SUNFLOWER FAMILY 557 
obtuse, entire to few-toothed bis laciniate-pinnatifid ; heads 30-250-flowered, meni nodding befo 
. high i 
one-third as long as the innermost phyllaries; florets yellow achenes bro 
columnar, attenuate toward the base; pappus 7-15 mm. long, the — ae 6-10, “Gel toid to lanceolate 
0.5-4.0 — a mm. long, each tapering itis a white tawny, minutely spiculate to 
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eadows and ad cits ssy hillsid es, Upper sam and Transition Zones; Pacific Slope mostly west of the 
Cas ae ies tain 5 tine the vicinity of uget Sound, "Wa shin renee outh to Sonoma County, California, and 
Mg teouse the Klamath region to Lake Cane pet 4 and porta Nac teens County, California; dager not 
on the ee coa: Type locality: ‘“‘Dry plains of the Columbia, from the Rocky Mountains to the an.’ 
Collecte ee by Douglas. a il-July. 
Toward the ~ enateyer amit t of the range, individuals of this subspecies may possess smaller heads and in- 
volucral phyllaries superficially resembling those found in the generally coastal subspecies /eptosepala, below. 
icroseris laciniata subsp. leptosépala (Nutt.) K. Chambers, Contr. Dudley Herb. 5: 61. paced (Scor- 
zonella yeti Nutt. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. IT. 7: 426. 1841; Calais are es A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 
a: 8; Microseris leptosepala A. Gray, op. cit. 9: 209. 1874; M. bolanderi A. Gray, op. cit. 19: 64. 1883; 
Scorz ue bolanderi bp pe Bull, Gt, Acad. 2: aa 1886; S. laciniata con bolanderi Jepson, Man. FI. Pl. 
Calif. 994, 5; S. leachiana M. E. Peck, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 47: 188. 1934.) Involucre narro t 
ererar areas, Humid Transition Zone; plains of the lower i ette Seats Sryeen, and south “a the coa a 
o Mendocino County, California, Stender inland on the lower Klam and Trinity Rivers and probably else- 
wince on the western. drainage of Bsa Coast Ranges. Type coshiee: poo the pute of the Wahlamet, ” that ig, 
the mouth of the Willamette Rive 
Phi Microseris howéllii A. Gray. Howell’s Scorzonella. Fig. 5962, 
Mi h ht aie Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 20: 300. 1885, emend. Syn. Fl. N. Amer. 12; suppl. 454. 1886. 
Scorzonella h LI: , Bull. Calif. Acad. 2: 52. 1886. 
Glabrous or Puenly se urfy-puberulent nial herb with a fleshy fusiform taproot, the stem 
slender, erect, usually aie 15-50 cm. tall "sparingly pete koh pm below the middle or some- 
times unbranched and only bracteate below. Lea iefly basal, up to cm. long, linear to 
narrowly lanceolate, attenuate, entire or Taciniate? perne F with slender lobes; heads 15—25- 
flowered, nodding before anthesis ; involucres 8-18 mm. high, cylindrical to narrowly campanulate, 
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es 
on each head only 0.5-1.5 mm. broad as less than one-third as long as the innermost phyl- 
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i oe bro oy m. 
base ; pappus 6-12 mm. long, the paleae 6-10, lanc colate, Slates. mm. long (or infrequently only 1 mm. 
long), — tapers into a white, minutely spiculate 
Moi ocky fl frequently in serpentine te aig Zones; Siskiyou Mountains of southern Jose- 
phine ej echeacs C untiek. Oneabks and adjacent California. Type locality: Waldo, Josephine County, Oregon. 
April-July. 
ig axon is ne ee rather similar to M. laciniata subsp. leptosepala, but its habitat and typically 
much gear pappus-paleae ap o be distinctive. 
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5961. Microseris laciniata 5962. Microseris howellii 
