372 COMPOSITAE 
lar; phyllaries evidently imbricate, firm, acuminate, green or greenish especially the outer, occa- 
sionally pu ber rplish nag pistillate flowers wanting ; disk-corollas 3.7-5.0 mm. lon ng ; style-append- 
ages obtu: .1 mm. long; pappus double, eed inner of 12-28 white or brownish bristles, the outer 
of aa ee ‘hott ane achenes 2- nerved, sparsely hairy. 
Rocky places, Canadian Zone; vicinity of aes summit, Sierra Nevada, California. Type locality: Donner 
Lake, Nevada County. July—Sept. 
58. Erigeron inornatus A. Gray. California Rayless Daisy. Fig. 5639. 
Erigeron douglasii var. ? —— A. Gray, Pacif. R. Rep. 12: 52. 1860. 
Erigeron eel st inornatus A. Gray, Bot. Calif. 1: 330. 1876. 
Erigeron i y, Proc. Amer. Acad. 16: 88. 1880, 
Erigeron pateoky mae Schade. U.S. Nat. Herb. 11: 568. 1906. 
Perennial with a generally stout taproot and root-crown; short stem-base often Lara ed 
in idaamunee s 1-9 dm. tall, generally spreading-hirsute at the base, soon becoming glabrous 
d, o sitbetitnes Ret appressed-hairy to n e summit, or fgity elow and becomi 
glandular upward, or ev et Reise = ut ni except near the base, approaching a 
ates rpc condition. mer: longer n the internodes, only very gradually 
uced upward, without a ional pebog Gres: re filiform ses narrowly oblong or sometimes nobles: 
Sicaclae, commo ah wit a short, slightly cartilaginous area near the base, up to . long 
mm. wide, those of the in ay neato often reduced and di icine generally all ciliate: « on the 
margins, otherwise etek to short-hairy or glandular but not villous; heads several or many, 
rarely solitary, the disk 8-17 mm. wide; involucre 3-9 mm. high, often much shorter than the disk, 
glabrous to densely glandular, rey also a little hairy; phyllaries strongly im paver on narrow, 
t ish o 
sharply acute to Bo aan e, with brown midrib, otherwise greenish or more commo ellow- 
greenish, often purplish above middle; pistillate flowers absent; disk-coroll Ee mm. 
long; style-appendages obtuse or acutis mm. long; pappus double, the inner of 25-60 
coarse brownish bristles, the outer of more or less evident short setae; achenes 2- eeted: sparsely 
often rocky places from the lowlands to pander ste elevations in the mountains, Upper Sonoran and 
‘Tra suet n Zones; southeastern Washington through eastern Oregon to California as far south as San Mateo and 
Tulare ae and in adjacent Nevada. Type locality: ‘Eel River, Men sig County, California. June—Aug. 
going d iption i t eties of the specie 
TO VARIETIES 
Involucre not glandular or only very finely, a and Sot antes so; nearly the range of the species. 
1 var. inornatus. 
distinctly glandular. 
Broader leaves mostly over 2 mm. wide; stem commonly either spreading-hairy at the base or glandular or 
Pisats about 20 cm. high or less; leaves relatively short and broad, the longer ones seldom over 3 cm. 
long, the Preecer ones commonly not over ei ght times as long as broad; stem and leaves generall} 
appressed-hairy (stem spreading-hairy at the base), not at all or only very ig: sg glandular; 
iskiyou County and vicinity viscidulus. 
Plants sng over 20 cm. high; leaves longer, the longer ones generally well over 3 cm. on ng H often but 
always more, nen eight times as long as broad; stem and leaves generally more ss glandu- 
tec commonest i ey fornia Coast Ranges, extending also to Siskiyou County, — “probably 
so in the Sierra Nerd r. biolet: 
Leaves narrower, the broader ones not more than 2 mm. wide; stem subglabrous, cies Bese nor 
spreading-hairy at the base. 
Plants comparatively robust, 2-9 dm. tall; longer leaves mostly over 2.5 cm. pets Sige binec b sah 
Ss. . angusta 
Plants Broa) and slender, mostly 5—15(20) cm. tall; leaves short, the longer ones not = 2.5 ee 7. 
orthern Sierra Nevada. r. reduc 
Erigeron inornatus var. bioléttii_ (Greene) Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Calif. 569. pi 5 enii geron sions 
Greene, Man. Bay Reg. 181. 1894.) acta Peg roe! sgh a tall; leaves generally well over 3 cm. long and 
2 mm = pee bathe less than eight tim s long de on generally more; see usually more or less 
evidently glandular; pkg strongly glandular, aor 6-8 mm. high; hyllaries broader than in typical E. 
us, generally purplish above the middle. Coast Ranges of California from near San Fran i 0 to sag 
poets 7s cocasionally also in Siskiyou County and probably in the Sierra Nevede. . Soe localit nag 3 t Hood, 
rigeron inornatus var. viscidulus A. Gray, Syn, Fl. N. Amer. 12: 215. 1884. (Erigeron viscidulus 
reen ittonia 1: 174. 1888; E. neat hinge Bot. een 41: 290. 1906, not Nutt. 1840.) Plants about 
20 cm. all or less with relatively short broad s seldom r 3 cm, long, the broader ones not more than eig! 
times as long as broad; pubescence at the “hase! phe _ aan inclined to _ paseo than in typical EZ. ron ot 
herbage scarcely or —— glandular ually e pubescent than cal E. anyone sometimes sub- 
glabrous; involucre 5—7 mm. high, distinctly glandular; phyllari rs a little onan than in typical FE. tnornatus, 
often purplish near the tip. Mountains. “ rthern Ca Riornis,” narticularly in the wins er Mount Eddy, 
Siskiyou County. Type — mountai Bes oe the. ean oft oe Sacramento — er, a County. 
rigeron inornatus var. angrthins ory Gray, Syn. Ace 1: 215. 1884. (Erigeron angustatus 
paces Bull, S. Calif. Acad. 1: 88. 885. ) haretex as giv: — ng ; heads itees ep the involucre 
pesnggy SO mm. high; phyllaries often purplish above the Ee peaucar ‘narrower than in var. viscidulus and 
var. ettii but broader than in typical E. inorna heat oe oo a abrous. Coast Ranges of California 
from — County t - Beetle Foaaty Type locality: Red Mou Mendocino Co unty. 
eron inornatus var. redictus Cronquist, hea 6: 288. pet Characters as given in the key; heads 
small er a bay in var. = angustats, Sie pra Nevada oatly y 4-7 mm. high; phyllaries greener tha ~g in the other varieties: 
occas: eva Plac 
Vahe Seg ob od eas ered a from er County to Plumas County, California. Type locality 
59. ee annuus (L.) Pers. Annual Daisy. Fig. 5640. 
coe en annuus eke. ve ngs 1753. 
Eriger gk PL. 2: 431. 1807. 
Mab or sacha biennial, 6-15 dm. tall, the stem sparsely to copiously long-spreading- 
