428 COMPOSITAE 
nials with simple, entire or sparingly toothed, aa ie or basal leaves (or the reduced 
lowermost leaves sometimes opposite), and solitary or few, yellow or orange-colored heads. 
| Named for its similarity to Raillardia, of the Hawsiian Islands. | 
A genus of 5 species, native to the mountains of California (and adjacent Nevada) and Oregon. Type 
species, "Reillerdia argentea A, Gray. 
Stems iamgaa leafy = ss cath — hed; 1l-developed basal leaves present 
Le sa or obtus e lowermost ones apposite, reduced and somewhat scale-like, more or less 
te-sheathin Sat. “. poo ; heads ordinarily with a few short rays; Inner North — perms 52 of 
Ca 
Leaves Saar aay all alternate, none sheathing; heads strictly discoid; southern Sierra Nevada 
2 1rit, 
Stems mets nd monocephalous, scapose or subscapose; leaves chiefly or more often entirely basal. 
Leaves green, either glabrous or glandular, not at all tomentose. 
"He ads bout 20 or more (probably com pesly peng 21) involucral bracts and 6-10 well- Sot hy ka 
rays; leaves strictly eons’ tea! vicinity of Mount Eddy, California 3. R. pri a 
Heads mostly with about about 13 involucral maticg discoid or soandtines with 1-3(5)_ irregu- 
onal Setnaes rk leaves pie to densely and sometimes in smoneaieisile 
hai well; Cascade thern Te of central Oregon south through the Sierra Rae and on 
io e pia, apos 
Leaves gray, silky-tomentose; Cascade Mountain tral Oregon south through the Sierra Nevada. 
5. ee argentea. 
1. Raillardella scabrida Eastw. Leafy Raillardella. Fig. 5737. 
Raillardella scabrida Eastw. Bull. Torrey Club 32: 216. 1905. 
Raillardiopsis scabrida Rydb. N. Amer. FI. 34: 320. 1927. 
Stems several from a stout woody root and branching caudex, often curved at the base, 1-5 d 
tall, chaanealy branched and bearing several heads ; herbage e hirsute and stipitate- glandular, cists 
hirsute below, more glandular above. Leaves rather numerous and well distributed along the stems, 
principally alternate, small, och or nearly so, more or less obtuse, mostly 1-3 cm. long and 1. 
mm. wide, the lowermost ones reduced and more or less ae opposite, connate-sheathing ; 
heads naked-aeramculats at the fa of the branches, discoid o e commonly at least some of 
them with 2 or 3 short broad rays up to about 6 mm. long; cavaraere o 12m — coarsely long- 
ent eid the broad bracts mostly about 8 or 10; rays epappose, their achenes glabrous or 
nis hairy ; disk-flowers wit ‘a a papus of about 15 or more elongate, plumose awn-scales, shorter 
he He ubescent linear achen 
ye en, stony places, Canadian Sain in the Inner Coast Ranges of Lake, Mendocino, and ie ao mg Counties, 
Californie. glovatioe up to 7,500 feet. Type locality: Snow Mountains, Lake County. July— 
ae " Raltigrets muirii A. Gray. Muir’s Raillardella. Fig. 5738. 
Raillardella muirii A. Gray, Bot. cag 1: 618. 1876. 
Raillardiopsis muirti Rydb. N. Amer. Fl. 34: 320. 1927. 
Habitally similar to R. s se ida, Leaves acute, apparently all alternate, none sheathing ; pond 
age less hairy and less glan dar heads age the involucre with about 13 bracts ; pappus- 
bers _ = t 10, longer than achen 
d local in open sak a et aa agg oie Canadian and Hudsonian Zones; in the southern 
Rar 
Sierra Tvada; ely Type locality: in the Sierra Neva da, supposedly near Yosemite, perhaps actually 
farther south. July—Aug. 
ee ape ptinglei Greene. Showy Raillardella. Fig. 5739. 
Greene, Torrey Club Mt 17. 1882, 
Raillardella ‘scaposn var. aaa ieee Man. FI, Pl. Calif. 1146. 1925. 
Scapose perennial with a stout kc rhizome or caudex. Leaves oblanceolate or linear- 
ho 310 cm. long, 6-8 mm. wide, wholly glabrous, firm, some of them remotely and shallowly 
ars e 
: — $ n R. scaposa ; involucr high, shorter than the disk bracts 
relatively numerous, rep y 20-30, coarsely stipitate-glandular and more or less long-ciliate as 
ll; rays well developed, about m. long, d rifid, salmon or brick-colored; pappu 
Stream banks and w Hudsonian "par in the vicinity of Mount Eddy, northern California. Type 
locality : mountains west of Moone ir thang Aug.-Sep 
4, Raillardella scapésa A. Gray. Green-leaved Raillardella. Fig. 5740. 
Raillardia scaposa A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 6: 551. 1865 
Raillardella scaposa * Gray, Bot. Calif. 1: 417. 1876. 
on saree ite se <n ar. eisent A. pans ite ls se Amer. 17: 380. 
fe Ne Is. & Ken 
Raillardella scaposa nevadensis Blake, is tr: oo = Nat. Herb. 25: 605. 1925. 
Fibrous-rooted, scapose or subscapose perennial from gabe caudex. Leaves narrowly 
éibtisinectane: pained 3-15 cm long disraagen the auoedor base) an d 3-8 mm. wide, en ntire, greel, 
sparsely to densely stipitate-glandula ar (as also the scape) and sometimes inconspicuously hairy as 
well; scape 2-40 cm. tall; heads solitary, discoid or — af soa with 1-3(5) ee cainc is devel- 
