132 COMPOSITAE 
2. Coreopsis gigantéa (Kell.) H. “es Hall. Giant Coreopsis. Fig. 5190. 
rreciluentaag mgenren Kell. or Calif. Acad. 4: 198. 
H. M. Hall, Univ. Calif. Pub. Bot. 3: 142, 907. 
Tacheveauidia gigantea M. re Jones, Contr. West. Bot. No. 15: 74. 1929. 
tout, fleshy-woody, glabrous perennial 3-30 dm. high, the stem up to 1 dm. thick or ase 
branched ‘only above, the branches ae or neti ng, leafy only toward the ends. Leave 
alternate, deltoid or ovate in aa ce up to 3 dm. long, bi- to pat we goes dissected into ro seh or 
narrowly linear, fleshy, obtuse lobes 0. =i mm. Guu: heads 4-6 cm. wide, golden-yellow, 
mosely clustered toward tips of branches on Rare usually 1-1.5 dm me ie involucre essentially 
as in C. maritima; rays about 13, —2 cm. long; disk-corollas with puber ulous annulus 
tacular bracts 2-10 mm. long, linear, sok a Aa callous-thickened taiows falling tenets 
from the achenes ; achitties oval to oblong, 5-7 mm. long, glabrous, body of the achene and the 
narrow Wyias brown, epappose. 
Sand and sea cliffs, Upper Sonoran and ee umid Transition nes; coast of southern California from 
San Luis Ones, and Santa Barbara Counties to Los Angeles clase te adjacent agile (except San Clemente 
aa also Guadalupe Island, Lower California. ae locality: near Cuyler Harbor, San Miguel Island, Santa 
arbara County. Collected iy Harford. March—-May 
3. Coreopsis bigelévii (A. Gray) H. M. Hall. Bigelow’s Coreopsis. Fig. 5191. 
Pugiopappus bigelovii A. Gray, ~— R. Rep. 4: 104. 1857. 
Leptosyne bigelovit A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Amer. 12: 300. 1884. 
Coreopsis bigelovii H. M. Hall, ak Calif. Pub. Bot. 3: 141. 1907. 
Erect, essentially glabrous, apres or subscapose annual, 3-60 cm. high, the scapose or scapi- 
form stems m mostly 5-10, naked or very rarely s sparsely leafy for ae -third their length. Leaves 
chiefly or entirely ina basal tuft, ov ate fe deltoid i in outline, 2-12 cm. long including sites 8 fleshy, 
e segments 2 cm. long or 
so in 
outer ski 57, linear or lance-linear, obtuse, 4— ; ; 
what sit , brown with narrow yellow margin; rays about 8- 0, obovate or wedge-obovate, 
ong; dis be orollas with puberulous annulus; receptacular bracts 4-10 mm. Jong, lance- 
olen or eve olate, heatine: falling with the disk-achenes; ray-achenes about 5 mm. long, ob- 
ovate-oblong, glabrous or = sentially so, epappose, often becoming corky-winged and cor rky-ribbed ; 
disk-achenes es long, about 6 mm. long, densely villous- ciliate, glabrous to Soaracle villous 
on the faces; pappus of 2 Shartesed. ficcatake. persistent paleae 2- 2s Ge ng. 
rt ikees — hillsides, Sonoran Zones; west of eed Sierra Nevada n Califor a from Fresno and Mon- 
oO 
Pients ‘of the Southern Sierra Nevada and the Tehachap bisa! da ns are rather toarke and leafy- 
stemmed but have tic linear outer phyllaries of C. b 
4. Coreopsis hamilténii (Elmer) H. K. Sharsmith. Mount Hamilton Coreopsis. 
Fig. 5192. 
pt hamilt — Bot. Gaz. 41 906. 
Coreopsis hamilt H. K. Sharsmith, gee 214. 1938. 
Erect, ~— S ne dese annual 10-15 cm. high, scapose, sometimes branching at the base 
the scapes mostly 10-15. Leaves all basal or ey basal, 1-5 cm. long, spreading, bipinnate into 
short, linear, seve lobes ; eats 1-2 cm. broad, golden-yellow, the rays reflexed; outer phyllaries 
dly li ru inner 
. lor arrow en 
mm. long, meniscoidal, obovate, brown or mottled with brown, both the dy and marginal wings 
smooth a a acsoat wl disk-achenes 5-6 mm. ee narrowly obovate, both faces more 
or less Silas the ns = villous-ciliate ; pappus of 2 persistent paleae 1 mm. lo 
Mo 
Agarista calliopsidea DC. — 5: 569. 1836 
Coreopsis calliopsidea A. G + Bot. Mie. Bound. 90. 1859. 
Leptosyne calliopsidea A. Gray. 8 Fl. N. Amer. 12: 300. 1884. 
: Erect, essentially ‘cobroas ana 1-4.5 dm. high, stenns 73 stout Anweiad sparsely leafy on . 
third to one-half Te r length and with less pronounced basal tufts of leaves. Leaves deltoid i 
$a te on upper t vate -) cm. long; disk- 
corollas with bearded a ge us; receptacular ae bot ong, broadly linear, obtuse, hyaline, 
falling separatély from t e aghenes; ray-achenes 5-6 mm. long, broadly oval, tan or bro 
winged, glabrous, noth a with a thick ae: coceriag: epappose ; disk-achenes 6-7 mm. long, 
