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achenes 2 mm. long, brown, glabrous or with minute hairs toward the apex; pappus of 1-4 pale 
or brownish bristles tapering from a somewhat broadened base, the bristles about equaling ee 
disk-corollas 
Fields Siidk slopes, Upper Sonoran Zone; of rather rare occurrence in interior Monterey ood pe suis chispo 
oo. Californ nia (Brewer, Brasseces. Alone. Ornduff). Type locality: Nacimiento River, Mon y Coun 
April. 
Und - adverse growing conditions depauperate specimens of B. chrysostoma subsp. gracilis have al Rowers 
heads and nearly subulate receptacles. The plants are strigose and have phyllaries that as strongly c ate and 
lack the suilitl Sees anther appendages of B, leptalea. More difficult to separate from B. leptalea are "aberrant, 
dwarfed, Branly, Ooi gees mens from the Inner ‘North Coast Ranges of the awned forms or. 8. sostoma 
subsp. chryso thope examined, however, has the diagnostic characters of subulate ese foe and 
subfiliform ae ta aubeadases: 
5. Baeria microgléssa (DC.) Greene. Small-rayed Baeria. Fig. 5352. 
Burrjeee mecrourates DC. Prod. 5: 664. 1836. 
Greene, Man. Bay Reg. 205. 1894, 
1897. 
a Gre 
Pentachaeta less Elmer, Bot. Gas: 41: 318. 1906. 
ak, slender-stemmed, erect or reclining annuals 5-20 cm. hi gh, the stems arising singly 
or several from the base, rndtty branched above, said Pa pubescent throughout with ascending 
i y about 2 m i 
hairs. Leaves thin, linear, entire, 1.5-4 cm. lon , usuall wide; peduncles 1-3 cm. 
long; involucres cylindric, the phyllaries 3 or 4, ahier ng or narrowly o vate and acute at apex, 
6.5-8 mm. long, ciliate- margined, thin and lea fy, cot carinate in age; r ecestaalé subulate; ray- 
OW 3 ys mi r wanting; disk-flowe sually less than 10, u m. long, 
the throat broadly funnelform; achenes black, nearly 1 r; long, minutely and 
sparsely hispidulous; es aleae 2-4, surpassing the disk-flowers, narrowly lanceolate and 
attenuate into an awn, or pappus- a lacking in some flowers of the he ads. 
Grassy shaded uieek: or_ among rocks oulders, Sonoran Zones; Tehama ey: California, southward 
in the Paces Ranges to San Diego County; cae in the Death yale ah Soe in Inyo County and the western edges 
ye deserts from Kern County to Riverside County. Type loca : California. tad by Douglas. March- 
6. Baeria débilis Greene ex A. Gray. Greene’s Baeria. Fig. 5353. 
Baeria debilis Greene ex A. Gray, Syn, Fl. N. Amer. 12: 325, 1884 
Lax-stemmed annual, erect or Beas ng, 5-30 cm. high, the stems arising singly or several 
from the base, simple or with few ascending Fianches aarets soft-villous with microscopically 
septate ascending hairs, more Scale so below the heads. Leaves flaccid, linear, 1-6(8) cm. long, 
1-5 mm. wide, entire, more rarely with 1-3 lobes; peduncles 2 ; involucre campanulate 
to broadly turbinate, the phyllaries 5, about 5 m ong, broadly elliptic to narrowly ovate, thin, 
veins not prominent in age, keeled at the extreme base; receptacle subulate, 1g 
about 1 mm. wid base; ri wers yellow or white, the long, narrowly 
pat and usually toothed; Bie Bower 15 a u ng, tube slender, throat cam- 
panulate; achenes narrow, mm. long, hispidulous ; pappus-paleae 2-4, white, ovate-lanceo- 
late and tapering to a slender awn, a little meee than the disk- Aowers: or pappus- -paleae lacking. 
Grassy woodlands or among boulders, Upper Sonoran Zone; lower foothills of = Sierra Behe lr and adjacent 
eee Mariposa County, Californias sot to Kern County. Ty ype locality: plains of Fresno County. March— 
7. Baeria minor vee ) Ferris. Woolly Baeria or Goldfields. Fig. 5354. 
Monolopia minor DC. Prod. 6: 
Dichaeta tenella Nutt. Trans, ‘Amer. 8 Soc. 0), 7: 383: 1841. 
+ 2 " 
ae u 
Baeria uliginosa A. Gray, Sin Mek — 9: 197. 1874. 
Baeria uliginosa var. icuciha: A. Gray, loc. ¢ 
Be aeria wht iginosa var. tenera A. Gray, op. fy 19: 22. 1883. 
een : F, 18 = 
ey 
Berindka li. he Ryd r. Fl. 34 1915. 
Baeria minor Ferris, ets ome Herb. ‘ eek 1955. 
Annuals 1-3 dm. high, erect and simple-stemmed below or diffusely branched from the base 
or even prostrate; stems weak and somewhat poorer ds: or firm and strictly erect in drier situa- 
tions; herbage very sparsely villous to dense y_lanate- villous with long, septate, often twisted 
hai y or narrowly li undivided portion of the 
mes 
te when mature, the papillae ring the achenes scarcely fused toward the ee “ the 
reac and appearing as distinct pedicels ; ligules of ray-flowers usually oblong and emarginate 
or toothed at the apex, mm. long; isk-flowers many, tu As ndular, throat catiinarGEahe 
oS spiel pie about 425 mm. long, gay eae smoot th; pappus completely 
lackin, y- and disk-achenes or of 2-4 awns nearly as lon ng as 'the corolla and (2)4-6 tru — 
feeb ee these. rorane and ges completely cleft, particularly on the ray-achenes wher 
y be vestigial and awns only p: 
In damp soil near ap ctaly Paso € areas, or is ene in fields and by roadsides, Sonoran and Transi 
Zones; common along the coast erage areas County to Santa Barbara County, California, and eastward a 
