: 340. 1841. 
wv oconse-wholly annuals, rp ae except in depauperate specimens, with narrow, 
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lobed, bluntly muricate. Pistillate flowers numerous (about 20-50), closely imbricate, each 
loosely enclosed by and deciduous with its subtending receptacular bract, this obliquely 
5859. Filago arizonica 5861. Filago californica 
5860. Filago depressa 5862. Filago arv 
