558 COMPOSITAE 
5. Microseris paludésa (Greene) J. T. Howell. Marsh Scorzonella. Fig. 5963. 
Microserts sylvatica var. stillm ages NAD y, Proc. Amer. Acad. 9: 208. 1874. 
Scorsonella paludosa Greene aL aad. Bone. 
Scorzonella sittin var. wtillmands Jenson, Man. a PE, Calif. 994, 1925, 
ntegrifolia Jepson, loc 
ee plows f T Ho well, Leaflets West Bor. 5: 108. 1948. 
or seaciget: Reagan sks: a nd pi Seachente | <o ve. bose fly basal, u 4 g, sinter 
to oblanceolate, attenuate above, ire to toothed ot on eee with slender lobes ; heads 
75-fl ed, ing before anthesis ; shape s 10— high, broadly campanulate, the 
inner phyllaries — Sembee the o open een shorter and loosely imbricate, 
glabrous dorsally or often scurfy, lance eola ats or ovate-attenuate, the smallest ones on each head 
os m. broa ied ies Aofers yellow; achenes (except the lari pale straw-colored or dull 
white, 4-7 m ong, columnar, attenuate toward the base; pappus 8-12 mm. long, tawny, the 
aa: wie ge de 24 mm. long, each tapering into a pale barbellulate awn 
Moi assy meadows and open woods, Upper Sonoran and Transition Zones; in Calltocnix from central 
Sonoma County to San prenciore and south along the coast to the ag att A ee ninsula. Type locality: “On Mark 
West’s creek,’’ Sonoma County, California. Collected by Bigelow. April—-Ju 
6. Microseris sylvatica (Benth.) Sch.-Bip. Sylvan Scorzonella. Fig. 5964. 
Scorzo: ibis sy lvatica Benth. Pl. Hartw. 320. 1849. 
Calais sylvatica A. Gray in Torr. Pacif. R. Rep. 4: 114. 1857. 
poicedasaies ssleatca Sch. -Bip. Pollichia 22-24: 309. 1866. 
il se recap pee tnagen 
> ralaaieds lepidota Heller, Muhlenbergia 2: 14 
Microserts montana H. M. Hall, Univ. ‘Calif. are Hs 3: 252. 1907. 
Glabrous or seury. puberulent, perennial herb with a slender elongate taproot, the stems few, 
erect or curved at the base, slender or stout, 15-75 cm. tall, leafy and branched gp the base or 
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om es y above. Leaves iefly te) cm. long, na 
rowly elliptic to broadly oblanceolate, attenuate above, <i iculate to laciniately toothed or pin- 
ati eads 30-100-flowered, nodding before anthesis; involucres 12-25 mm. high, 
campanulate to hemispherical, ae inne r phy flories rece ciaae. attenuate, the outer phyllaries un- 
equal, shorter and loosely imbricate, Peers rous or scurfy- pater elon, ‘ea hy lanceolate- or ovate- 
attenuate, the shortest ones on ae h head often over 2 mm. broad; florets yellow; achenes pale 
straw-colored or dull white, 5-11 mm. long, columnar ; atc 2 18 m nape Say id wny, the paleae 
6-12, narrowly lanceolate, 5-10 mm. ig minutely fimbriate at the soe about the base a the 
subplumose rather 
Grassy flats, hill te es, sale open woods, Upper Sonoran Zone; Inner Coast Ranges from Glenn County to 
Sie Benite pout gti! can ornia, and Sierra Nevada foothills from Butte County to the Greenhor rn and Aepachan! 
Mountains, and n n Los ‘Ang eles County. Type locality: “In sylvis vallis Sacramento.’”” March—May 
7. Microseris linearifélia (Nutt.) Sch.-Bip. Uropappus. Fig. 5965. 
Calais lindleyi DC. 85. 1838. 
Calais linearifolia DC. loc. cit. Spee Ty: 
ropappus lindleyi Trans. Amer. Phil. yay II. 7: 425. 1841. Confused name. 
oc. cit. 
cit. 
Calais macrochaeta A. Gray, Mem. Amer. Acad. II. 4: 112. 1849. 
Microseris linearifolia Sch.- Bis. Pollichia 22-24: 308. 1866. 
Microseris lindleyi A. ey: Proc. Amer. Acad. 9: 210. 1874, except for description, which applies to M. hetero- 
used na: 
Slender, puberulent or nearly wage annual herb, 10-70 cm. tall, nenely acaulescent to pea 
long-stemmed, bearin ing solitary head on naked, scape-like peduncles. Leaves often reddish, 
3 dm. long, linear, long-attemate at the tip, entire or pinnatifid with saan yh aw a pee 
ing below into a a br oad, what clasping, often ciliate ~~ i aelge villous petio 
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m. long, silvery, deciduous after ‘maturity, consisting of 5 linear-lanceolate palees 
each fabian at ina eer, hair-like awn that arises from 3 nb ope notch in the palea apex. "= 7. 
Dry scrub and grasslands, in well-drained soil, o ged = open s Sonoran and eee Zones; bie ; 
man County, i pslitaton, south to Lower Cali fornia, ¢ t to cet sence Idaho through ——* ta 
and Arizona to southwestern New Mexico. "Fee eet < "Colttoraia Collected by pe Pe April 
8. Microseris heterocarpa (Nutt.) Chambers. Derived Microseris. Fig. 5966. 
Uropappus heterocarpus Nutt. Trans, Bicrei Phil. Soc. II. 7: 425. 1841. 
shag ess parryi A. Gray eet R. Rep. 4: 112. 1857. 
‘ollichia oes 309. 1866. 
este kelloggit tacts Bank Calif. Acad. 2: 49. 1886. 
