SUNFLOWER FAMILY 367 
49, uit compactus Blake. Cushion Daisy. Fig. 5630. 
Erigeron pulvinatus Rydb. Fl. Rocky Mts. 911. 1917. Not leg 1857, 
Erigeron compactus Blake, lit Biol. Soc. Wash. 35: 78. 
Pulvinate-cespitose perennial with a short, cata branched caudex and : stout taproot. Leaves 
all basal, Sneed strigose, linear, 4-20 mm. long, 0.6~-1.1 mm. wide; involucre 5-6 mm. high, finely 
strigose and obscur ra -slutinos : nie tities slightly i hed rcate, stramineous or light greenish a 
brown midrib, the ou rrow a and slightly thickened, the Sf pne der and thinner, some tim 
purple-tipped, all avi th nd acute; rays 15-30, white or pin ish, ¢ m. ox tae about 2 nape wi es 
disk-corollas 4.5-6.0 mm. fon g; Raigad appendages acute, 0.2-0. ‘on mm. long; pappus 
slender, firm, slightly sordid bristl tles and some yids nt outer setae; achenes 2-nerved, ctor Pag 
ously long- ciliate on the margins, otherwise aire 
Dry places in the valleys a porn Arid a nada Zone; Inyo poate, ne to northeastern 
Wivuae and northwestern Utah. Type locality : Deep Creek, Tooele County, Utah. y—-Jun 
50. Erigeron parishii A. Gray. Parish’s Daisy. Fig. 5631. 
Erigeron parishtt A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Amer. 12: 212. 1884. 
Perennial with a stout taproot and branching caudex; stems. several, 10-35 cm. high, stout, 
Ei ls «Se with a dense, villous-strigose, appresse pubescence, more densely so toward the 
base, where the pubescence may be looser and villous. Leaves goes jes Ma ea gore ae. less 
censely so and merely grayish, all linear or linear-oblanceolate, the basal on and 
4 mm. wide, often deciduous before anthesis, the cauline ones a little ae phd ‘but — 
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