556 COMPOSITAE 
1. Microseris borealis (Bong.) Sch.-Bip. Apargidium. Fig. 5959. 
Apargia borealis Bong. Mém. Acad. * Pétersb. VI. Math. Phys. Nat. 2: 146. 1832. 
Leontodon boreale DC. Prod. 7: gon 
ares ium & boreale Torr. & Gra 3 Ais er. 2: us 1843, 
Sch. -Bip. athe — 310 866, 
Scorzonella borealis Greene, Pittonia 2: 
Glabrous, acaulescent, perennial herb with numerous fleshy roots from a short rootstock. 
Leaves up to 30 cm. long, linear- vchlaneanlane acute to acuminate, ent or remotely denticulate ; 
scapes slender, naked and unbranched, erect or curved at t se, 1S m. tall, sometimes lig = 
urfy above; heads - ed, nodd before anthesis; involucr 8 m hig 
panulate, the inner phyllaries Se the outer phyllaries shorter, 1 ane imbricate, 
linear or lan ne serrate, ove ro c ee le black-tomentose; florets yellow 
achenes bro ong, nar, atten the : a panels s 5-10 mm. he a 
ete Browitieh harbelialate awns GHEY slighty thickened 2 the bas 
rshy meadows and sphagnum bogs, Hu Transition and_Boreal soni along the — Seer rion 
PERS wag te British Columbia and south at pen or iri in the Cascade Mountains of Wa shing and Ore 
to Humboldt County, California. Type locality: Sitka, Alaska. Collected by Mertens. June— yf tre 
2. Microseris nutans ( Hook.) Sch.-Bip. Nodding Scorzonella. Fig. 5960. 
Sg }7. 
t Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. ah 1847. 
Crepis nutans Geyer ex Hook. loc. cit., as as 
Ptilophora nutans A. Gray ——— Amer. Ac af "IL on “143. 1849. 
A. 
0. 
Ptilophora major B rape A. Grad , loc 
Calais nutans A. pee in ta Pacif, R. ae #2113. -1857< 
1 
Calais nutans var. latifolia D. C. Eaton, Bot. Key ear 197. $1871, 
Stephanomeria (?) waite ae Proc. Calif. Acad. 5: 39. 1873. 
Calais gracitiloba K llogg, o 
Ptilocalais nutans Green ne, Bull, “ali Acad. 2: 54. 1886. 
Pesecaiote major Greene, loc 
Leg gee ae | 
ureen 
Ptilocalais ce Oster Mahiskces te 4% 
ge cros ged r Nels. & Macbr. Bot. Gaz 1916 
var. ase Tee Man. FI. Pl. tobe en 1925, 
Glabrous 1 
few, erect or curved at t A base, sle nder, 10-70 cm. or usually branched and leafy abo ve. flaves 
it spat 
; r t anulat i 
outer phyllaries unequal, shorter and nearly area st eas core r often scurfy-puberu- 
lent, aged = —. Bdegrs the smallest ones on each head m. br a G r less; florets yellow; 
achenes g —8.0 mm. long, columnar or eetainea fusiforia: pappus 5-10 m 
fa bright whe ‘the i. 15-30, oblong or nk 1-3 mm. long, obtuse or somewhat fim- 
riate — ses slender distinctly plum 
Range a and conte in the Sier > Nevada and North Coast Range of California east to Wyoming and Colorado. Typ € 
loc: “Dry sunny loamy ge Porte ok of Spokan and Coeur d’Aleine cncusthita Kicil —Aug 
3. Microseris laciniata (Hook.) Sch.-Bip. Cut-leaved Scorzonella. Fig. 5961. 
—— mardgnets Hook. Ae a Amer. 1: 300. 1833. 
beg onema ? laciniatum Hoo! 01. 
Scscaecelh pe as. Trans sone Phil. Soc. II. 7: 426. 1841. 
a Nutt. loc 
s Gar in ice Pacif. R. Rep. 4: 113. 1857. 
Microseris laciniata Sch.-Bip. Pollichia 22-24: 309. 1866 
Calais glauca A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 7: 364. 1868. 
7 procera A ci 
Pe SF 
8 r ~~ — fe procera A. ae op. cit. 9: 209. 1874. 
ris proc ray, op. cit. 19: 64. 1883. 
Scorsnalla shoot ye Greene, a Calif. Acad. 2: 50. 1886. 
Scorzonella procera Greene, ] 
aac ella pratense Greene ts. oe Sl. 
Drew, Bull. Torrey Club 16: 152. 1889, 
a maxima Bioletti, Erythea 1: 69. 18! 
Scorzonella procera var. pratensis Jepson, Man. Fl. Pl. Calif. 994, 1925, 
labr 
taproot, the stem goed : rect, aie nder to very stout, 15-1 120 cm. tall, rather agecione'd leafy or 
bracteate “then Rs: above o Lp Sanat hs only near the “sg or uw c all indi- 
viduals. Leaves chiefly basal, up . 50 cm. long, a: to broadly oblanceolate, attenuate to 
