SUNFLOWER FAMILY 487 
fornia, in Mar Contra Costa, and Ala a bovotn, and south to Santa Cruz County. Type locality: based 
ona collected: oe Kellogg aa ‘Haittora ror 6) — fs unknown locality and a collection made by Brewer at 
Walnut Creek, Contra Costa County, Californias April- 
3. Stylocline micropoides A. Gray. Woolly Stylocline or Desert Nest-straw. 
Fig. 5854 
Stylocline micropoides A. Gray, Smiths. Contr. 5°: 84. 1853. 
Erect to diffuse, gray-woolly annual, simple-stemmed or usually vice yes digester 4-13 cm 
high. Toten actin spatulate to nearly linear, 4-12 mm. long —l. wide. usu ally 
acute or acuminate, apiculate, those subtending the heads larger, often lanceolate; onde clu stered 
i woolly than ir 
s an the y 
he bract; staminate flowers with a pappus of about 3-5 deciduous bristles ; See iiiosad. 
scarcely compressed, short- aia gi — 1.5 mm. long. 
In desert places, often ar rocks, Lower Sonoran Zone; Inyo County, nae Pog south through the 
ere and Colorado Deserts, yaa any cant to southern Utah, Arizona, and Mexico —_ southern 
Son Type locality: ‘‘Hills near bie sgeint New Mexico.’”” March-April. Some pris: he mem tom 4 e higher 
Devatierini in the Mo oiaee Desert suggest S. pstlocarphoides in growth form. 
5851. Anaphalis margaritacea 5853. Stylocline amphibola 
5852. h 
lioid: 5854. Sty ‘cate micropoides 
