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pe sea except toward base, et ge ciliolate, rather firm, feather-veined; stem-leaves few, 
milar or lanceolate, 7-15 cm. long, the upper entire, all narrowed at base; heads solitary or few 
linesiedunclal medium-sized ; involucre broadly campanulate, 2 cm. high, subequal, the phyllaries 
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achenes about 7 mm. long, glabrous; pappus a eee cro 
Ridges and prairies, Transition Zones; North Coast Ranges of California in eastern Humboldt adjacent 
Trinity, and nort eastern Mendocino Counties. Type locality: prairies ~y ark Humboldt County. May-July. 
12. Wyethia amplexicatlis Nutt. Northern Mule-ears. Fig. 5141. 
Espeletia amplexicau lis Nutt. Journ. Acad. Phila. 7: 38. 1834 
Wyethia amplexicaulis Nutt. Trans. Amer. Phil. ee _ tf 352, 1840. 
Silp ? laeve Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. 6: 244. 
W yethia lanceolata Howell, FI. yee Amer. 341. se 
W yethia emplecicouhe subsp. major Piper, Proc. ys Pie Wash. 27: 98, 1914. 
W yethia subsp. pices ti iver, loc. 
Stout eae glabrous and more or ae balsamic-resinous throughout, often vernicose, from 
a pepru: fusiform caudex, the stems ascending, 3-8 dm. high, essentially simple, leafy. Basal sha 
short petioles, these usually margined above, the blades oblong, elliptic- ‘oblong or obovat 
5137. Wyethia mollis 5139. Wyethia angustifolia 
5138. Wyethia helianthoides 5140. Wyethia longicaulis 
