SUNFLOWER FAMILY. 



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1. G. purpureum L. Purple Cudweed. Sterne commonly 

 simple and erect from a slightly decumbent base, 4 to 12 in. high; 

 herbage canescent with a close dense coating of white wool, the 

 upper surface of the leaves usually early glabrate; leaves broadly 

 spatulate, obtuse, 1 to 2 in. long and 7 lines wide or less; heads 

 crowded in a spike-like inflorescence which is dense and oblong, or 

 more elongated and more or less interrupted; heads 2 lines long; 

 involucre brownish or purplish; achenes sparsely scabrous. 



Open ground, frequent: Napa City; Sausalito; Fish Ranch, Contra 

 Costa Co.; Berkeley; San Francisco; Sierra Nevada. 



2. G. palustre Nutt. Lowland Cudweed. Annual, branching 

 from the base, 3 to 8 in. high, erect or ascending; herbage loosely 

 floccose with long wool, more or less deciduous from the leaves; leaves 

 nearly all spatulate, or a few about the clusters of heads oblong or 

 lanceolate, less than £ in. to 1 in. long; heads in .small clusters at the 

 ends of the branches, 1 to U lines high; bracts of the involucre 

 linear, with white obtuse often denticulate tips. 



Common in .stream beds and low lands: Lake Co.; Russian River; 

 Sonoma; Napa River; Howell Mountain; San Francisco; Oakland; 

 Mt. Diablo; Sacramento Valley; San Joaquin Valley ; Sierra Nevada; 

 Southern California. 



Var. nanum. Dwarf, 1 to 2\ in. high; bracts acute. — Dry wooded 

 hills, in open places: St. Helena, June 2, 1896. 



3. G. decurrens Ives var. Californicum Gray. California 

 Everlasting. Biennial; stem stoutish, 2 or 3 ft. high, corymbosely 

 branched at summit, the branches bearing glomerules of large heads 

 and forming a broad and somewhat flat-topped inflorescence; herbage 

 soon becoming green and more or less glabrate (except on the under 

 surface of the leaves), at maturity glandular and balsamic-scented; 

 lower leaves oblong (X to 1 >n. broad, and 2 to 5 in. long), diminishing 

 in size upwards and becoming lanceolate, all obviously decurrent; 

 heads roundish or broad, 3 lines high or slightly more, the involu- 

 cral bracts white or in age rusty-tinged. 



Dry wooded hills of the Coast Ranges: Lake Co.; Howell Moun- 

 tain; Oakland Hills and southward to Southern California. May- 

 July. 



4. G. ramosissimum Nutt. Pink Everlasting. Biennial. 2 

 to 5 ft. high, the stems one to several from the base, ending above in 

 a much branched panicle which is often narrow and sometimes 

 virgate and frequently more than 1 ft. long; herbage glandular and 

 very sweet-scented; leaves at length green on both faces, the stem 

 more or less arachnoid; heads narrowly ovate or turbinate. 2 lines 

 high, reddish or pinkish. 



Wooded hills near the coast: Mt. Tamalpais; Oakland Hills and 

 southward to Southern California, also in the Sierra Nevada. July- 

 Sept. 



5. G. microcephalum Nutt. Small-headed Everlasting. 

 Stems often several from the base (1\ to 2} feet high) branching above 



