360 COMPOSITAE 
31. Erigeron milticeps Greene. Kern River Daisy. Fig. 5612. 
Erigeron esticee Greene, Pittonia 2: 167. 1891. 
Perennial from a stout ps ee short branched caudex ; stems slender, branched, up to 2 dm. 
tall, soe with a sed hairs except under the heads where the hairs are spreading. Leaves 
appressed-hairy, t he “teat Bbianteciste to obovate, up to 4 cm. sot he an shorter than eg 
petiole ; cauline leaves linear or the lower oblanceolate ; heads several, the inv e = m. hi 
finely glandular and moderately or sparsely hirsute with short simeading hairs ; olla es atigneee 
with slightly darker midrib and sometimes paler ome the outer a little shorter nae evidently 
narrower than the relatively broad, thin, inner ones; rays about 75, lilac or hile 5-7 mm. long, 
0.6 mm. wide ; disk-corollas about 2.5 mm. long, the limb white and strongly pert near the 
base, flaring a above ; style -appendages less than 0.1 mm. long; pappus double, the inner of 5-8 
slender bristles, the outer of evident and sometimes more or less tinited “short sable: lichines 
Gravelly spots near river banks, mostly Arid Transition Zone; north fork of as Kern River, Tulare County, 
California. Type locality: near north fork of the Kern River, near Kernvi lle. June 
32. Erigeron divérgens Torr. & Gray. Diffuse Daisy. Fig. 5613. 
ron divaricatus Nutt. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. IT. 7: 311. 1840. Not Michx. 1803 
1 
Taprooted biennial or pees lived seecrcuiak 1 7 dm. ‘teal freely branched, # herbage covered 
with sp is ot = ostly well under 1 mm. long. Basal edi petiolate, with oblanceolate or 
wana blade u Som oun usually eel ‘cauline leaves numerous, smaller, often linear ; 
heads mostly n ous, the involucre 4-5 mm. hi gh, glandular aad spreading-hairy ; phyllaries 
light yellow- conte with broad brown sidveli, the outer a little shorter and evidently narrower 
than the eels broad, ge -margined, inner ones; rays 75-150, blue, pink, or white, 5- 10 mm. 
long, 0.5-1.2 mm. wide, or rarely much reduced ; disk-corollas 2-3 mm. long, the limb white and 
strongly indurated toward ihe base ; style-appendages less than 0.1 m m. long; pappus double, the 
inner of 5-12 y fragile bristles, the outer of conspicuous, re, shor scales; achenes 2-nerved 
ed 
or sometimes pe: ely 4-nerved, the nerves usually inconspicuou 
Dry and waste places in the valleys, aearsagaed and lower mountains, Se uaitis in sandy soils, Upper Sonoran 
and Arid Transition Zones; southern British Columbia and Montana to Lower California, Texas, and Okla- 
homa. Type locality “Rocky Mountains pg plains of Oregon.’”’ April—July, sometimes continuing until fall. 
33. Erigeron calvus Coville. Inyo Daisy. Fig. 5614. 
Erigeron calvus Coville, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash, 7: 69. 1892. 
Taprooted biennial promt 1 dm. tall, branching widely from the base, the herbage hirsute with 
long spreading hairs and the stems finely glandular especially under the heads. Basal leaves nu- 
merous, with oblong to shsate blade 1-1.5 cm. long tapering to a ectibte twice as long: se 
leaves reduced, oblanceolate or spatulate; he a terminating the eae dis 
wide ; involucre abou mm. high, coarsely spreading-hirsute and finely andular “phyllaries 
moderately imbricate, es greenish, sometimes with chaffy margins stillate flow 
pba but the ligules wanting or weap ges and much shorter than the > disk- oe 
4- ong; st vlesappendae 0.15-0.25 mm. long; velpows i coed oor ‘of 15-20 firm 
sandat ‘Basties the outer of several relatively (eae firm setae; achenes 2-nerved. 
pper Sonoran Shy Inyo — untains, California. Type locality: foot # — Shae about 4 miles 
north of Keeler, Inyo County. tay 
34. _ aphanactis (A. Gray) Greene. Basin Rayless Daisy. Fig. 5615. 
Erigeron nn r. aphanactis A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 6: 540. 1865. 
Erigeron Siok tis ip tes , FL. Fran. 389, 1897, 
Perennial with a taproo’ ve branching caudex, mostly 1-3 dm. tall, the henge densely 
spreading-hairy. Basal wows linear-oblanceolate to spatulate, long-petiolate, up to 8 cm. lon 
and 6 ide, persistent or deciduous, the cauline similar but nearly sessile, or linear and re- 
; heads several or solitary, yellow, sometim rning brownish in age; inv 6 mm 
high, glandular and spreading-hirsute, the phyllaries subequal or slightly imbricate, slender, acu- 
minate, green reenish brown, with thick idrib; pistillate flowers present, tubul and 
eligulate or sometimes bearing inconspicuous ligules s et pany: the disk; disk-corollas 2.8-4. 
1 the limb commonly with a firm, whitish, often pu ent portion below the middle; 
mm. long, 
style-appendages 0.1-0.25 mm. long ; pappus double, shed inner of 7-20 bristles, the outer of evident, 
sometimes narrow scales; achenes 2-nerv 
Mostly in hot dry places in the foothills and deherte s, Arid Transition Zone; southwestern Idaho and so uth- 
to Colorado, Arizona, and southern California, largely or was. races om fae, ce a 
rigeron aphanactis var. congéstus (Greene) Cronquist, Brittonia 6: 177. 1947. (Erigeron iauaies 
Greene, Leaflets Bot. Obs. 2: 218. 1912.) Plants about 1 dm. ta a hed less, essentially scapose; corolla-lobes and 
often the upper part of the limb turn ning reddish or purplish at in age. Dry places at moderate to high 
elevations im ne San Bernardino Mountains = Snes Type ow Peg Gold Hill, Bear Valley, San Bernar- 
dino Mountains, San Bernardino County. Jun 
