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3. Lessingia glandulifera A. alge Valley Lessingia. Fig. 5646. 
L ia glandulifera A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 1 882, 
L gt var. elo I T. Howell, Mls ae Pub. Bot. 16: 19. 1929, 
[ ngia var. tenutpes J. T. Howell, op. cit. 20. 
Lessingia var eaters: T. Howell, op. cit. 22. 
Annual, (1)2-7.5 dm. high, more or less slender to rather stout, branched below the middle 
with stiffly spreading ssaine: these much branched above, the herbage in younger plants loosely 
tomentose below often up to the “aeaees beet inflorescence but becoming glabrate in age, very 
eaves 2-6 cm. 
ar and strongly scented. Lowest | ong, vate or oblanceolate, pinnate to 
pinnately lobed (rarely bipinnatifid), narrowed to a petioliform base; st leave ller, sessile, 
] te, en thed, the uppermost bract-like and rather densely beset h 
ender floweri ranches, usually with tack-shaped marginal gland e r ome- 
times glandular ; heads 17-33- ered; involucre 5 h, broadly turbinate, the phyllaries 
closely imbricate, about 6-seriate, gland also with tack-sha gla yellow with 
ular t pe 
a pil tds plish band at the throat, the outer palmately cleft; ese i of style-branches deltoid to 
arrowly tri uss el with or without a short cusp; pappus-bristles 30 or more, i to the base. 
Grasslands, Son Zon San Faves 5": County in the Central Pater and the adjac Coast Ranges 
to cients citing California and L r California; le the foothill area of the Sierra Nevada from Pere 
Coun ais southward. Type locality: not defnit ie stated. y—Nov 
singia glandulifera var. pectisata. iucene) “Tensom 7. . Pl. Calif. 1041. 1925. iLersingie pecti- 
nata cist Proc. Acad. Phila. 1895: 548. 6; a var. pectinata J. T. Howell, Univ. Calif. 
Pub. Bot. 16:18. 1929.) Plants very diffuse ia Mod nched from the base, glabrous or soon gla Soise. more or 
less glandular throughout; canine leaves pectinate- vinnalifd with cuspidate segment; shy lave with con- 
spicuous glands, the tips squarrose. Dunes near the coast, Monterey ay south to northern Santa Barbara 
pena dha locality: Monterey. 
ngia glandulifera var. tomentosa (Greene) Ferris, Contr. Dudley Herb. 5: 101. 1958. (Lessingia 
choy pannel Leaflets Bot. Obs, 2: 32. Phe L. germanorum var. tomentosa J. T. ity Univ. Calif. 
Pub. eo 16: 24. 1929.) Plants depre ssed, ely tomentose throughout except the involuc these 5-6 mm. 
high, with large marginal glands. Gecdear part of the Colorado Desert, San Diego County. Collected by 
reutt. 
4, pes lemmonii A. eo oe Lessingia. Fig. 5647. 
oe lemmonit A. eae roc. Amer. Acad. 2 
essingta | eee. T. sha Gan hoe Pub. Bot. 16: 25. 1929. 
Annual, 6-30 cm. high, branching from the base when young with few freee branches, 
oe much Laas d above in age, the branches je pe os when you soon green 
and finely glandular-puberulous. Lower leaves 3-3.5 cm. long, spatulate or 5 ovate ; stem- 
out 1 gi 
ered; lucres 5-6 mm. h close 
imbricate, obtuse or acute, glandular-puberulent and bearing large margina lands; corollas 
yellow, w aioe a purplish band at the throat, the outer pa alin ately sigh aed appendages of the 
style-branches . 7- mittee m. long, slender-subulate ; pappus-bristles mostly fre abundan 
Dry sa we Zones; northwestern Arizona west through San neniee County, eS 
and pr in te ee ae is the Mount Pinos region. Ventura and Los Angeles Counties; occurring sparingly 
in eastern Santa Barbara County. Serpe locality: Ashfork, Yavapai County, 5 eto Jun 1e—Sept. 
ia ermal var. ramulosissima (A. Nels.) Ferris. Contr. Dudley Herb. 5: 101. 1958. (Les- 
Fi ma Nels. Univ. ate Publ. Sci. 1:.138. 1926; L. noel var. ramulosissima J. T. 
deci "Unie, Calif. Pub Bot. 16: 1929.) Like L. Jemmonii var. lem in stature and branching but 
older plants more intricately ed “herbage including phyllaries more uae ats differs in having narrower 
5645. Lessingia tenuis 5646. Lessingia glandulifera 
