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2. Monolopia stricta Crum. Crum’s Monolopia. Fig. 5364. 
Monolopia stricta Crum, Madrojio 5: 258. 1940. 
Stems 1-6 dm. high, simple or much branched from the base and above, all the branches 
strictly ascending, white-lanate to floccose and becoming glabrate. Basal and lower — 
oblanceolate, entire, 3.5-8 cm. long and soon withering, upper stem-leaves atone eh to oblon 
lanceolate, apex obtuse or acutish, 3.5-6 cm. long, usually entire, equaling or shorter than a 
internodes ; heads on the lower as well as upper branches, the peduncles about 3-5 cm. long; phyl- 
laries about 8, free, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, usually cg pi at the apex, mm. long; 
ray-flowers about t 8 8-10-nerved, oblong, rounded at apex and entire or minutely oy aging 
4-15 mm. long;. disk-flowers yellow; ee Hai densely grayish- Seas , 2.5 to nearly 3 m 
long, the ray- -achenes obcompressed, the disk-achenes not obcompre essed. 
lains or open slopes in the foothills, Lower Sor n Zone; Inner Coast Ran San Benito County, Cali- 
pes, to on * Ane. and eastward in the San g Pons Vales ps Talate Coane, x, amt ie in Lost Hills, Kern 
ounty. [e 
x 5 page as Sper Nutt. Common Monolopia. Fig. 5365. 
ohamestd te lanceolata Nutt. Proc. Acad. Phi 848. 
‘tiie Gray, We nthe: ve 384. 1876. 
Ste a we high, simple or branched from the base and above, the branches diffusely 
edeadtug. densely wipes fauatn and becoming somewhat glabrate. Basal and lower cauline leaves 
5362, Bahia neomexicana 5364. Monolopia stricta 
5363. Monolopia gracilens 5365. Monolopia lanceolata 
