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tem commonly branched above or throughout, 1.5-9 dm. high, fistulous, ny ree: Leh peal 
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pubescent. Leaves linear- en olate, acuminate, peered and often hirsute, the low cm 
long, 4-15 mm. wide, the upper gradually r educed in size and broadest at the ba ASE } oan many, 
in an irregular compound cyme; involucre depres een pheric, 4.5-6.5 mm. high, bearing 
glands on pustulate — my additionally crisped-pubescent or pilose ; ray-flowers 8-16, bo- 
vate ligules long; disk-flowers 20-65, the anthers yellow; ray-achenes 3.3-4.2 mm. 
long, flattened, pi aac a achenes 3.2 1 ng. 
Grassy foothills, Upper Scuices Zone; Inner South Coast Range from eastern Contra Costa County to west- 
ern Kern County, California. Type locality: iouh of the ts Joaquin River. March—-May 
8. Madia élegans D. Don ex Lindl. Common Madia. Fig. 5259. 
Madia elegans D. Don ex Lindl. Bot. eg a7: pl. 1458. 183%, 
Madaria elegans DC. Prod. 5: 692. sage 
_ racemosa Nutt. Trans. Amer. er Soc. IT. 7: 386. 
ria elegans var. Tsignics Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. ie 1868. 
ispi ‘217. 1891. 
Fran. 418. 1897. 
Madia villosa Eastw. Proc. Calif. Acad. III. 2: 293. 
Madia elegans var. hisbiite H. M. Hall, Univ. Calif. Pe Sik 3: F47..-1907. 
monly corymbosely branching above, 2-8 dm. high, villous below, happened to 
densely Slondulat Shame Leaves linear to broadly lanceolate, the basal ahd mall rosette, 
ced; voluc 
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tenuate tips * the phyllaries equaling the basal portion; ray-flowers the ligules 
long, yellow or with maroon blotch at base; disk- reba 25 or more, yellow or maroon; ne se: 
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purple 
slopes, m w borders, Transition and oe ig Fons seo — Oregon to Lower California, largely 
west oe: the gets ado pars The wering tane ecotype. Type locality: ‘‘North-west coast of 
North America.” June—Aug. 
Madia elegans subsp. vernalis Keck, Aliso 4: 108. 1958. Stem simple to openly branching throughout, 3-8 
dm. high, the herbage sparingly pubescent to dbinly hispid or pilose, sparingly glandular below the inflorescence; 
basal rosette scarcely developed, cauline leaves scattered; heads large, remaining open longer through the day 
than the other iuheetive caalcerioesring flowers all yellow, rarely with maroon blotch at base of ligules; anthers 
black. Valley floors and foothills, Upper Sonoran and Transition Z ones; northern pene so ae to Kern and San 
Luis Obispo Counties, California. The spring- Roeerue lowland ecotype. Type locality: east of Clarksville, 
Eldorado County, California. March—June. 
adia elegans subsp. densifdlia (Greene) Keck, Madrojio 3: 1935. (Madaria corymbosa DC. Pro d. 
5: 692. 1836; Madia corymbosa Greene, ey oe 2: 218. oar Mu densifolia Greene, Fl. Fran. 417. 1897 
M. Shapes var. ie hoon « ae epson, Fl. W. Mid. Calif. 528. 1.) Stem stout, usually branching well above the 
middle form a corymbose panicle, to 25 dm. high, a a strongly glandular- pubescent above; basal leaves 
for ie ? large rosette, the age cauline closely imbricated, densely villous or hirsute, the upper scattered, 
strongly = and pubescent; involucre broad, to 12 mm. eek. te. Pei of the phyllaries often exceeding the 
basal i ; r usually with maroon blotch at : 
ee elegans subsp. oat eri (A. Gray) Keck, Aliso 4: 108. 1958. (Hemizonia wheeleri A. Gray, Bot. 
Calif. 1: 617. 1880; Madia tenella Greene, *Pittonia Sz 167. 1897; M. wheeleri ogg Madrofio 3: 4. 1935.) 
tem slender, simple or er gowns divaricately branching from the middle, 1-4.5 igh, moderately villous, 
spare? glandular; basal r small or none, cauline hinge scattered: ao aor scattered and solitary 
m leafy peduncles or in leaty pare not closing; involucre 4.5-5.5 mm. high, the phyllaries three-fourths 
enclosing ray- Spr ae villous, inconspicuously yellow- glandular, pied tip shorter prot the basal portion; ligules 
4-5 mm. long, fl abellifo orm, yellow; disk-flowers yellow; —— yellow, with rounded Rod gg appen ndage eS; ray- 
achenes much less laterally compressed, br ~<coabapies Gravelly ntainsides rid Transition Zone to Hudsonian 
Zone; southern lag ried Nevada and Mou to San her ay Mountains, California; re Sierra Juarez, Lower 
alifornia. Type locality: Mondthe py tli “Tulare County. June—Aug 
9. Madia citriodéra Greene. Lemon-scented Madia. Fig. 5260. 
Madia citriodora Greene, Bul. pug ee 9: 63. 1882. 
Hemizonia citriodora A. Gray, Syn. N. Amer. 1°: 307. 1884. 
Stem usually simple below, corymbosely or subumbellately branching above, rather slender, 
2-7 dm. high, villous- rg: especialy below, with black sree glands above. Leaves not 
crowded, linear, the low m. mm. hie ; heads orymbose Rextite: ge 
broadly turbinate to hem Sival-cocmaete. 6-8 mm. high, villcdis-hirsute: ces glandular ; ray- 
flowers 5-12; disk-flowers 15-50; anthers black ; ray-achenes 3.3-4.4 mm. long, the itera} eawies 
rounded: 
Dry open slopes, Upper Sonoran and Arid Transition Zones; central Washington and Oregon south to Amador 
and Napa Counties, California. Type locality: hills about Yreka, Siskiyou County, California. May-July. 
10. Madia anomala Greene. Plump-seeded Madia. Fig. 5261. 
Madi la Greene, Bull. Calif. wap A 91. 1885. 
omala A. Gray, Sy. F 1. N. Amer. ed. 2. 12: 451. 1886. 
pena siaifiore var. anomala Jepson, FI. W. Mid. Calif, ed. 2. 441, 1911. 
Stem slender, usually flexuously = from the middle, 2-5 dm. high, glandular > ni 
upper half; her bage rather anthocyanous. Leaves not very crowded, villous, the upper on 
