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denda 1: 44. 1927; A. glabrior Suksd. loc. cit.; A. baybuts Suksd. loc. cit.) Differing from the tyoiest subspecies 
oe ace hing in the smaller flowers (1.5-3.5 mm. long In hotter and Pend ey aoe pe in dappled shade in 
the southern part of the range; pst hdl California and — inland coastal valleys north a Cone pero ag 
to the Columbia Gorge, and in Arizona. Type localit rthern Lower California. Collect oe by Orcutt 
4. KENTRANTHUS Neck. Elem. 1:'122. 1790. 
Perennial or annual, glabrous herbs with simple or pinnatifid leaves and large, termi- 
nal, thyrsiform inflorescences. Calyx inrolled in flow < penn ming a large plumose pappus 
in fruit. Corolla- tube usually with a long spur, the limb . somewhat zygomorphic. Stamen 1. 
Fruit somewhat compressed, Fie ad by the persistent hatase calyx. [Name from the 
Greek, meaning spurred flow 
enus of about 12 species in ee Mediterranean region. Type species, Valeriana rubra L. 
1, Kentranthus ruber (L.) DC. Jupiter’s Beard or Red Valerian. Fig. 5065. 
Kentranthus ruber DC, in Lam. & DC. FI. Franc. ed. 3. 4: 238. 1805. 
Glabrous and somewhat glaucous, perennial herb to 1 m. high. Leaves simple, entire or rarely 
oothed, ovate: to seneshlate! to 10 cm. long, sessile; inflorescence 4 a gg a paniculiform cyme elon- 
gating in fruit ; calyx-limb with 5- 13 linear plumose lobes long; oo evan magenta, 
or white, with a prominent spur at the base, about 16 mm. long including ¢ the s A 
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