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or the enehi ts lanceolate, long-acuminate, lacerate- oe and along center substrigose; ra 
about : e, blue to violet, 12-25 mm. long ; ray-achenes about 4 m ae densely hispidulous 
with entire or ‘tide ntate hairs, their pappus of ba Thetiate sai about ns in . long; disk-achen 
dies. their pappus about 5 mm. long, about equaling the co rolla. 
Subalpine siaeae: Canadian Zone; Wallowa Mountains, Oregon se Pacific States; British ee 
Alberta south to Idaho and Wyoming. Type locality: Wind River Citen: inci, altitude 2,745 mete Sc 
4. Townsendia florifer ee) A. Gray. Showy Townsendia. Fig. 5519. 
Erigeron ? florifer Hook. Fi. Bor. Amer. 2: 
Townsendia florifer A, Gray, Proc. Amer. Hees - 84, 1880. 
abhi Acapigera var. mnpsacege th Gray, loc. cit 
| A. Gray, loc. c 
Many-stemmed biennial or winter gies 5-20 cm. high, with spreading or ascending s 
cinereous throughout with appressed to loosely ae gre stems leafy, u sors branching 
Basal leaves tufted, spatulate or rar a peel 1.5-4 cm. lon ng including PS iole, 2-7 m 
wide, rounded to acute, narrowed into the long son e; stem- 5 similar ag 2 ee 
heads pedunculate ; haga 7-10 mm. high, 15-35 mm. wide, about 3-seriate, abi eteeg: easel 
laries lanceolate or the outermost linear-lanceolate, acute, the margins often purplish- bec ray- 
owers about 18.30, white or pink, the rays 6-12 mm. long; ray-achenes 4 mm. long, dense ely hir- 
sute-pilose with bidentate hairs, their pappus of barbellate awns about 3-6 mm. long; disk-achenes 
similar, their pappus about 6 mm. long, exceeding the corolla. 
sag or sandy hillsides and Neacela, nin ate i east of the Cascade Mountains in Washington 
and Ore and fro ans ho south to Nevada and Utah. Type locality: ‘‘near Priest’s Rapids of the Columbia,’’ 
Washington, May Sut 
5516. Townsendia montana §518. Townsendia parryi 
5517. Townsendia leptotes 5519. Townsendia florifer 
