SUNFLOWER FAMILY. 



1. P. camphorata (L.) DC. Salt-maksii Flkauank. Annual: 

 stems stoutish, erect, branching above, 1] to 2h ft. high; herbage 

 glandular-puberulent; leaves oblong-ovate or lanceolate, glandular- 

 clentate, short-petioled or the upper sessile, the larger 3 to 5 in. long; 

 heads 1\ lines high, rarely leafy-bracted, in corymb-like cymes; 

 bracts of the involucre ovate-lanceolate; achenes pubescent. 



Common in the salt marshes about Suisun (Brewer, Jepson) and 

 San Francisco Bays, southward to Kern Lake (Dnrii) and Southern 

 California. 



75. ADENOCAULON Hook. 

 Perennial herbs. Stems slender, leafy only at the base, bearing 

 above a panicle of small and few heads of whitish flowers, the upper 

 portion ot the stem and the panicle beset with small glands. Leaves 

 alternate, broad, petioled, green and glabrous above, white-woolly 

 beneath. Heads of few disk-flowers; ray-flowers none. Marginal 

 flowers of the head pistillate and fertile, the central perfect, sterile 

 and with undivided style; corollas of both sorts, tubular and alike. 

 Bracts of the involucre 5, equal, in a single row, not scarious, reflexed 

 in fruit, at length deciduous. Keceptacle flat, naked. Mature 

 achenes much elongated and clavate, covered above with stalked 

 glands. Pappus none. (Greek adenos, a gland, and kaulon. a 

 stem.) 



1. A. bicolor Hook. Stems \\ to 2\ ft. high, the lower portion 

 floccose-woolly ; leaves deltoid-ovate, cordate at the base, sinuate- 

 dentate, l^to mostly 3 or 4 in. long and as broad or broader; petioles 

 margined; achenes 3 to Sh lines long, much longer than bracts of 

 the involucre. 



Woods of the seaward and middle Coast Ranges and of the Sierra 

 Nevada. June. 



Tribf 10. Astereae. Aster Tribe. 



76. GUTI ERREZI A Lag. 

 Herbaceous or suffrutescent, the herbage resin-bearing, nearly 

 glabrous. Leaves narrowly linear, entire, alternate. Heads very 

 small, turbinate-oblong to campanulate, numerous and corymbosely 

 arranged at the summit of the stems and branches. Bracts of the 

 involucre coriaceous, the outer shorter. Receptacle in ours flat. 

 Flowers yellow; rays short, in ours 8 to 10. Achenes angled or 

 striate, mostly silky. Pappus paleaceous. (Name of a noble 

 Spanish family.) 



1. G. Californica (DC.) T. & G. Plants 1 to 1.1 ft. high, the woody 

 base much branched; leaves scabrous; heads fastigiately corymbose, 

 2 to 3 lines high; rays 8 to 10; disk-flowers 6 to 11; achenes densely 

 silky; pappus of about 12 unequal palese. 



Dry hills of the South Coast Ranges towards the coast. 



