Hicracium. COMPOSIT.E. 429 



times glalirons : involucre 4 or 5 lines liigh, glandular, sometimes fis also peduncles glandu- 

 lar-liisi)idulous: akcues rather sliort-cohuiinar : j)ai)]nis whitish. — Gray, Pi'oc. Am. Acad. 

 xix. 68. //. Scoii/eri, Hooker, in herb. & distrib., i)artly ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 478, & Gray, 

 Bot. Calif. 1. c, mainly, not Hook. Fl. //. ci/7iofjhjssoi(lcs, Arvet-Touvet, Spicil. llier. 20, 

 founded on undeveloped specimen of Parry's N. AVyoming coll. no. 188. E. Hall's Oregon 

 coll. 523 consists of this and //. Scouleri mixed. — N. W. Wyoming and Montana [Porter, 

 Parrij) to Washington Terr, and Oregon (first coll. by Tulni/e, &c.) ; also Siskiyou Co., Cali- 

 fornia, Greene, p;issing to 



Var. nudicaule, Gray, 1. c. Leaves all in tlie radical tuft, or only one or two very 

 small and bracteiform on the (8 to 12 inch high) glabrous scape. — Northern Sierra Nevada, 

 California, Lemmon, Mrs. Austin, tlie latter on Lassen's Peak. 



++ -^4- -M- Flowers apparently yclhiw, only 5 to 15 ill the narrow and (liffii>^cly paniculate heads: 

 involucre cylindraceous, not at all glandular (i lines hi.i;;li), of 7 to 9 broadisli-linear and obtuse 

 principal bracts and 2 or 3 short ones: akenes comparatively large, fidly 2 lines long, cliestuut- 

 brown, slightly or at maturity not perceptibly tapering to tlie summit: pappus dark-fuscous: 

 leaves obovate-spatulate, all in a radical tuft at base of the loosely branching (s])au to loot high) 

 scapes. 



H. Bolanderi, Gray. Eadical loaves sparsely or densely long-hirsute, no other pubescence, 

 scapes and involucre smooth and glabrous. — Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 365, Bot. Calif, i. 440, 

 & Proc. Am. Acad. xix. 68. — ISIountains of California, Humboldt Co., Dolander. Near head- 

 waters of the Sacramento, Primjle. Sierra Co., Lemmon. Only Bolandcr's specimen has 

 akenes narrowed upward. 



H. Greenei, Gr.w. Eadical leaves villous-hirsute, also canescent-tomentose on both sides 

 with stellular pube-scence : scape with peduncles and involucre cinereous-tomentose. — Proc. 

 Am. Acad. xix. C9. — Pino woods of Scott's JNIountains, Siskiyou Co., N. California, Greene. 



•H- -H- -K- -H- Flowers yellow, 20 to 30 in the oblong heads: akenes fusiform, tapering gradually 

 to a narrow summit, fully as long as the white or whitisb and softer pappus: stems scapiform, 

 bearing one or two small leaves toward the base and subulate bracts subtending peduncles 

 or simple branches of the panicle: leaves of radical tuft obovatc (o spatulatc, obtuse, entire or 

 minutely denticulate, contracted into short wing-margiiied petioles. — § Clilonomcium, Hchultz 

 Bij). in Bonplandia, 1831. Crepidlfpermum, Fries, Symb. Ihteropleura, Schultz Bip. in Flora, 

 18G1, 434. (Transition to Crepis.) 



H. Pringlei, Gray. Strictly scapose, completely destitute of setose hairs and of glands . 

 leaves wliolly rosulate, very villous-lauate both sides, obovate (2 or 3 inches long) : scape very 

 slender, a foot or more high, minutely soft-pubescent, as also the involucre, loosely paniculate 

 above, bearing few (4 or 5 li::es long) and scattered heads : forming akenes somewhat nar- 

 rowed upward : young pappus soft, bright-white. — Proc. Am. Acad. xix. 69. — S. Arizona, 

 on Santa Pita Mountains, Pringle, Lemmon. Specimens too young. 

 H. Fendleri, Schultz Bip. Subscapose, not rarely one or two leaves toward base of the 

 simple or paniculately branching stem, sjiarscly setose-hirsute, not at all lanate, not gland- 

 ular or only obscurely so on the peduncles: radical leaves spatulate or broader; cauliuo 

 verging to lanceolate, reduced above to linear bracts : heads few and raccmiform-paniculatc, 

 or more numerous and corymbosely disposed, rather long-pedunculate : involucre half-inch 

 high, of 16 to 24 linear bracts and some .short ones, puberulent or glabrate, with or without 

 scattered setose hairs: akenes 2^ to fully 3 lines long, tapering from near the base to sum- 

 mit (at maturity the alternate nerves usually thicker than the others), sometimes reddish, at 

 length commonly blackish: pappus copiou.s, soft, sordid-whitish. — Bonplandia, ix. 173; 

 (iray, 1. c. Crepis ambitjna, Gray, PI. Fendl. 114. — New IMexico, Fendler, Wrirjht, G. It. 

 Vase If. Colorado, Parnj, Ilnll & Harbour. 



Var. discolor, Gray, 1. c. Radical leaves (sometimes large, roundish, and over 2 

 inches broad) purple beneath: pappus nearly pure white. — Santa llita and Iluachuca 

 Mountains, S. Arizona, Lemmon, Princjle, the latter distributed as Hicracium erijthrosjKrmum, 

 Greene, ined., which is the following. 



Var. Mogollense, Gray, 1. c Leaves narrower, hardly if at all purple-tinged: 

 bristly hairs (lis])os(!il to be shorter: jjeduncles minutelj' and spar.sely glandular-setulose : in- 

 volucre smaller (only 5 lines high): innnature akenes reddish: pappus pure white. — //. 

 Irevipilum, Greene in Bull. Torr. Club, ix. 64, first distributed as " Hieraciam crijthrosper- 

 mum." — Mogollyu Mountains, New Mexico, liusbjj. 



