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achenes black, about 3 mm. long, narrowly obovoid and compressed, the flattened sorters ridged, 
yin or with some appressed hairs, epappose or with vestigial pappus-palea 
Grassy flats and rolling hills, Lower Sonoran Zone, ieee Tulare County and Kern ecto California. 
Type aig | Ai Dies Tulare County. March-April. 
3. Pseudobahia heermannii (Durand) ne Foothill Pseudobahia. Fig. 5382. 
Monolopia heermannii Durand, Journ. Acad. Phila. IT. 3: 1855. 
Monolopia bahiaefolia var. she hia . Gray, go een = . 383. 1876. 
Eriophyllum heermannii Greene, Fl. Fran. 445. 
Pseudobahia heermanniit Rydb. N. Amer. FI. apes a 1915. 
Loosely grayish-floccose annuals m. high, branching at and above the base, the ste 
slender, usually reddish and becoming glabrate or Naeuee so. Leaves 1-3 cm. long, pinnately lobed 
with linear divisions 0.5-1.5 mm. wide, narrowed below into a flattened petiole about one-third 
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of the branches, the peduncles 2-5 cm. long, often curved at maturity; invol 
broader se long, the tomentum persisting ; phyllaries 8 or more, ovate-acute, herbaceous above, 
usually f about one-half their length, the lower part becoming cartilaginous in age an 
usually developing callous processes siege the aes Bee Ss about > a oblong, usually ob- 
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s long as the divided portion, the internodes shorter than the leaves; heads solitary on the ends 
ucres 5-6 mm. h 
scurely toothe apex, mm ; disk-flow ut achenes narrowly 
obov aid: black, more or les appre see hairy, renee pacer te aie but reed on the flattened 
saviiees epappose or with ryeatigiat pappus-paleae. 
On open wooded slopes, Upper Sonoran Zone; slopes of the Sierra Nevada, California, from Butte County 
to Kern County; also occurring rarely in the Santa Lucia Mountains, Monterey County. Type Incality; “Cala- 
veras. ™ Collected by Heermann. Aberrant forms occur in the gocthera part of the range. March—-May 
5380. Pseudobahia bahiaefolia 
378. Eri inglei 
5378. Eriophyllum pringlei sennren eae 
5379. Eriophyllum mohavense 
