118 COMPOSITAE 
conic, the receptacular bracts narrow, + purplish above, ee cy apex ; style-branches with 
subulate hispidulous appendages ; achenes 1.8-2 mm. long, appos 
In meadows or disturbed areas, native eae erred - aad United States seat in the Pacific States 
in Washington, and in ey spnaiecin in se central Sierr evada and Mendocino County in the North Coast Ranges. 
Type locality: Virginia; Canada. e-Sept. For ach ihe synonymy, see Perdue, Rhodora 59: 296. 1957 
2. Rudbeckia califérnica A. Gray. California Rudbeckia. Fig. 5165. 
Rudbeckia californica A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 7: 357. 1868 
out perennial, about 1 m. high, stem usually simple, — my apie above, foliage 
ea 
se, e .5 cm. long, ab 
elongate-conic, the Teceptacular bracts acute or obtusish, canescent- puberulous toward the tip ; 
style-appendages triangular-ovate, obtusish, hispidulous ; achenes oblique at base, 4-5 mm. long 
p a Ww ot ed crown 1 mm. lon 
Moist places, Canadian Zone; Sierra seevalic California, from Eldorado County to Kern County. Type lo- 
cality: Werweas Grove, pS malo National Park. Jul 
Rudbeckia couieenice var. glauca Blake, Tour. “Wash. Acad. 21: 330. 1931. (Rudbeckia glaucescens 
Eastw. Leaflets West. Sai oh ISY « 2) Leaves glaucous, tuberculate-hispidulous on margin, otherwise glabrous, 
entire or obscurely denticuiate: phyllaries hispidulous on Nectaie. ce or nearly so on back. Douglas County, 
Oregon, to Del Norte and Siskiyou ‘Counties, California. Type locality: on road to Grants Pass, 20 miles northeast 
of Crescent City, Del Norte County 
nd ckia californ intermédia Perdue, Sgr 59: 289. 1957. Similar to R. californica var. 
glauca; leaf-blades of che. faer Heaves 1.5—2 dm. long, the margins irregular, either crenate, dentate, or —— 
Custinias ciliate, otherwise gla — s. Mountains of Si Fag County, California, at 3,500-—5, 000 feet. T ype local- 
ity: Mount Eddy, Siskiyou Cou 
3. Rudbeckia alpicola Piper. Washington Rudbeckia. Fig. 5166. 
Rudbeckia alpicol sg “agar ea 7: 173. 1899 
Rudbeckia id alpicola Cronquist, Vans. Pl. Pacif. Northw. 5: 280. 1955, 
Stout ‘ladaat: babies t 1 m. high, stem usually simple, somewhat pilose at least toward the 
Upper leaves ovate, entire or merely toothed, the others ovate or deltoid in outline, pin- 
or -parte d, or so me 
nately 3-9-lobed d, with ovate g, minat entire, toothed, or sometimes 
basally pinnatifid lobes, roughish above, spreading-pilo neath especially along the nerves an 
oO dersurface, rather glabrate in age, the lower long-petioled, the u per sessile, the larger 
—20 ; involucre about 2-3 long, ar to lanceolate, acuminate, soon 
reflexed phyllaries; mature dis rk purplish brown, subcylindric, 2.5-6 
hick; receptacular bracts obtuse, cinereous-pilosulose toward the tip; style- bra: nches clavately 
dilated toward apex, with Saag, a obtusish, hispidulous appendages; achenes oblique 
at base, 3.8-4 mm. long; pappus 0.5-0.7 mm. high, coroniform and irregularly ephed 6 a tetueed 
essentially to 2-3 fe th. 
untain slo tion and Canadian Zones; ee Range, Chelan and Kittitas Counties, Washing- 
ton. Tre locality: pa Mk rane Kittitas County. July— 
4. Rudbeckia occidentalis Nutt. Niggerheads. Fig. 5167. 
Rudbecki identalis Nutt. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc, II. 7: 355. 1840. 
Stout perennial, 0.5-2 m. high, stem SB oatiege glabrous or sparsely a Gertie heagra scent above, 
poner simple. Lower leaves deg vate to lanceolate, long-petioled, cuneate to unequ ually 
ordate at base, entice. to serrate aii teave es usually broadly ovate, 7-20 fet si , acuminate, 
cuneate roa B ins e at base, sessile or short-petiol oarsely repand- 
serrate to entire, very rarely deeply 3—5-lobed, triplinerved, usually de gree ao mip at least 
neath, with some pilose hairs when young, rarely glabrous; heads 1 n elongate peduncles ; 
involucre about 2-seriate, 1-3 cm. long, the hyllaries very unequal, tear to oblong-ovate, her- 
pagers usually reflexed in age; receptacle becoming subcylindric, the receptacular bracts obtuse 
a sihescinnc toward tip; disk purple-brown or ean at first subglobose, becomin 
: long, a - 1.5 cm. thic k; ele beaches with short, obtuse, ovate, hispidulous ap- 
commas’ achenes very obli ique at —, 4.5 mm. long; pappus coroniform, irregularly and shal- 
lowly lobed or ; ane about 0.7 m ane. 
Mountain slopes and along bicuaiada treams, Arid Transition Zone; eastern Washington to Montana and 
Utah and south in the Sierra Nevada, California, ra Placer County. Type ease de _ hee Mountains and woods 
of the Oregon, particularly in the Blue Mountain range, by small streams.”” July—Se 
6. HELIANTHELLA Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Amer. 2: 333. 1842. 
Herbaceous, more or less leafy-stemmed pernnials with stout taproots and branch- 
ing caudex. Leaves alternate or opposite, oblong to lanceolate or linear, entire, usually 
triplinerved, the basal and lower usually larger and petioled, the others often sessile. Heads 
solitary or few (in ours), medium or large, radiate, the rays yellow, the disk yellow, 
