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mewhat rounded above, smooth or with minute yellowish papillae or coarse hairs; pappus 
completely i rah or 2-7 clear or brownish, slender, subulate awns of variable lengths, often as 
long as the achen 
Aerie and oe eal Upper Sonoran and Humid Transition Zones; Curry County, Oregon, southward 
mostly on the c and in the Outer Coast Ranges to Santa Barbara County, geo tm — extending into 
Inner Coast Manges. hone it merges with B. eeeeeottoué subsp. graci is and arch May.” other named form 
ra 
Baeria chrysostoma subsp. niveatatit prpotes Ferris, Fcgalte Dudl ey Her Es 958. (Lasthenta hirsutula 
aust at, Bay Reg. 206. 1894; Bato ee Greene, we tie 438. iioy j x its characteristic form 
2.5-10 cm. tall, rather stout, muc sid base mea ee width of the nts sometimes 
greater than the height, more Beis a ret pi ee rt- “5 then h sone t and also more ne ee : str rh ed 
leaves 10-20 mm. long, oblong- gierulate or Kasae- erty rounded at oe Qs very rarely with 1 minu 
spreading lobes; phyllaries about 5 m at ng, usually broader than those of the preceding —. ettaditen parinate 
in age, the wa evident i oe wr out 5 mm. long, typically broadly oblong; achenes as in B. chrysostoma 
subsp. chrysostoma, smooth or with state coarse, yellowish "isits, epappose or with 2-4 pa or brownish, ies er, 
subulate awns as long as the disk-flowers. Coastal terraces and dunes Ed among rocks, from Mendocino County, 
California, to San ios Obispo Ton unty and the Channel Islands, Santa Barbara County. Type locality: not given, 
but ond to grow “‘from Marin Co. southward.” 
sibly interbreeding with B. chrysostoma Rovvag tiie ey to with which it grows. Forms occur frequently 
ave pre usly combine the characteristics of both taxa. On the coast of San Mateo County specimens having 
large heads and broad leaves but annual roots appear to te intergrades with the B. macrantha complex. 
aeria chrysostoma yaaa gracilis (DC.) Ferris, contr Dudley Herb. 5: 100. 1958. seaside gracilis DC. 
Prod. 5: 664. 1836; B. ten a DC., loc.cit.: #. Jong ifolia Nutt. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc Ve 7: 380. 1841; B. 
pee Nutt. op. cit. 381: Ss hired Nutt. loc ae a gracilis A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. se 196. 1874: 
palmeri A. Gray, Bot. Calif. 1: 376. _— 4 “gracti vat. - palenene K- Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. : 21. 1883; 
B. clevelandti A. Gray, op. cit ae - B var tener Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Amer. is 326. 1884; 
palmeri var. clementina A. Gra Ff ya 2. 12; 452. 1886: B chrysostoma var. gracilis H. M. Hall, Univ. 
Calif. tem nee A 170. 1907; B. ichrssostoma var. graci lis £, nuda all, loc. cit.; B. chrysostoma var. gracilis 
. tenerrima H Hall, op. cit chrysostoma _ gracilis e ‘paleacea H. M. Hall, loc. itt B, poe s 
eh pide £; Perit ch H. M. Tot loc . cit.; B. chrysostoma var. gracilis f. crassa H. M. Hall. op. cit. 172; 
chrysostoma var. gracilis f. curta H. M. Hall, loc. cit.). Slender aaa 1—2 dm. high, in the peer 1 form strigose 
throughout with some spreading or ascending bee present, more conspicuously pubes: etn on the pales heads, 
and leaves; leaves 8—15(20 ae jones: w sually about 2 mm. wide toward the base, somewhat ciliate on the lower 
margins of the leaves but rarely wit h coarser cilia; involu ae hemispheric, the pia liacies e- 12, eats: wih of the 
usually about 5 mm. long, Bie: ly carinate in age, the midvein fale nent nbd half or more t 
phyllary; receptacle as i ote r two related taxa; achenes long, n aly tank ar, apacaily truncate (som 
times rounded in Shiphore is glabrous or minutely strigulose with whitish hairs? pappous-paleae when present 
2-5, opaque, whitish (somewhat brownish in older herbarium spec ss about the length vl bos corollas, typically 
a small ovate-lanceolate eale attenuate into a long slender awn Bee slopes and plain on County, Ore a. 
south through the Sacramento and San Joaquin ts and 5 "foat ills to Ren erat Caiiforni ia and northern 
Lower California and eaitwardt through the aa s to central Arizona. Type locality: California. Collected by 
Douglas, presumably near pied 7 Goldfie 
Very abundant and m widespread ate “the other members of the B. omplex. Variable but 
characterized princip pally by nth more or less den rad strigose pubescence, the ie an gore “head and the well- 
defined pappus-scales tebmaanted by attenuate aw The pappus-paleae vary cqosiderebiy in different areas 
For a discussion of this variation see H. M. Hall (Univ. Calif, Pub. Bot. “3: 170-172. 1907). 
4. Baeria leptalea (A. Gray) A. Gray. Salinas Valley Baeria. Fig. 5351. 
pact tests talea A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 6: 546. 1865. 
talea A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Amer. 12: 325. 1884. 
Tote slender, erect annual 7-15 cm. high, mostly simple-stemmed, glabrous ed pate Cai 
pubescent on pedunc d Jil, ‘Leaves 3-10 mm. ong, entire, filiform or nearly so; 
involucres campanulate to nearly turbinate; phyllaries 4-6, rathe broadly oblong, nag mm long. 
thin, ciiia an y pg rous, ob saeliiane 7 - e base; rays 
ul scurely e; rays 3-4 mm. 
oe ae notched at the apex; lobes of the disk-corollas narro angular ; anther-append- 
s 0.5 mm. or more long, filiform or et so; receptacle ss we eg spar than the phyllaries ; 
5348. Baeria macrantha 
