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rrowed to a petiolar base, -. upper tending to be sessile, oblanceolate to linear-oblanceolate, more 
op ‘tess toothed toward the a and sometimes entire, the u upper progressively smaller, all thinly 
white-tomentose ; fo nics aig openly branched, the heads few sever, arly naked 
paniculate branches ; involucre 5.1-7 mm. high, broadly turbinate or turbina e-campanulate ; phyl- 
laries 3-4(5)-s , , erect or spreading, not re arrose, weakly cartila- 
ti 
glandless or granular erases Th gies in inland forms); rays 5-8 mm. long, lavender or 
reddish. 
Pine e woo rae or on open pence Upper Sonoran and Transition Zones; Hamilton Range, Santa 
Clara Ca Paliloraie, mb nie a through the ae: ge “* Ranges to Santa Bar bara County and alon the 
coast from Santa Cruz Cou nty through Monterey County. Type Se ality: California Collected on Beechey’s 
voyage. June—Sept, Cadwes Aster 
Inte ratading freely with nee taxa of this group at points of contact. The type of the form described as 
Aster ? tomentellus is an jasper ter specimen } owned Mn ay Bt to the few small pall and having leg Me linear- 
oblong, v4 ‘fom », White-t pa leaves. Among diverse forms of Corethrogyne erowin ng in sae 
Monterey Bay regi -, specimens are Naf rena collected that ‘tte slender to the type of tomentelius but the 
intfoli 
Key to Principal Varieties 
Involucres and inflorescence scarcely or not at all glandular, often somewhat cose. 
Stems slender; phyllaries loosely imbricate; 3—4-seriate; coast and Inner and Outer Coast Ranges of central 
California C; singe ete! filaginifolia, 
Stems baa iciow: phyllaries closely imbricate, 5-seriate; southern California Pag ad entura County north- 
C. filaginifolia latifolia 
Involucres, > abet and sometimes the upper stem jeneely | glandular, - not or scarcely floccose tinesiuers and 
peduncle just below the head glandular only in C. fil 
poo turbinate (broadly so in C. filaginifolia bevnevdina): phyllaries squarr 
y the involucre and upper peduncle glandular; plants of San harcardina Valley. eres 
C. filaginifolia bernardina. 
inflorescence sisndalar; plants not a restricted. 
A ut 
1] A + 
Stem slender; i hern seacoast 
aginifolia virg 
Stem 7 inflorescence glomerate or a short-branched raceme or paviles os 9 . inland moun- 
tai C. filaginifolia glomer 
I ity } ne emispheric; phy] i ly or not at all Squarrose. 
Erect plants from a woody root, the infl many-flowered ; rag California coast. 
C. filaginifolia rigida. 
Decumbent suffruticose plants, the inflorescence few-flowered; Channel Islands. 
. filagi inifolia robusta. 
Corethrogyne filaginifolia var. hamiltonensis Keck (Aliso 4: 104. 1958), a Plant hg - habit and inflores- 
cence of C. filaginifolia var. filaginifolia, has involucres obconic, 7.5—11 — igh, iate, the phyllaries 
appressed, damnmetat tomentose at patios and recess if at all glandular. snd on me western side of the 
Mount Hamilton Range in Santa —- and San Benito Counties and poi Logout with the posh ase" exten- 
rowel C, filaginifolia var. filaginifolia, and was described from material collected on Mount Hamilton (Hall 
8 a 
Coreothrogyne fila: prifctie: var. rigida A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Amer, 1°: 170, “ow as to es (?) Corethro- 
ane viscidula Greene, Fl. Fran. 378. a ?C. viscidula var. greenet Jens, 3) C Ries ape oy Sal 
rigt 6. 
eaberain | ; C. filag ir. UES 
2.5-5 dm. high with stems stouter than C -  laginifolie var. filaginifolia, peal or decuml nt = te pais oe ss 
udin * 
narrowly or broadly. pblaieeaiaie. acu and usually toothed on the upper third; heads abe! saa several; 
pesdetaied 5-6(7) mm. high, hemispheric = passer turbinate, densely glandular (except in intermediate forms) 
and often snitele gtananlec the phyllaries — a, 3-4(5)- perieta: not squarrose. Sand “hills and bluffs 
g the n and open hill Pant spre 30 to asi “Alam a County south to Monterey County, California. 
below and Cawiaie ae ove, with an et , many-flowered kere: scence. Corethrogyne ‘laine var. rigida 
differs from C. filaginifolia var. glom with hick ‘t som ae Hosa been identified, co hone eres a 
panulate to hemispheric involucres, Ce ohcics which are eddies 4 S cme ~ : ore ope inflorescence 
with lon pig x Petite ulate branches. Corethrogyne riscidula var. erocuri Jepson an Specimens ann aided by 
Geckae s C. viscidula differ considera abi from C. filagin rpbdiet var. rigida, Further investigation may prove that 
these plants ge have large ean with distin nctly ie ric involucres and rather broad Pade represent 
. pop taxon. The large heads and the habitat in which they gr “os suggest ata epic with the rarely collected 
. califor aa 
Co orethrogyne filaginifolia var. robista Greene, gy 1: 89. 1887. she stout, ascending, densely 
c 
s s co 8 upper zi 2 
of the same shape; inflorescence loosely aniculate or corymbiform; heads rather few, about as broad as high in 
pressed specimens; phiyllaries ‘glandular with a broad green tip. tf sector San — Santa Rosa, and oe 
Cruz I = a anta Barbara = y, and apparently. banat t Be al, oe not in the typical form, along the coast 
of Sa sob ispo sad: Santa Bar oot mage es ene A Sun iguel Island. 
Ha Fein some characteristics in common C. filaginifolia var. rigida but differing from that taxon in 
rowth form. 
: Corethrogyne Soccoss Greene (Leaflets Bot. Obs. 2: 25. 10), described from material collected by Alice 
Eastwood in September at Elwood near — Ph reg is aa in “habit, oh slender stems and filiform, 
glandular, pedunculiform aeonetee. The hs oH es are — —— or oblong and somewhat toothed. It is possibly 
a hybrid between the above and laginifolia var. virgata. 
ak hro. ae Mineiier ris kor Hod cit. 26);  aeacribed from materia d by Braunton in ay 
Redondo, Los Angeles County, and also collected by Abrams and Braunton “g Daye t del Rey, has white-tom 
linear a ee yf Sasi the habit of C: * fleginifolia var synnogy i.e aed in older pl ants, and gine ei 
large hemispheric nvolucre s which resemble those filag nifolic var. 
Cirniladaa ‘fila aginifolia var. latifélia H. M. ties Unie. Cal Pub. eer 3: 70. aig — woody stems, 
the leaves and stems and sk wali tomentose ep not at all sep ‘leaves 1-4 cm wide, sessile, 
mostly oblong, sometimes narrowed at t e. somewhat toothed toured the r ot apex: heads mener See, few, 
ad . 
at the tips and not glandular. Occa cat along the coast of Santa gy ee ar an entura Coumates, Californ 
and apparently ered freely nn the Caan forms in he same area. Type locality: Oxnard, polar 
Coun 
h fil ifoli virgata (Benth.) A. Gray. Bot. Calif. 1: 321. 1876. (Corethrogyne virgata 
ne rethrogyne rary eg Crane nica q virgata Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 1: 330. 1891; C. lavandulacea 
