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1. Monoptilon bellidiforme Torr. & Gray. Desert Star. Fig. 5514. 
Monoptilon bellidiforme Torr. & Gray ex. A. Gray, Bost. Journ, Nat. Hist. 5: 106. pl. 13, figs. 1-6. 1845. 
Slender branching annual, spreading-hirsute with white hairs throughout, ip cm. high, the 
branches Seraie ascending. Leaves spatulate to linear-oblanceolate, 4-10 m long, .5-2.5 
wi btuse to acute, narrowed into a petioliform base, entire; heads shout 3 1 cm. wide, soli- 
ary at tips of branches and brat Se involucre about 3.5 mm. high, leafy-bracted at base, the 
proper phyllaries about 18, nearly 1-seriate, narrowly linear, acuminate, herbaceous, with 1 strong 
whitish rib toward base; haytio vers about 18, the rays white, rosy-tinged, or purple, oval or 
obovate, about 5 mm. long, the tube densely pilose; tube ws joe es Pies of erweh so rather 
den sely_ pilose; achenes obovate, hispidulous, about 2 lor pus a short, few-toothed 
cup, split on one side, and a single on hy sal rarely 2) srt Nn spew pe pHa plumose 
auaee tip, or the brist ie si Ae We 
Sandy or stony desert places, less common a the following species, Lower Sonoran Zone; Mojave Desert 
and Hy pin border of gap iat Desert, California, east to northwestern Arizona, Neveds: pall soothers Utah. 
Type locality: unknown. rch—May 
2. Monoptilon bellioides (A. Gray) Hall. Mohave Desert Star. Fig. 5515. 
Eremiastr um bellioides A. Gray, Mem. Amer. Acad. IT. 5: rau ed 
Eremiastrum orcuttit S. Wats. Proc. Amer. Acad. 25: 132. 
Hranaaiiies bellioides orentti Coville, Contr. U.S. Nat “Herb. vs Pot 1893, 
Monoptilon bellioides H. M. Hall, Univ. Calif. Pub. Bot. 3: 
Very similar to M. plore but often dese ‘ez benches up to 15 cm. long. Leaves u 
to 2 cm. long; heads 1.3-1 . wide ; involucre 4-6 mm. high; ray-flow yhite or apparently 
r oO ng ah € ; i 
to sparsely long-pilose ; sr oeotgs somewhat eon buniee obovoid, hispidulous ; pappus of I-1 j 
oe bristles and about as many lacerate to setose-disse as d ae mellae about og as long. 
ra Jn ay Pid sont peer: places, Lower Siisheda Zone; Inyo y to Imperial Cou California, 
Utah, and northwestern Mexico. Type Feit db "On the Califcetidans bk not far 
oes e ary ccm ne crete cm 
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5512. Bellis pe: 5514, Monoptilon bellidiforme 
5513. Boltonia ettiectites 5515. Monoptilon bellioides 
