SUNFLOWER FAMILY 379 
stem with divaricately spreading branches, Sarees | dafaghre: but bearing tack-shaped glands 
below the heads. Basal leaves 3-4 cm. long, wed t petioliform base, irregularly toothed, 
soon deciduous; upper leaves progressively pied ae lat oblanc olate to linear-lanceolate, 
mostly entire, bearing an apical cusp, loosely et tata ok flowered: few bract-like gis ae ei 
; heads 5-10-flowered ; 
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glands, the outer more densely glandular ; coeottes lavender, ‘he’ outer port. Re scarcely palmately 
spreading; appendages of the style-branches evidently cusped; pappus united into 5 paleaceous 
awns. 
Thin gravelly —_ mostly = serpentine, Upper Sonoran Zone; hills of Marin County, especially on Mount 
Wagitlenie: the type locality. Se 
This taxon ke Pt taxa are very limited in distribution. They appear to be akin to the L. nema- 
clada carer 
Lessingia micradenia var. glabrata (Keck) Ferris, Contr. Dudley Herb. 5:.101. 1958. (Lessingia ramu- 
losa var. glabrata Keck, Aliso 4: Boe ioe Like L. micradenia var. micradenia in habit and leaf-shape, the 
— on sys er pl co ak heads 3-5-flowered; involucre shout 4 ee 
uppermost bract-like leaves persistently tom 
mm. long, cylindro- eer ape pe lari ies wi ith Vv y few small stipitate glands, cpl more abundant, larger bse 
sessile or short- gpa ne large vitae pes as present; pit an m7 tles more or _ ted below. On 
pe ig inner slo “of the Coast Range, Santa Clara County. Type locality: eat of L Gat atos on road to 
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ar Lessingia virg 
5650. Lessingia 
5647. Lessingia lemmonii 
5648. Lessingia nana pita 
