156 COMPOSITAE 
1. Lagophylla minor (Keck) Keck. Lesser Hareleaf. Fig. 5231. 
Lagophylia dichotoma subsp. minor Keck, Madrofio 3: 16, 1935. 
Lagophylla minor Keck, Aliso 4: 105. 1958. 
Slender herb 1-3 dm. high, the ie Policing ee at least in upper half, to form an open 
corymbose crown, the ultimate twig y dark, strigose. Leaves linear, some tapering to bas 
up to 5.5 cm. long and 3 mm. wide, eg except . the basal, narrowly involute, soon deciduous 
strigulose-puber te st becoming hirsute-ciliate toward the heads ; inflorescence bearing few or no 
stalked glands, if present, not extending down the peduncles; involucre 4-5 mm. high, pilose, vi 
phyllaries long-ciliate on the angles with “wai almost as long as bract is wide, acuminate; ra 
— smooth and eeny bial a 81.3 mm. wide. 
poi aig slopes of the foothills, Upper Sonoran Zone; Inner North Coast Range from Glenn Cou unty 
o Nap: unty and on the bala cosh of reine County, California. Type locality: Pope Creek, just 
ae OE wane Spring, Napa County. 1—-May 
2. Lagophylla dichotoma Benth. Forking Hareleaf. Fig. 5232. 
Lagophylia dichotoma Benth. Pl. Hartw. 317. 1849. 
touter than L. minor, 1.5-6 dm. high. Inflorescence bearing few to -many evident stalked 
glands, these extending down the peduncles involucre 4.5-5.8 mm. high, hispid-hirsute, the hairs 
much shorter than the width ‘of the acu e bracts ray-achenes blackish or ehtly al a gens with 
cellular surface, with 20-30 striae on op ig e, 1.4-1.9 mm. wide. 
Rather rare, in grassy places in the valleys and sea Upper ch n Zone; east side of the Central Valley 
from Butte County to Tulare Bose and in the Inner South Coast Ratige | from San Benito County of gaa 
County, California. Type locality: Sacramento Valley (probably in what is now Butte Coun ty). April 
3. Lagophylla ei aduttad A. Gray. Glandular Hareleaf. Fig. 5233. 
Lagophylla glandulosa A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 17: 219, 1882. 
Stem 1-10 or 15 dm. high, simple or paniculately branched, the plant slender or bushy with 
neven crown; herbage danecis apprese alae and distinctly glandular. Lower leaves ete 
oblincselile to seid i lost before flow ing, 3-12 cm. long, 5-12 mm. wide, parities leaves bear- 
ing fascicles or sho st erile shoots in their axils, i lg aducous, reduc ed to bracts upward 
heads on short peduncles ; involucre turbinate, 5-7 mm. hi gh; ligules 8-13 m m. long, 6-9 mm. wide, 
pia sie lateral ay ounded, much wider ean the ai one; sie-aghnnek leat cai 
Hot dry slopes, Pisces nt sea Zone; common in the pee ba eaten from Shasta County to Kern County 
and occasional in the upper sa ma pt Valley and in Mendocino County, California. Type locality: “California, 
a ae Sierra Nevada from Auburn to near the Y aaa a ” July et, 
ophylla clainhitans subsp. ei (Greene) Keck, Aliso 4: 105. 1958. (Lagophylla serrata Greene, 
Bull. Lacon! Acad. 1: 280. 1886.) Inconspicuous herb 1-6 dm. high, simple or dg had ascending branches, 
almost glandless below the crown; leaves ae fascicles or sterile shoots in their axil e lower often persistent 
after time of pak perp —_ few, bes short elongated, very slender peduncles; cell ade’ 4.75-6 mm. high; 
Hod mE a2 Tay —3.2 mm. long. A seasonal palin growing with the species. Type locality : Grass Valley, Nevada 
ow ay— 
4. Lagophylla ramosissima Nutt. Common Hareleaf. Fig. 5234. 
Lagophyile ramosissima Nutt . Trans, Amer. Phil. Soc. II. 7: 391. 1841. 
ell. iii Calif. Acad. 5: 1873. 
Legophylla hillmani A. Nels. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 17: 98. 1904. 
Stiffly erect, 2-10(-15) dm. high, racemosely or paniculately branched above, sometimes from 
the , rarely simple ; herbage grayish or dull green, densely ede siege or white-sericeous, 
the grease: ager lice. stipitate glands confined to upper leaves and heads. Leaves as in L. glan du- 
losa; heads short-peduncled - subsessile, racemosely disposed along ‘the branchlets and in. small 
pets at _— ends ; involucre 4.4-6.7 mm. high, the lanceolate abe densely villous-ciliate 
the angles ; ray-achen ee eiavaie wad slightly arcuate, 2. m. lon 
bun pee: in open stacks in hard dry soils, Sonoran and ice eth e Sentai: Washington and western 
— south to San Diego County, Saliforsie, and aectherh and western Nevada. Type locality: ‘In the prairies 
r Walla-Walla, in Oregon’’ (possibly in what is now Washin ngton). May—Oct. 
5. Lagophylla congésta Greene. Rabbit-foot. Fig. 5235. 
eo — Greene, Bull. Torrey Club 10: 87. 
Lagophylla ramosissima var. congesta Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Calif. 539. 1901. 
Lagophylla ramosissima subsp. — Keck, Madrofio 3: 16. 1935. 
Similar to L. ramosissima except more robust, the heads densely congested in compact glo- 
merules 1.5-6 cm. — the slomerules intone gs terminal or in interrupted spikes or more rarely 
on short _— branches racemosely ged, the steens usually simple ; involucre 5-7 .5 mm. high. 
Hot, open slopes with L. ramosissima, wala Sonoran Zone; from Humboldt County to S soe Cruz 
ot and i tea Eldorado County to Stanislaus County, California. Type locality : 2 pie ont County. May- 
28. HOLOZONIA Greene, Bull. Torrey Club 9: 122, 145. 1882. 
Perennial herb, hemicryptophyte, with elongated fleshy rootstocks. Stems erect, usually 
