Pectis multiseta Benth.

Pectis multiseta Benth. Bot. Voy. Sulph. 20. 1844
A diffuse annual; stem 1-3 dm. high, puberulent, much branched; leaves lanceolate, 1-2.5 cm. long, 2-4 mm. wide, serrulate, with bristle-tipped teeth; glands scattered, of various sizes; heads in leafy cymes; peduncles 1-3 cm. long; involucre turbinate, about 4.5 mm. high; bracts 5, obovate-cimeate, ciliate, with several elongate glands; ray-flowers about 5; ligules 4-6 mm. long, 2.5-3 mm. wide; disk-flowers 15-20; corollas 3 mm. long; achenes 3-4 mm. long, hispidulous-puberulent; pappus of the ray-flowers of 3, of the disk-flowers of 1 or 2, stout, subulate, retrorsely scabrous awns, or sometimes reduced to a mere crown of short united squamellae.
Type locality: Cape San I.ucas, Lower California. Distribution: Lower California.

Pectis bennettii Klatt, Leopoldina 25 : 108. 1889
A diffusely branched annual; stem terete, puberulent, 1-2 dm. high; leaves linear-oblanceolate, acute, sinuate-dentate or entire, 1-2.5 cm. long, 3-4 mm. wide, with 3-5 pairs of bristles and glands in 2 rows on each side of the midrib; heads in leafy cymes; peduncles 2-3 cm. long; involucre campanulate, 4 mm. high and nearly as broad; bracts 5, oblong-oblanceolate, strongly keeled, conspicuously glandular-dotted, puberulent; ray-flowers 5; ligules about 5 mm. long and 2 mm. wide; disk-flowers about 8; corollas 3 mm. long; achenes 3.5-4 mm.
*See Coville, Bot. Gaz. 20: 528. long, pubescent; pappus of the disk-flowers of 2 or 3 minute erect squamellae; that of the rayflowers of 2 or 3 stout, spreading, retrorsely barbed, subulate awns.
Type locality: Cape San Lucas. Lower California
Distribution; Known only from the type locality.