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Pappus-paleae all alike and of equal length or pap lacking. 
eads re -flowered with never less than 9 or 10; rays present (except in E. pringle 
eceptacle baby or less dome-shaped or conical; peduncles at least 1 cm. long ‘asad shorter in 
ee vallacei), generally yer much longer. 
Rays scarcely exceeding the disk; plants of the higher Sierra Nevada. 
6. E. nubigenum. 
Rays —— oe _ ee — of desert ranges, and desert slopes of the Sierra Ne- 
and t hap 
ae opens branched, rae or several from the base; pappus-paleae, when present, hya- 
lin ee ee 
Stems staid from the base but little branched; pappus-paleae, when present, o 
10:2, wonilec? 
ReckoMirle ae or nearly so; heads in leafy clusters sessile or the peduncles usually ane more than 
ng. 
oc fl Hee multicaule. 
Ray-flowers ssi = E. pringlei. 
Heads few-flowered with never more than 4; rays absent. . E. mohavense. 
1. Eriophyllum lanatum Robes Forbes. Common Woolly-sunflower or 
sce Fig. 5367. 
Actinella lanata Pursh, Fl. Amer. Sept. 560 
Eriophyllum gas eae Doug]. ex Lindl. Bet er Pa he 1167. 1828. 
Eriophyllum lan Forbes, Hort. Wobur 
Bahia liacanhera DC. Prod. 5: 2 
Loosely tomentose perennial, erect or decumbent from a ares base, the dans stems (1)2-6 
dm. high, the tomentum tending to be de ep in age. Leav 2-6 cm. long, p nently white- 
woolly bel labrate or glabrous above, variable in size at outline, the oe sp pas or 
te nat 
corymbose on ped s 
cm. long; involucre hemispheric, 8-10 mm. high, 10-12 mm. broad; phyllaries ge loosely 
fidcsese: or glabr bi fire to pate lanceolate, strongly tag distinct to oe base but with 
overlapping mar y:flowers 8-12, yellow Dis iB . long; disk-flow S34 mm. sed 
with a qinmalie any pi : shee enes buy aioe sbioaaeh in outline, narrowe as ard th 
angled, glabrous, the pappus- “paleae 4-10, denatly obtuse and erose, sometimes Bier taaccolate 
aie alee. not exceeding 2 m = NORE 
In thickets and open dry places, Transition ommon west of the Cascade Mountains from British Co- 
lumbia to southern Oregon a adjacent Del Réce Ca ie my California, and on the groans saa in ~ seatoome 
of the Columbia River in southeastern hae egg iB and northeastern Oregon eastward to western Mont. Type 
locality: banks of the Ki eaekie® as —Jul 
a 8 NE Se lanatum var. s hilicaotoes (DC.) Jepson, Man. FI. Pl. Calif. gs bio (Bahia ie aga 
DC: Prod; a : boric wits aren ar’ Pittonia 3: 1S5.01897 3 2 mag fy tomo * . Mid. 
Calif. 524. 5 01; £. 9 Elmer, Bot. Gaz ; E. cusickit Eastw. ex Sera e 93. 
1915, as a synonym; ss ‘achilaxesdes var. By ie ~ Howell, Leaflets West. Bot. 3: 126. 194) Stems 
ve A Pp mes 
r ¢ ong; 
hig ys 6-9 mm. long lacking in var. pet lia: achenes short, 2.5-3 mm. lone, ‘cuneate-oblong, hispidulous 
or vislobronset pappus present. vay pt in Oregon from Eid and Harney Counties to rahi tc alifornia and 
nee tie more commonly in the Calif rnia Coast reap as far south as the Santa Cruz Mountains, and in east- 
BS SD: though occurring fhe? commonly m M 
nis 
5366 
5367. Eriophyllum lanatum 
5366. Monolopia major 
