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involucres and more bracteate primase branches. Owens ada Inyo County, California, and in the north- 
western Mojave Desert. Type locality: Hinckley, San Bernardino County. 
Lessingia lemmonii var. peirsonii (J. T. Howell) Ferris, Contr. Dudley Herb. 5: 101. 1958. (Les- 
singia germanorum var. peirsonu J. T. Howell, > basil Calif. Pub. Bot. 16:26. 1929.) Like L. lemmonii var. 
lemmonit in growth habit, pode in hav sd dig a oe matted tomentum wie is only partly deciduous in age 
and by persistently woo olly i ucres. Wes Mojave Desert and the adj cent mountains of Kern and north- 
ern Los Angeles Counties. Te locality: Kings Canyon, Liebre ome Los Angeles County. 
5. Lessingia nana A. Gray. Dwarf Lessingia. Fig. 5648. 
Lessingia nana A. Gray in Benth. Pl. Hartw. 315. 1849. 
cage gingra sane onl caulescens A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. aoe 12; 163. 1884. 
885. 
reen e, Bull. Calif. jemi ) ae 3 
Dw at plants, stemless or nearly so, 1 = high or with a few erect or decumbent, some- 
times prancing stems 2.5-10 cm. high, sabi e g white-lanate throughout with long tangled hela 
the leaves becoming elabrate i in age. Basal leaves rosulate, up to 3.5 cm. long, petiolate, linear- 
oblanceolate, acute and spinescent-tipped, entire or waver iemeis thed, pene eined, the 
stem-leaves similar, atl apc te, about Ace m. ; heads hatches at the base or at ends 
of branches, 10-15-flowered; invo ucres 7 high, as e outer fies vee ge woolly, 
lanceolate, mucronate, green-tipped, the in scans: sc us- ene taceous, with a stiffly erec 
cartilaginous, awned tip; corollas rose- “aiorel or ole ‘all essentially regular ; Wie: branches 
with or without a sho pe p; achenes 2-3 mm. aioli: pappus-bristles showy, rose-colored o 
rufous, = twice as — - — chenes. 
Open ces plains and slopes, Sonoran Zones; Sacramento Valley and adjacent eastern slopes from 
Tehaden Score seat thecual on “Bae —_ Valley — i Rel sag ohare in Kern County; also na- 
tividad, Monterey County (Abbott). Type ality: near S ento. Collected by Pickering. June—Oct 
6. Lessingia virgata A. Gray. Virgate Lessingia. Fig. 5649. 
—— virgata A. Gray in Benth. Pl. Hartw. 315. 1849 
Lessingia subspicata Greene, Leaflets Bot. Obs. 2: 29. 1910. 
en rather stout annual, 4-6 dm. high, Tag te at and also above the base with 
imes present with heads in small glomerules), the h bage densel lly-tomentose, becom- 
ing glabrate. Lowest lea oblanceolate, acute, soon w , the line 1 0 
long, the uppermost scarcely reduced, usually longer than the inter , appressed, obl 
vate to ovate; ; involucres 5-7 mm. high, indro-turbinate, the phyllaries 
-seriat ly imbricate, glandular, loosely woolly below, and pur ; corollas lav 
e, close : 
der, the outer palmately cleft ; appendages of the style a amen with a short es : sie subulate 
cusp; pappus-bristles 27-32, about pier aling the achene, tending to be united at the bas 
__ Dry plains vagy Pry io OP ono aap the ie r Sonoran Zone; Sete ae <a es! nat ng foot- 
hills from Tehama ounties ‘ute i in the aoethiors San Joaquin Valley to San Joaquin and Stanislaus 
Counties. Type ey poe. Sacramento. June—Oct. 
7. Lessingia nemaclada siete Slender-stemmed Lessingia. Fig. 5650. 
Lessingia — var. microcephala A. Gra roc. — Acad. 7: 351. 1868. 
Lessingia nemaclada Greene, Bull. Calif. pore 5 191. 188 
Lessingia ramu be losa var. setivaceshle Jepson, Man. FI. Pl. cutie 1041, 1925. 
Erect, very slender annual, 1-3 dm. high, either simple below and branched above or branched 
from the abe the ultimate ascending or spreading and filiform, glabrous. Lower leaves oblong- 
oblanceolate, Lond rrowed to a petioliform base, wll sessile above and conduplicate, loosely 
w . mm. lon 
1 i : g, app a 
woolly within, glabrous without; heads solitary at the ends of the branchlets ; involucres 
high, Seep opts the phyllaries about 5-seriate, tieatoliede s cute, glabrous except for 
sessile and s ap glands; corollas lavender, 1 or 2 palma tely cleft; the usped appendages of 
the ee rid about 0. ‘5-0. .* m. long; pappus of 5 pa or btistly, "yaleaiaans awns or 
Glenn Sonoran ithe occurring rather locally from Eldorado County to Mariposa Cou 
andthe Cou ng = and Lake Counties in the Inner Coast Range. Type locality: Sweetwater peck. 
Lessingia Nee var. mendocina (Greene) J. T. get Sav. v. Calif. Pub. Bot. 16: 28. 1929. 
(Lessin Greene, = Bot. - - — ete ‘osa Greene, op. oit. 30; L. fastigiata 
ig ; : » dO, crt.) n highly mt in form, stouter and more leafy op 
. nemac spider’ nemaclada an d the {upper | ‘ranches, “though slender, not filiform; heads 4—-11-flow ecto sti 
ndages of style-branches a little longer; pappus-brist es 
14-23, free above, more or less Born H ious, ata at the base. Abundant in the northern Inner Coast 
anges extending to Lake County; also 
n the Mount h 
Sinera dices Bor wah Seren y > Co ho ount Hamilton Range (H. Sharsmith) and the foothills of the 
Lessingia nemaclada var. albi a (East 9. ke Univ. Calif. Pub. Bot. 16:29. 1929. ‘tee 
sia aibtteos 4 Eastw. Bull. Tae Club $2: 217, 1905; hc 2 yon a om var. albiflora Jepson, Man 
Cali aes: Be .) A slender er ase with slender divaricate branches and - ads 6—8-flowered aa white ok 
a 
he lobes suffused with pale lavender. Inner Coast Ranges, southern Monterey 
ro sents to the Tehachapi iacmrsine and the southern Sierra foothills in ae County. 
8. Lessingia micradénia — Tamalpais Lessingia. Fig. 5651. 
Lessingia micradenia Greene, Leaflets Bot. Obs. 
—r ramulosa var. micradenia J. T. Howell, ana po Pub. Bot. 16: 39. 1929. 
er annual, 34 dm. high, stems simple below, paniculately branched from about mid- 
