398 COMPOSIT A CREPIS 
C. platyphylla Greene Pitt. iii, 27. ‘‘ Related to C. runcinata, simi- 
larly acaulescent, the corymbosely panicled stout’ scape 12 to 18 inches high, 
rather strongly hispid and somewhat glandular: leaves depressed or as- 
cending, oval and oblong to spatulate-oblong, subsessile or short petioled, 
mostly 4 to 6 inches long, often 3 in breadth, obtuse, coarsely and remotely, 
often somewhat runcinately toothed, green and glabrous ahove: involucre 
4 or 5 lines high, very hispid, slightly glandular: achenes dark brown, ob- 
long-fusiform, slightly contracted toward the summit, sharply 10-ribbed. 
Moist mountain meadows of southern Idaho and northern Utah.”’ 
C. subcarnosa Greene |. c. 107. ‘‘ Stout and low, more or less pubes- 
cent, slightly succulent, the scape about a foot high, bearing at summit 
few and long-peduncled heads: leaves of spatulate- oblanceolate outline, 
obtuse or acutish, saliently but not runcinately toothed: peduncles and 
involucre glandular-hispid: slender-fusiform achenes tapering ; pappus fine 
fragile. Meadows along the Humboldt River at Deeth and elsewhere in 
eastern Nevada, thence northward to southern Idaho.”’ 
C. acuminata Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. soc. vii, 437. Minutely cinere- 
ous-pubescent below, but green: stems slender, 1-3 feet high, 1-3-leaved, 
bearing a fastigiate or corymbiform cyme of numerous small heads: leaves 
elongated, peut peer oblong-lanceolate in outline, laciniate-pinnati- 
fid, tapering to both ends, the apex usually into a lanceolate or linear pro- 
longation : involucre narrow-cylindraceous, 4-6 lines long, rarely more than 
6-flowered, of 5-8 principal bracts, glabrous, or the few minute bractlets 
tomentulose: mature achenes fusiform, considerably longer than the pa 
pus, lightly striate-costate moderately attenuate at summit. Dry ground, 
eastern Oregon to California, Utah and Montana. 
C. intermedia Gray Syn. Fl. i pt 2, 432. Cinereous-puberulent: stems 
1-2 feet high, 1-3-leaved, terminating in a rather few-flowered corymb or 
paniculate cyme: leaves elongated, slender-petioled, oblong-lanceolate in 
outline, laciniate-pinnatifid, tapering to both ends, involucre half-inch or 
more high, canescently puberulent ; its bracts in age carinate by thickening 
of the midrib: achenes acutely 10-costate when mature, oblong-fusiform, 
slightly attenuate upward, longer than or equalling the pappus. Eastern 
Washington and Brit. Columbia to California and the Rocky Mauntains. 
C. occidentalis Nutt. Journ. Acad. Philad. vii, 29. Canescent with 
a close scurfy tomentum ; stems usually 4-18 inches high, solitary or 2 or 
3 from a single caudex, corymbosely branched above, rarely from near the 
base, often with glandular bristly hairs above: leaves from runcinately 
toothed to deeply pinnatifid, or somewhat bipinnatifid; the lower and rad- 
ical 4-10 inches lone: narrowed into petioles; the upper sessile and slightly 
clasping: heads few to several, corymbosely panicled: involucre 6-8 lines 
high, cylindraceous, its principal bracts linear and acute, with several 
small ovate to subulate calyculate ones at their base, all canescent with 
close minute tomentum, and often with a few short bristles: achenes fusi- 
form, truncate at the apex, 10-18-costate. On dry plains and hillsides, 
Brit. Columbia to California and Colorado. East of the Cascade Mountains. 
C. monticola Coville Cont. Nat. Herb. iii, 562. Crinitely pubescent 
with long brownish glanduliferous hairs: stems stout, usually solitary, 
freely branching, 6-12 inches high: leaves oblong to broadly lanceolate 
in outline, 2-4 inches long, acute, narrowed below to short petioles or 
narrow sessile base; sometimes with merely dentate margins, sometimes 
deeply pinnatifid with toothed or even pinnatifid lobes: involucre 8-10 
lines high, narrow-campanulate ; its principal bracts narrowly lanceolate, 
acuminate, nearly or quite equalling the ligules. Dry hillsides, southern 
Oregon to California. 
C. séopulorum Coville 1. c. 563, Scantily tomentose, usually glabrate 
