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oast Ranges and Sacramento—San Joaquin Valley to the lower Sierra foothills, where it occurs from Amador 
fe Soe south to peed County. Type locality: California. Collected by Douglas. March—June. 
aeria minor subsp. maritima (A. Gray) Ferris, Contr. eed Herb. 4: 334. 1955. (Burri ielia maritima 
bi Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 7: 358. 1868; Baeria maritima A. Gray, op. cit. 9: 196. 1874.) Diffuse succulent 
nuals,” sparsely soft-villous as in the preceding taxon to aulatale. oa re except for the inflorescence; leaves 
Srcedia linear, te to sie ge i and laciniately lobed, the rachis Mi to 11 mm. wide; peduncles egg short; 
— ig and r rate ai in the preceding; ray -flowers few, 3-8, the ligule minute, heat t 2 mm. long, oval 
long, often eka apex; achenes pate and epappose, or ppd nea and bearin 3S ‘awns alter- 
sating mith the Pare eds. se 8 paleae. Occasional week the coast in seepage areas, from aries Columbia 
to Monterey Count Californ pe lo cality : Farallone Islands, Sea Prateoae Conaky Californi 
This taxon differs from B. eat mi eae minor in the few and minute rays and the tendency to a very short 
peduncles on the spring plants 
8. Baeria platycarpha (A. Gray) A. Gray. Alkali Goldfields. Fig. 5355. 
pgs 3 aapeieagy: ei Gray in Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 97. 1859 
Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 9: 196 
Resins carnosa he e, Bull. Torrey Club 10: 86. 1883. 
Lasthenia platyc wa Greene <P Bay Reg. 205. 1894. 
Lasthenia carnosa Gre 
Erect annuals ey cm. ‘high with rather wiry, often reddish stems branching from the base 
faingle: pb sini g in small plants), alee somewhat branched above with asc eoding branches, glabrous 
plain sparse 5 20H short-villous pubescence belie the he ads. Leaves 1. cm long about 
1 Sn wide, what su alent. ar. ceney. with 2(3) short eee “ted. or entire, A ehicar 
poarch village about the leaf-bas peduncles 2- . long; involucres broa y tur- 
inate the Viglies ries 8-9, about 7 mm. Footy ‘elliste to ovate, rather firm in texture and somewhat 
nerved, the midv i 
stro’ 
the hypeeae rays 7-8 mm. long, pie disk-flowers 3 mm. or more long; spt: nes 3- 32 
lon what angular, i cidulobe: pappus-paleae 4-7, when ceca as long as or longer than 
ae “corolla-tube, rather firm, ovate, abruptly tapering to an awn, the margin ictomonially 
or saline soil, Sonoran Zones; Sacramento Valley, California, from Tehama County to the lower 
San fonts Valley i in Merced and fp eng Counties. Type locality: valley of upper Sacramento. oat May. 
lants from Tehama County differ in having longer pappus-paleae and more abundant pubescence 
9. Baeria fremontii (Torr. ex A. Gray) A. Gray. Fremont’s Baeria. Fig. 5356. 
Dichaeta fremontit Torr. ex A. Gray, Mem. Amer. Acad. II. 4: 102. 1849. 
Burrielia fremontii ane se oe 317. 1849, 
Baeria fremontii A. Gra oc. Amer. Ac af a 196. 1874. 
Baeria burkei Greene, she Calif, eae de 886. 
Somewhat succulent ee 10- ae . high, stems arising singly or several from the base. 
scaly | branching ba low the middle with erect branches, herbage pubescent (often sparsely so) 
with fine, soft, a ahs or Sc hairs, mostly of equal length, densely so on the upper part 
= the pedunc cles, ‘Leaves 1-3.5(5. sc cm. oy mostly dinear hliforia ow ith 2-4 divergent filiform 
0.5-lc ; heads many- esis , the involucre broadly ielieshene rarely obscurely 
eA me cheer peduncles 5-15 cm long ; phyllaries 4-5 mm. long, thin, spreading in age 
and 1-3 keeled at the base, the margins finely ciliate; receptacle 2 mm. igh, dome- 
oe glabrous or hairy, very finely muriculate to nearly scro obiculate ; rays broadly elliptic, 
emarginate at apex; disk- petit about 2 mm. long te tube conspicu uously glandular, the throat 
broadly funnelform; achenes m. long or slightly longer, angled, uicels compressed, more 
or less finely scabr ido, rarely gla brous ; — of 4 (sometimes 1-3) awns as long as or 
somewhat longer than t rolla-tube, with usually 2 minute, broadly acute, lacerate sonics 
tween the awns, these ae shies Bag in ienaale and sometimes completely divided; pappus varely 
sent. 
ostly pools or ditches, Lower Sonoran Zone; Tehama and Butte ae California, south to 
Kern Cou © Flag eg ey Slerunente-San Joaquin Valley and in adjacent valleys in the Inner Coast Ranges as far 
sputh as th the eastern edge of Santa Barbara County and the Sierra Nevada foothills, Tyre Pascoe Ty California. 
pri 
Baeria burkei Greene is an aberrant form characterized only by the pappus, which consists of 10-12 ver 
minute, acute sth ore a single long slender awn about as long as the disk-corolla. Known oc from the type 
collection from pene ape ocino County, California, and northwest of Windsor, Sonoma County (Jepson 9303). 
Baeri a ar. heterochaéta Hoover, Leaflets West. ma 1: 229. 1936. Like the pr iy ing taxon 
m growth- for agers Ms in the “cg aad conical, glabrous or hairy, m riculate receptacle, achenes to 1.5 mm. or 
more in lemaths. and pappus-scales between the awns much dinnaeted pact “ _ ual a. yi some awn-like. 
hs srowing with B. fremontii va wey Sere and occasional from pactamenty 4 San Counties southward 
‘o Kern County, California. Tyne seeing: Sronitrapee, Kern Cou 
Po . eer achenes and the conical receptacle madera a tes EN to the B. el eae complex of southern 
i 
emontii var. cénju (Greene) Ferris, Contr. Dudley Herb. 5: 100. 1958. (Lasthenia conjugens 
Green ag 1: 221, 1888. less pubescent plant in which the phyllaries are varely he for less than 
half their grace nd the achenes (about 1.5 mm. jones are smooth and w bons ut papp Found only in Solano 
a Con le a Cou unties, California, where it occurs with B. fremontii var. fremontii. ” Type ede Antioch, 
unty. 
10. Baeria calif6rnica (Hook.) Chambers. Glandular or Southern Baeria. 
Fig. 5357 
Hymenorys acs a Hook. Bot. Mag. 67: pl. 3828. 1840, 
Ptilomeris aristata Nutt. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. IT. 7: 382, 1841. 
