Compositae of Southern California

es, callous-thickened at base. Pappus of 2 to 12 (in ours 10 to 12) scabrous bristles and in addition a series of shorter thin paleae. 1. H. pluriseta Gray, Pacif. R. Kept. iv. pt. 5, 96, t. 9 (1857). Stems decidedly woody, intricately much branched, forming bush-like plants usually 3 to 6 dm. high: herbage glandular- puberulent: leaves 1 to usually 3 cm. long; petiole flat or canaliculate at least toward the base, 1 to 4 cm. long; blade less than 7 mm. long, deltoid to lanceolate or linear, acute at apex, tapering at base, entire or with 1 or 2 small teeth, the whole blade often so small as to appear merely as the dilated and flattened tip of the petiole: bracts of the inflorescence linear-subulate: involucre 7 to 9 mm. high, about 20-flowered; bracts conspicuously 3-striate, with acuminate often recurved tip: pappus of 10 to 12 bristles equalling or somewhat exceeding the corolla and about as many narrow acute squamellae, the latter sometime... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.