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on the involucres, — sparingly leafy. Leaves about 8-15 cm. long, somewhat reduced in 
length above, pale gree pein eam or lanceolate, cantud thickish in texture, glabrous or 
sparsely puberulent wie ved hairs, the basal and lowest ste m-leaves nar rowed to a ee 
ag eae base, the upper narrowed a the ‘ae He sessile, ee sping, decurrent, often a 
; heads, not including the r 1.5-2 cm. broad on long, rather slender pe eduncles up to 
va nas or sometimes 2- 3 geen ‘receptacle ieee: phyllaries linear-lanceolate, aie 
ate, loosely villous, re Aico: rays 10-18 mm. lon ng, lobed, villous on the back; disk-flowers 
mm. long, gla abrous except for the cee obes, the hairs somewhat purplish brown; achenes 
2 mm. long, hirsute on the ribs; pappus-palea 8, tapering into attenuate awns, the paleae 
1.5-2 mm. long, hones shade one-half to shot one-half the length of the corolla. 
Open rshy meadows or along streams in the foothills and lower mountain slopes, eat Sonoran and 
Transition Sone. southern Josephine and yor Counties, Oregon, south ibreeae the Fe Ranges to San Luis 
Obispo Count and oceurr g in the mountains of southern California; also he Sierra Nevada where the typical 
form is cceasionally Fan gp pi higher re baie within the range of the wack noted below with which it appears 
t Type locality: Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California. June—Aug 
Hel tum iionlere (Greene) Rydb. ayer to be a tall mesophytic form of ‘HL. bigelovii. The leaves are thin 
and oes large, 8-15 em. long, 2.5—4.5 cm. wide, lanceolate or oblanceolate, the basal tapering to a petiolar we 
the upper leaves eek eg more Conte lewattiy decurrent than in H. bi igelovit ; the r ays are 10-15 mm. long; and the 
isk is usually dark brownish purple, sometimes yellow. In wet places throughout the range of H. bigelovii but 
for the most part occurring at higher ee frequent cs the mount — of southern Oregon and northern 
California, the Sierra Nevada particularly in the southern part, and occasional in the mountains of on: a Cali- 
fornia. The type hocatity was not designate 
6. Helenium bolanderi A. Gray. Coast Sneezeweed. Fig. 5347. 
Helenium bolanderi A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 7: 358. 1868. 
Heleniastru gary ey Kunis, ts Gen pi st a 1891, 
Dugaldia grandifiora «#1. 915. 
Helenium bigelovii var. testi abn el = By Calif, 1132, 1925: 
ieee nial 3-7 dm. high with stout to very stout stems, these —e from a heavy caudex 
and usually horizontal roots tock, herbage reddish cee e and often above, villous-tomentose, 
cme densely so especially about the heads, and o n becoming glabr ate in age. Basal 
leaves 7-15 — ong, 1. “eed cm, wide at the bro adest, narr tal obovate a spatulate, tapering to 
a broad, clasping, petioliform base, usually withering at anthesis ; stem-leaves 3-20 cm. long, ovate 
and acute, oblanceolate or broadly lanceolate, reduced upward, sessile ae a broad clasping _ 
not at all or but little de Aneet heads yellow-rayed with a purplish disk, 2 or 3 but 
monly 1 per stem borne n thick peduncles 15. 35 cm. long ehiet are etlteed below ithe hei 
and densely vllows-tomentose; ty 2-3 c¢ road, wider than high, the receptacle baiincheric= 
phyllaries lanceolate, fs 1 ong, ‘Sis oH reflexed in age, villous-tomentose; ray-flowers 
i many, 18-2 i ute 
at the base; pappus-paleae subulate or lanceolate, 6 or 7, often ie Shines an lenehy, slightly more 
than 2 to a little over 3 mm . long, lacinia e below t to le pre tir 
Bogs and wet areas in the coastal terrace, as d Transition Zone; western Coos and Curry Counties, Ore- 
gon, south to Mendocino County, California. Tye locality: Mendocino Cotunty. Collected by Bolander. 
enium bigelovit var. festivum Jepso a for with H. bolanderi and resembling it in the heer 
hemispheric —— saad long pappus-paleae which he Ace Shirds ne aoe as long ae the disk. corollas. It differ 
the agrentay stature, the som — agers slender peduncles, and the long petioliform bases of the lower leaves. os 
Hoax avd atic that it y be of hybrid origin as it often shows characteristics of the mesophytic form ‘a 
igelovit as well as H. helen tant. Sts type locality is designated as Humboldt Bay, Flumboldt County, Californi 
49. BAERIA Fisch. & Mey. Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. 2: 29. (Jan.) 1836. 
Spring annuals (often perennial or biennial in coastal forms), glabrous or variously 
pubescent, the pubescence sometimes of septate or basally jointed hairs. Leaves opposite, 
sessile, often somewhat connate at the base, entire or faciaataly pinnatifid. Heads peduncu- 
late, terminal on the stems and branches, mostly many-flowered. Involucre cylindric to 
usually pubescent within at the tip. Receptacle subulate, conic or hemispheric, coarsely 
muricate to scrobiculate, the depressions conforming to the bases of the achenes. Ray- 
flowers yellow, often deeper yellow toward the base (very rarely white or white-tipped), 
i a 
Style-branches ovate or most often capitate, with or without an apiculate tip. Achene 
usually obscurely 4-angled, somewhat compressed, narrowly clavate to nearly linear. Pappus 
of awns or scales or both or often wanting. [Name in honor of the Russian eaocist, Karl 
Ernst von Baer. 
Se genus of 10 variable species, all natives of the Pacific Slope. Type species, Baeria chrysostoma Fisch. & 
nite — different taxa of specific rank grow in the same locality and even in the same habitat. In addition 
9 aberrant forms occur, some ar. which may be derived from nee pe between otherwise distinct species. 
