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the fruit. Pappus of 10 to many silvery bristles, some or all of which are gradually 
pressed and widened downward im a narrowly paleaceous basal portion (or the Sristies 
essentially capillary in N. Rds tris). [From the Greek word meaning spurious, plus 
Calais, a synonym of Microseris.] 
2 Gas genus of 4 species native to ater and western North America. Type species, Microseris troximoides 
*“ Nothocalais appea o be most nnd allied to Microseris and to Agoseris, resembling each of these genera 
in one or another of its. fd morphological features. The distinctive combination of characteristics displayed by 
its species, however, marks it as a neta group separate from either related gen 
Pappus of 30-50 capillary bristles; leaves usually toothed or pinnatifid. N. alpestris. 
Pappus of 10-30 elongate narrow paleae tapering into short awns; leaves entire or undulate- margined 
. N. troximoides. 
1. Nothocalais alpéstris (A. Gray) Chambers. Alpine Lake-agoseris. Fig. 5957. 
Troximon alpestre A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 19: 70. 1883. 
Trox imon barbell Gieeh e ex A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Amer. 12: 437. 1884. 
Agoseris alpestris Gre ere 177. 1891 
Agoseris edntinicia Green, lo oc. 
Microseris alpestris Q. Jone myst onquist, Vasc. Pl. Pacif. apa 5:-267.1955, 
Nothocalais alpestris Cheohee Contr. Dudley Herb. 5: 66. 
Glabrous or puberulent, perennial herb with an stniae: blackish, simple or multicipital, 
underground caudex and deep taproot. Leaves all basal, 3-20 cm. long, linear to oblanceolate or 
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S ay entire or more often remotel thed or pinnatifid with linear to broadly deltoid lobes 
s 1 to several ee the basal age erect, simple, 3-30 cm. t rous above, sometimes 
bracteate near the base; heads erect, 10- to many-flowered ; cna a res 10-20 mm. high, broadly 
narrowly c sshiarenlats, strictly hieuve the outer pyila gs ee te or ovate-lanceolate, 
attenuate, lightly shorter than the narrower inner ones, fin vn a ted with ink ate dorsally ; 
achenes br rown, about 10-ribbed, 5-10 mm. long, raicale, or the -3 m what nar- 
rower ge lightly scabrous ; pappus 6-10 mm. long, the 30-50 se recites Teristics r tarbelisiate 
or rarely subplumose. 
Open meadows and g lly slopes, Boreal Zones; Cascade Mountains from Mount Rainier, W. shington, 
io Gitkiyou remntchy California, and in the Sierra Nevada near Lake Tahoe. Type locality: Mount Adams, ash- 
ington. June—Aug. 
2. Nothocalais oxime (A. Gray) Greene. False-agoseris. Fig. 5958. 
Microseris siaspornawee Gray, Proce. r. Acad. 9: 211. 1874. 
Nothocalais troxim s Gr reine; re bi Acad. 2:55. 1886. 
Nothocalais re reene, op. cit. 54. 
Scorzonella troximoides Jepson, Gas. FI. Pl. Calif. 994. 1925. 
Glabrous or oe villous, a al herb with a stout, blackish, underground caudex and 
long, often rope-like taproot. Leaves in a bas al cluster, ‘rather sti tiff and apn ar linear to linear- 
te) i ire 1 s nutely 
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1 to several, Lge oe cm. tall, simple or only bracteate below, glabrous or + whine villous toward 
the e apex ; heads erect, 10- to mana flowered; involucres 14-25(30) mm. high, broadly or narrowly 
mpan nulate, the ehribasies narrowly or broadly lanceolate, attenuate, glabrous or ciliate and 
iia: villous along the midline, misien dotted or lined with purple on the midline, the outer 
5957 
5956. Cichorium kane 
5957. Nothocalais 
