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3. Chrysopsis bréweri A. Gray. Brewer’s Golden-aster. Fig. 5437. 
Chrysopsis brewerit A. Gray, Proc. gre Acad. 6: 542. 1865. 
Chrysopsis wrightiit A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Amer. 12: 445. 1884. 
Heterotheca breweri Shidneda. aor. & Lab. 19: 71. 1951. 
t stems from a woody caudex, 2-8 dm. high, simple or more commonl 
ate 
3-nerved from base; heads solitary at the ends of the slender le afy br anches, broadly campanulate, 
is 1 mm. hi 
iscoid ; involucre 7-1 igh, 2—3-seriate ; phyvere s lance-linear he lance- oblong, acuminate ; 
corollas slender-funnelform; outer pappus of short rit bri stles or no 
Open rocky slopes and coniferous forests, Canadian and Hudsonian ear Sierra Nevada from ae 
Cicaky to ulate Caaas and on San Gorgonio Peak, eet adjacent Nevada. Type locality: ‘‘Nea 
Sonora Pass and same 8 Pass, in the Sierra Nevada.” July-S 
Chr sis ver var. multibracteata Jepson, nies re Pi; ’ Calif. (3037. 1925. ee, “er ba 
Eastw. Bot’ Gaz [: 291. 1906.) Herbage sparingly arachnoid-villous; phyllaries somewhat thic owly 
— to eebeclaity 4 acute or acuminate, sometimes purple-margined, 4- 5 -seriate. Dry rocky irl Canedinn 
ne; ware aay a bg inity, and Tehama Counties, California. Type locality: Sisson (Mt. Shasta City), Siskiyou 
5436. Chrysopsi 5437. Chrysopsis breweri 
73. HETEROTHECA* Cass. Bull. Soc. Philom. 137. 1817. 
Coarse erect herbs with yellow-flowered heads disposed i in terminal corymbose panicles. 
Leaves alternate. Involucre hemispheric; phyllaries narrow, closely imbricate in bt eral 
series, appressed. Ray-florets 1-seriate, fertile; disk-fl many, ferti i ene 
triangular-compressed ; pappus none or caducous. Disk-achenes cuneiform ; pa ouble, 
the copious inner bristles Selig long, the outer setose, short. ame Grek: meaning 
es mn ig: (or ovary), from the unlike achenes of ray and disk 
ore species in the esis United States and Mexico. Type species, Heterotheca lamarckit 
dea” = "H. pa ep (Lam.) Britt. & Rusby). 
Upper leaves narrowed to a sessile base; heads relatively large; involucre 7-10 mm. high, gy pede ree 
hes? + } + 
aan : : lu 6-8 mm. high, glandular- Lg ae and also 
a aoe sis ee. ep Seana tmeraetimanrny A. subaxillaris. 
1. Heterotheca grandifléra Nutt. Telegraph Weed. Fig. 5438. 
Nutt. Trans. Amer. Phil. te II. 7: 315. 1840. 
Heterotheca forbade ise Bot. Sulph. 24. 184 
Annual or biennial, the stout stem simple below, 5-20 dm. high, hirsute, the ample inflorescence 
peo is Set nt and heavy-scented. Leaves thickish, villous, ovate to pues lobes at bas te, 
—6 cm. long, evo, serrate, the lower eats, commonly with a cag of stipule- sn . = at base; 
heads medium large; involucre 7-9 mm. high; ray-florets 25-3 35, the corolla é. meh 
wide, revolute from the tip, the tube hairy; disk-florets 50-65, very sender, the iubbe sper ranches 
scarcely exserted; pappus brick-red, the outer series goo : ee ee 
southern aliro’ ia n ] 
San 5 oe re A Lag ying sn ir este labs s; also southern  heiaanes Type locality: Santa 
Barbara. March—Jan 
* Text contributed by David Daniels Keck. 
