306 COMPOSITAE 
83. TOWNSENDIA Hook. FI. Bor. Amer. 2: 16. pl. 119. 1834. 
Depressed or low, many-stemmed herbs, sometimes scapose, usually cinereous-strigose, 
resembling Aster. Leaves alternate, the basal usually crowded, linear to spatulate, entire. 
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tinged, subscarious margin. Receptacle flat, broad, naked. Ray- numerous, pistil- 
late, with elliptic to linear-elliptic, 3-toothed rays; disk-corollas with aout tube ve — 
dric throat, 5-toothed. Achenes obovate or ag (those of the rays sometimes trigonous), 
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triangular-ovate, acutish, LS emeely ppendages, much shorter than the stigmatic area. 
ned in honor of David Townsend of Phila delphia, sudecte of William Darlington. ] 
us of 21 species, one confined to eae and the-others all of the western United States and Canada, 
two a A tt entering pe Type species, Aster ? exscapus Richards. 
Pappus = mature achenes persistent; plants not with long, loose, woolly-villous hair 
Plant subscapose 0 r acaulescent, the heads pedunc — or sessile in the tufted baiod leaves. 
Pisitie aries linear to narrowly lanceolate, 5-7-seriate. 2. T. leptot 
Periltors ends lanceolate to neuke or elliptic (more narrowly lanceolate in T. scapigera), 2— porn 
Rare am blue to white; achenes often glabrous; alpine plants, Wallowa iene ig Oregon. 
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T. montana. 
Rays pink or lavender; achenes pubescent; plants mostly of pinyon-juniper forest, eastern Californi 
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Plants with erect or suberect, leafy pein Sui heads terminating the branches. 
Phyllaries acuminate, mostly 5-se 3. T. parryi. 
Phyllaries acute, m i 3-4- aut 4. T. florifer. 
pp f£ mat ‘h decid ; plants with long, loose, woolly-villous hairs. 6. T. condensata. 
1. Townsendia montana M. = = Mountain Townsendia. Fig. 5516. 
Tomnnenden resected M. pa Jones, Zoe 4: 262. 
Piper, Bull. 7 ae 27: 34, 1900. 
Townsendia dejerta A. Nele Bot. Gaz. 267. 
npn awe Tae perennial wit ith a taproot and branched often partly ret sod gaa boars 
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oe toa 6 high (rarely sessile), cinereous-pubescent with appressed o cacing 
hairs. Leaves 1-2.8 cm. long (including petiole), 2-6 mm. wide, spatulate, Founded. cy ae ute or 
apiculate, thick, rales r sparsely is on to nearly or quite glabrous on one or both sides ; pret 
igh, wi iate, graduate, thes phyllaries pint. obtuse or the 
sometimes scat, ciliate and Gee enter substrigos ose, the margins purplish; bea fleas 
shan 13-18, the ra s 5-7 mm. lon ng, blue = white; ray-achenes Pants 4 fl, long, from nearly 
glabrous to rather parse ely pilose with forked or glochidiate hairs, the pappus-awns a mm. 
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a: dis sk-achene s antl or quite glabrous except for a few hairs at base, their pappus 5 mm. 
ong, equa 
oc’ y or gravelly places, Canadian and Transition Zones; subalpine ridges of the Wallowa Mountains, Ore- 
gon, and Idaho east to southwestern Montana: reasira Wopette and south to Utah. Type locality: Alta, Utah, 
above oe Flagstaff mine, altitude about 2,900 meters. May—Jul 
. —* — (A. Gray) ee Common Townsendia. Fig. 5517. 
cea var. leptotes A. Gray, Proc. Amer. . 16: 85. 1880. 
oe poe Gackeok Naubiotinta 4: 69. ang ‘ lepotes). 
_ Rosulate-pulvinate perennial with a taproot and usually much- gece ges subterranean caudex, 
with feapile Gr r pedunculate heads, the scapes to about 3 cm. high. Leaves up to 6 cm. long includ- 
ing the petiole and to 3. 51 ‘i _ wide, bore to oblanceolate or spatulate e, gas involute, glabrous 
to densely strigose ; inye e 5-15 cm. high, 8-23 cm e, 4-7-seriate, the de as lanceolate 
to linear, mostly acu rg nbs or lightly evel the s« sc a ious mar gin — apie about 
1 , the rays Bide mm. ong, whitish, pink, .o achenes about 4 mm. or more aise 
ong, 0 
late, t ray te disk similar, more or less ene "with forked hairs, the seonnts exceeding the 
corolias. 
nd crests, Boreal Zone; in the Pacific States in the is teen Mountains of Mono County, 
ore a ogg yoy ya western SF stg to Taha south to , pores cn New Mexico and central Nevada. Type 
locality: Middle Park, Grand County, Colorado. June—Aug 
3. Townsendia parryi D. C. Eaton. Parry’s Townsendia. Fig. 5518. 
i Lapicwmiocoae parryi D. C. Eaton in Parry, Amer, Nat. 8: 212. 1874. 
Bi r short-lived perennial ; stems simple, 1 t y, 2-20 cm. high, stout, rather sparsely 
leafy, pee nai esated mec suba pressed to loosely ascend ng hairs sally simple a nd 1-headed. 
— Loree tufted, spatulate or oblanceolate, 1-6 cm. lon si inc | uding pe ict Sr wide, acute 
e, narrowed into ine ae tioles, glabrous hae, ose Feciere saree similar ; 
ome 1-1.4 cm. high, up to 4 cm. wide, abo tate graduate, the tinue anee-ublon ong 
