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Heads fongetied in terminal glomerules, very large, the pbieedivg argent 
bracts deltoid-lanceolate and usually exceeding them; involucre 8-15 m 
igh a stems stout, not tall, the branches, if any, sryarigate. : 
. M. capitata. 
Ray-flowers 0-3; ray-achenes broadest at middle, truncate at both ends with broad areola. 
6. 
M. glomerata. 
Disk-flowers 1 (or 2), glabrous, phyllary embracing the achehe and sulcate to tip; tiny herbs. 
ay-achenes laterally compressed, with sharp ventral angle, glabrous; involucre ek. "ies 
glandular, the glands ye ann te: 
Ray-achenes obcompressed, init angled, pubescent; involucre minutely stipitate-glandul the glands 
black. “18. M.m 
1. Madia bolanderi (A. Gray) A. Gray. Bolander’s Madia. Fig. 5252. 
Anitsocarpus bolanderi A, Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 7: 360. 1868. 
Madia bolanderi A. a op. cit. 8: 391. 1872. 
Perennial herb with woody rootstocks ; stem si imple, 5-12 dm. high, densely hirsute to glabrate 
below, strongly tptate -glandular above. Leaves s entire, hirsute, linear, attenuate, the basal crowded 
into an erect tuft, the lower are connate, 10-30 cm. long, 4-12 mm. wide, the cauline often abruptly 
reduced in size oe rater: S Boonies few, openly corymbose, terminating peduncles up to 25 cm. 
long; involucre campanulat cae mispheric ; ray-flowers 8-12; disk-flowers 30-65; ray-achenes 
5.7-6.5 mm. long, ne ‘ged 5 ay a rely $ nerved, neta oi en - a somewhat pr aries 
disk-achenes 6-8 mm. long, 5-angled, tawny-hispid ; — tary, of dis 
of 5-10 ae atieeaaite rs lance- eating ciliate, tei a as lea = a 
Damp mountain meadows or along streamways, Transition Zone; Cascade-Sierr e County, 
Oregon, to Tulare County, California; rok in Scott and Marble Mountains — “Trinity Selig Cites tyes 
locality: Mariposa Big-tree Grove, Mariposa County, California. July—Sept 
5250. ‘oie carnosa 5252. Madia bolanderi 
5251. Layia heterotricha 5253. Madia madioides 
