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cuneate and few-toothed to lyrately pinnatifid, thickish in 
texture, glabrous or at first tomentulose and more or less 
glabrate and, as well as the stem, often purplish; uppermost 
leaves reduced to sessile lanceolate entire bracts; heads 1 to 
3, relatively large, 1.5 to 2 em. high, radiate; involucre cam- | 
panulate, calyculate, glabrous or tomentulose at the base; 
bracts of the involucre 13 to 21, narrowly lanceolate; rays light 
yellow; disk-flowers numerous; mature achenes 5 mm. long, 
strongly ribbed, glabrous. 
Distribution: southern California. 
Specimens examined: 
California: precipitous sides of Bear Creek, above Cork- 
screw Falls, San Bernardino Mountains, 22 June, 1895, 
Parish 3604 (Gray Herb.); dry woods, San Bernardino 
Mountains, alt. 1675 m., Aug., 1904, Williamson (Phil. Acad. 
Nat. Sci. Herb. and C. S. Williamson Herb.) ; Wilson's Peak, 
Los Angeles Co., coll. of 1893, Davidson (Greene Herb., Univ. 
of Notre Dame) ; hillside, under pines, South Fork of Santa 
Ana River, alt. 1920 m., 27 June, 1906, Grinnell 256 (U. S. 
Nat. Herb.); Swartout Cafion, desert slopes of the San 
Gabriel Mountains, 5 July, 1908, Abrams € McGregor 647 
(U. S. Nat. Herb.). 
Var. sparsilobatus (Parish) Hall, Univ. Calif. Pub. Bot. 3: 
232. 1907. 
S. sparsilobatus Parish, Bot. Gaz. 38: 462. 1904. 
S. intrepidus Greenm. in herb. 
Stems one to several from a stout or stoutish rootstock, 1 to 
2 dm. high; leaves chiefly basal, obovate-cuneate and suben- 
tire to lyrately pinnatifid into few rounded or obtusely den- 
tate lateral lobes, including the petiole 1.5 to 5 em. long, .5 
to 1.5 em. broad, thick and firm in texture; heads few, smaller 
than in the species, 1 to 1.5 em. high. 
Specimens examined: 
California: trail to South Fork of Santa Ana River via 
Barton Falls, alt. 2285 m., 28 Aug., 1905, Charlotte N. Wilder 
244 (U. S. Nat. Herb.); Lyttle Creek Cafion, San Antonio 
Mountains, alt. 1830 m., 1-3 June, 1900, Hall 1456 (Field Mus. 
