560 COMPOSITAE 
9. Microseris decipiens Chambers. Santa Cruz Microseris. Fig. 5967. 
Microseris decipiens Chambers, Contr. Dudley Herb. 4: 290. 1955. 
<= rfy, somewhat glabr eri annual herb. 10-40 cm. a ve pianos or with a short basal 
the head solitary. on bi scapose peduncles. Leaves 5-15 cm. long, linear or narrow 
elliptic attenuate, alee with “inear me hee lobes ; head 1 40. flow ered, broadly fusiform 
n fruit, inclined befo sips ear matur vied: “glabro ous externally, black-villous within, 
the few outer Shs tlsries a fect pi wets than the ones, unequal and nearly calyculate; 
florets yellow; ach mm. long, brow 
ruits often wit ith purple flecks), columnar-fusiform, not a outward at the apex; pappus 
7-10 mm. long, persistent but fragile, the 5 lanceolate palea .0 mm. long, silvery or dull, 
witha yellowish midrib sa erose apex beari ing a slender spiculate awn. w= 18. 
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Cruz mo California. April species resembles M. Nheindlerpe but it is qeite reltricted in range 
nd sents an amphiploid dedi vative ig M. lindleyt and M. bigelovii. 
10. Microseris douglasii (DC.) Sch.-Bip. Douglas’ Microseris. Fig. 5968. 
Calais douglasit ys Prod. 7: 85. 8. 
Calais cyclocarpha A. Gray, Pacif. R. Rep. 4: 113, p. 18, figs. 1-6. 1857. 
G alate eric phe A. Cars: Proc. Amer. Acad. 6: 552. 1865. 
Sch.-Bip. Pollichia 22-24: 308. 1866. 
Microseris opclocuvpke ae -Bip. loc. cit. 
nr eyelocerpas var. eriocarpha A. Gray, ni eit Acad. 9: 210. 1874. 
Greene, Bull. Torrey eile 
Microseris parishiit Greene, Bull. Calif. Acad. 2: 46. rien, as ass si not of authors. 
Microseris platycarpha var. parishii H. M. Hall, ites Calif. P 
Scurfy-puberulent, eeculcecest. annual herb bearing solitary head on slender scapose pe- 
hinseng: caren at eh Bo — 5-60 cm. tall. Lea in a basal cluster, 3-25 cm. long, linear to 
oblanceolate, attenu ntire or Snatsely pea tifid with mos tly slender tapering lobes ; 
hea 1 Gower: dietnathy. soxditig before anthesis, nodding or erect near maturity, ovoid or 
broadly fusiform, the principal phyllaries 5-18, equal, glabrous externally, black-villous on the 
re 
: ewer, 5—1 . lo 
: jose c et ge daa to straw-colored or blacki ith i ved o volut argin and 
conspicuou mostly Te rous or hairy dorsally, gramialy o or abruptly Sout as an nialiy 
long or lone eee geen = 9, 
Grassy flats and hillsides 2h eavy, often hard-packed soil, Sonoran Zones; Jackson County, Oregon, south 
through the interior valleys and foothills - a. California and cis smontane southern California to northern 
San Diego County. Type locality: Californ Collected by ‘Diousias, April-Jun 
icroseris pte, a ae gate, tenélla fe cs Chambers, Contr. Dadiey Herb. . ak ee. Sacer y 
tenel oc pl. 
6: 552. 1865; Microseris teaetia ‘Sch.-Bip. Polli chia 22-24: 308. 1866 M. “aphantocarpha ge h.- Tees vais 
M. Spica eee var. tenella A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 9: 209. 1874: M. indivisa Greene, Pn he 
1893; M. aphantocarpha var. indivisa Jepson, FI. Ww. “Mia. Ca as 495. 1901; M. tenella var. Spbadincersbe Blake 
Journ. Wash. Acad. 25: 325. 1935. a cede Lo sae * nearly globose near maturity, up to 300-flowered, the principal 
phyllaries 5-30; achenes 3.0-6 . long, brown, truncate- rate or she al usually not flared at the apex; 
pappus fragile, 3.5-9.0 mm. lon ‘the exces deltoid about 1 . long or less, often nearly obs ol oe aes Sn 
Open grassy places in heavy soil, “ienctan Zones; - Califo at in the foothills of the Coast Ranges an aes ar 
the coast, Yolo County to Los Angeles County, r n the Pec reel Soccpd fi Type locality: Napa Valley, N s apa 
County, calles This taxon. enterara ades extensively capil brisk douglasii in the Coast Ranges of central 
stal 
douglasii subs latycarpha (A. G hai siises H b. 4:2: 296. 1955. Calais 
sicboeeohe mg Crave Pact RR piatycarpha ( Tay ) Chambers. Contr. ee er 
1866.) Heads ovoid or fusifor Pa 50- flowered, ~ principal phyl s 5-15; ake Gr lon oe, straw- 
colored to brown or blackish, turbinate to columnar, flare: the Cine pappus pein ee Aiea t = lanceo- 
late to circular paleae 2.5-6 long, invol ts at payed omg tipped with a rather short sour awn. 4 = 9. 
Grassy slopes and mesas, Son ft Zon nes; coastal southern California from Los Aaiaes County to northern Lower 
pod cet) and on Santa Catalina and San Clemente I slends. Type locality: San Luis Rey, San o County, 
alif 
1}. Microseris acuminata Greene. Sierra Foothills Microseris. Fig. 5969. 
Vi taG , Bull. Torrey Club 10: 88. 1883 
Strictly acaulescent, puberulent, annual herb, the erect scapes 5-35 cm. tall, curved or decu: 
bent at the base. Leaves basal, 3-20 cm. long, ee pinnatifid, the entire slender lobes pase tel 
from a inear-attenuate rachis; Sha ge 50-flowered, nodding until mature, broadly to narrowly 
fusiform, large in proportion to the plant, bis aor phyllaries 11-19 mm. lon ng in nearly mature 
ruit, black-villous ae pea carinate, the much shorter outer ones unequal, caleeaiie: ferees 
wage achenes 4.5-7.0 m ons uni Srna brown, columnar, fapec 1 at the apex, scabrous, 
the outer fruits never sillecat pappus 9-18 mm. long, persistent, the 5 linear-lanceolate paleae 
3.5-1 0 mm. long, shining or dull, vrei anit rs lightly scabrous or villous dorsally, scarcely 
involute at the margins, tapering evenly above into a barbellulate awn formed as a continuation 
of vet flat midrib. n = 18. 
ats and hog-wa es ows, and on flats or pans on foothill terraces, mostly Pe pper aw Zone; Jackson 
daaate Oregon, south in the Inner Coast Range, Sacramento Valley, and Si pad BE heb wg foothills to Fresno 
County, California. Type locality: Elmira, Solano County, California. qe 
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