500 COMPOSITAE 
134. BRICKELLIA Ell. Bot. S. C. & Ga. 2: 290. 1823. 
erbs or shrubs. Leaves opposite or alternate, sessile or petioled. Heads discoid, 3- 
oa a small to large, solitary to panicled, white, o saree or purplish. ‘Tne 
volucre several-seriate, strongly graduate, the phyllaries ay, conspicuously striate, the 
outer herbaceous-tipped. Receptacle flattish, naked. Corollas all me tubular, 5-toothed. 
Achenes cylindric-prismatic, 10-ribbed. Pappus of numerous ce pao: & ristles, pert 
white. Anthers rounded at base Style-branches linear-clavat Nam 2 ea oO 
Brickell, naturalist and physician, a contemporary of i uhtenteee and “Elio 
A genus of 93 species, dl = of the Americas. Besides those here described. others occur in southwestern 
and southeastern United Stat Type species, Brickellia cordifolia El). 
Heads 3—7-flowered, very small 
Leaves linear or nade linear-lanceolate, 1-10 mm. wide. 1. B. longifolka. 
Leaves — 
Lea entire or afi —* — glabrous. 2. B. multiflora. 
tana ves serrate; phyllaries puberulous a gs 3. B. knappiana. 
Heads 8— Coie Sereret ‘eaeeatly. sade ium or ae 
Leaves mostly tt ‘a mm. long or less; intricately branched sonic 
. B. frutescens. 
— usually dt , larger, sometimes elliptic and entire or suben 
Leaves white-tomentose; ied large (2 cm. high or more), solitary, naked- psc AS 
5. B. incana. 
Leaves green, or else — much smaller and on leafy pedun 
Leaves firmly coriaceous, spinescent-toothed; heads poo naked-pedun 
cled. 
Outer sivaA ee broadly ovate-oblong; peduncles glabrate to finely glandular. a 
6. B. atractyloides. 
Outer phyllaries ovate-lanceolate; peduncles with dense, short, spreading pubescence. 
rie 
B. arguta. 
Leaves — ony coriaceous ‘Ror spinescent toothed; heads clustered or leafy-peduncled 
Outer Harie te tips. 8. B. grandiflora. 
Outer pecans: S not v tt te tips 
ads ocean clustered in gp axillar 1 
Petioles 5-20 mm. long; leaf-blades 1—5 cm. Le not cinerous-puberulous. 
So. B. rs i 
Petioles 1-3 mm. long; leaf-blades 3—14 mm. long, usually cinereous-puberulou 
10:..B. eriave een. 
Heads otherwise. 
Stem and leaves ig -lanat 11. B. nevinii. 
Stem and a ee rary 
Heads Skate. bracted. ; 
eaves a ally distinctly toothed; he ady numerous, solitary, or in 
clusters uf 7 at tips of divergent bracteate branches 
Stem and pedicels pilose with wide- apis gland- tipped hairs. 
B. microphylla. 
Stem and pedicels lanulose with mostly eglandular hairs 
13 
Leaves mostly elliptic to oval, entire; stems reap Be or penta hana: 
heads 1 to many, cymo osely arranged 
HW a 4 1 rN * ih ecal 
p y leafy-bracted at base. 
“14, = ee 
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1. Brickellia ee S. Wats. Willow-leaved Brickellia. Fig. 5877. 
. Amer. Nat. 7: 3 1873. 
— Shae ae rae Rev. Gen. Pl. * 328. 1891, 
Much branched shrub, the stem glabrous, viscid, white-barked. Leaves alternate, the blades 
linear or narrowly linear-lanceolate, 2-13 cm. long, mm. wide, pe entire or obs sae 
denticulate, gland-dotted, short-petioled; heads abaek: 8 mm. high, 3-5-flowered, in sma sin shor - 
peduncled, axillary and terminal, umbelliform cymules, forming a ‘lea fy thyr or involucr 
high, the phyllarie: € 10-12, ovate to linear- aa obtuse, dry, Dies eiteia: corollas Thine 
achenes hispidulou 
Rare on canyon ae and in washes, Sonoran eam southern Utah to northern Arizona and Nevada, and 
Inyo County, California. Type locality: southern Nev . Au ug.—Oct. 
2. Brickellia multifldra Kell. Gum-leaved Brickellia. Fig. 5878. 
Brickellia multifiora Kell. Proc. Calif. a 49. 1877. 
Coleosanthus multiflorus Kuntze, Rey. Gen. Pl. 1: 328. 1891. 
Branching shrub 5-9 apy ce more a less —s. the stem white, baler ag Leaves ogg 
os blades pre eeabee the per narrowly lanceolate, 3.5-8.7 cm. long, 1.2-2.8 ¢ €, 
cuminate, entire or obscurely Slentic slate, SL oh Shacks lous, es ee dot ted; phyllaries " Seeat 
i 20; heads ic nflorescence much as in B. longifolia, the leaves tanec the flowering 
branchlets short 
¥ ommon yon slopes and in gravelly or sandy washes, Sonoran Zones; southern Sierra Nevada, 
California, mostly on the eastern slopes Sitwnet in the eis ranges to adjacent Nevada. Type locality: Kings 
Canyon, She Nevada, Fresno County, California. Aug.—Oct 
