SUNFLOWER FAMILY 563 
A goserts | issima Greene, Leaflets Bot. Obs. 2: 122. 1911. 
Apos seris isomeris Greene, op. cit. 123. 
Agoseris potent Greene, op. cit. 125. 
Slender perennials, glabrate, mostly 20-45 cm. tall, from a long heavy taproot. Leaves numer 
ous, hess: Slane eolate to narrowly oblanc a pa sme nate, entire or rarely somewhat denticulate, 
glaucous and pe brous or sparsely te n the mar gins and midrib below, ascending an 
falcate to ext begar uch s sect than t : ze several scapes ; scapes slender, glabrous ; heads 
usually narrowly campan HAddec florets yellow, in fruit 21-22 mm, high, 15-20(-25) mm. wide; 
mi pe aceite tapering gradually from the base, frequently purple-spotted, glabrous, the 
— series Sipe ore shorter ; ligules mostly 12-15 mm. long; anther-tubes 3.5-5.2 (m ostly 
4.0-4.8 mm: ong; achenes mostly 6-7 mm. long, the beak 1.5-6.0 mm. long; pappus commonly 
10-12 mm. 
ae wt sesh mountain meadows, Arid Transition Zone; east of the Cascade Mountains in Washington 
and regon, in northeastern California, ana eastward beyond our range. Type locality: ‘‘On the banks of the 
Missouri.” mp oer 
Agos glauca var. dasycéphala (Torr. & Gray) Ae ge Man. Fl. Pl. Calif. 1005. 1925. (Ammogeton 
scorgoneracfolis Schrad. Ind. Sem. Hort. Gotting. 1 Troximon ae B dasyce ported Torr. & Gray, 
Fl. N. Amer. 843; Macrorhynchus Fag var. dasycephalns a: Coat Bot. ng Expl. 205. 1871; 
Agoseris scorz <dsleradbbite Greene, Pittonia 177 TBST s leontodon aspera RY b. wee NY. Bot. d. 
1: 457. 1900; A. villosa Rydb. op. cit. 458, Troximon O ieian asperum Piper, Mazama 2:96, 1901; Agoseris 
hip auca scorzoncracfol ta "pipe: Contr. U.S. Nat. Heh: 11: 542. 1906; A. glauca aspera Piper, loc. cit.; Troxi 
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Mts. 1030. A. scorzoneracfolia aspera Blake, Con U.S. Nat. Herb. 25: 630, 1925; A. glauca var. 
sree Wiitr Pabl. Puget Sound Bio + 253, 928: nA. glauca var. aspera Cronquist, Leaflets West. Bot, 
us 1950.) Mostly 10- 20 em. tall; eave narrowly oblanceolate to ovaté or spatulate, tips atid f obtuse, 
od entire, ana i sol eakly laciniate ee low, rarely glabrous, usually evenly short-pubescent to occasionally 
ada ame cr iger ordiie puberulen becoming villous beneath the head; head broadly campanulate to 
hem spheri c, about as Sheed as long in feuc nhyllaries in 3 or pe! a yd a series, villous and ciliate with 
eranaiccent and Aa mag 3 glandular cen Pan mostly 15 mm. long; anther-tubes 4.5— mm. long 
achenes coe pada — long; beak 1-3 mm. long; pappus most a 14- 13 1 mm ong. Near and shoo timberline if 
the Olym A Cas e Mountains a Washington tee in the Rocky Mountains from Colorado into Alberta 
and British Cone “Tyee eso ef “Saskatchewan and prairies of the Rocky Mountains to the Aretie Coast.”’ 
Collected by Richardson. July—S 
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5971. Microseris bigelovii 
5972. Microseris elegans 
5973. Agoseris glauca 
5974. Agoseris elata 
