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From Contra Costa to Colusa Counties, on wooded hills. 

 Leaves commonly laciniate-pinnatifid as in most species. 



S. MONTANA. — Kesembling the preceding, but stouter, the 

 foliage less deeply laciniate: akene linear-columnar, not nar- 

 rowed below, 5 lines long: pappus light brown: paleae linear- 

 lanceolate, truncate or slightly notchod at the apex, only 3 

 lines long, its short-plumose awn a little longer. 



Mountains of Kern County above Tehachaj)i Pass, June, 

 1884, Mrs. Curran. 



A coarser plant than S. sylvatica, with very different fruit. 

 The awn though really plumose, does not bring this species 

 into troublesome proximity to Ptilocalais, for it is short, 

 straight, and of firm texture. 



^^Acaulescent. — South Pacific species. 



B. SCAPIGERA. — Scorzonera scapigera, Forst. Prod. 91; 

 Scorzonera Lcaorencii, Hook. f. Lond. Journ. vi. 124; Phyl- 

 lopappus lanceolatus, Walp. in Linntea, xiv. 507; Microseris 

 Fosteri, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. and Fl. Tastn. i. 226; 

 Benth. Fl. Aust. iii. 676; Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. ix. 209. 



High mountains of Australia and New Zealand. Outer 

 bracts of involucre somewhat calyculate, as in our S. leptose- 

 pala. More strictly scapose than any of our species, and a 

 smaller plant; commonly less than a foot high. 



PTILOCALAIS, (Gray, Pac. E. Kep. iv. 113). 



Perennial root, foliage, involucre, receptacle, etc., as in 

 Scorzonella. Pappus bright white, soft and fragile, double, 

 namely, of a single short, external bristle, and 15 — 20 short, 

 truncate or emarginate paleas, terminating in a long, grace- 

 fully recurving, soft-plumose capillary bristle or awn. — Ftilo- 

 phora, Gray, PL Fendl. 112. Calais § Ptilophora, Gray, Pac. 

 R. Rep.l. c; Microseris § Ptilophora, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad, 

 ix. 208, Bot. Cal. ii. 423, Syn. Fl. ii. 416.— Genus with the 

 habit of Scorzonella, but pappus resembling that of Stephano- 



