« SUNFLOWER FAMILY 565 
frequently ciliolate toward the base, the petioles usually anthocyanous; scapes floccose- cb aes 
becoming densely lanate beneath the head, rarely sparsely so; heads turbinate to cap rowly c 
panulate ; phyllaries in about 3 series, slightly or not at all imbricate, narrow, acuminate, the pene 
series ciliate, glabrous (usually) to villous on pene surface; trichomes Po niga oat white- 
opaque, sometimes translucent; florets bur nome to pinkish, vine light > rk ah ahs 
nein mostly 6-9 mm. long ; cies: tubes 1. a cipiens ong ; achenes mostly lon 
monly hispid dictate. tapering Bradvally. into wie beak 0 umid on one side distally and abruptly 
tapering; beak mostly 6-8(3-11) mm. long; ake. Gee or sordid, 9-14 mm. lon 
cabatenis to “age elevations in cig mountains ge ae North eae tore mostly Boreal gee ee 
Peat iny south to Tulare + Seri Bact nia, and southern Colorado, with disjuncts in Quebec. Type focal iy! 
“Alpine Prairies of the ky Mountains.”’ Co Nec ted by Drummond, Jun = he Only the typical variety, 
described above, occurs in oe range 
4. Agoseris retrérsa (Benth.) hg Spear-leaved Agoseris. Fig. 5976. 
Macrerhanchss ores Benth. ee Hartw. 320. 
Kell. Proc. Calif. segs Y 47. 1873. 
Troximon retrorsum A, "Ope sen Amer. Acad. 9: 216. 1874. 
Agoseris retrorsa Greene, Phionis 2: 278: 
Stout perennials, mostly 2.5-4.5 dm. tall, from a well-developed taproot. Leaves numerou 
1.2-3.5 dm ee pom at uniformly laciniate except for the long-acu igen entire aid the 
lobes more or les rorse, all callous-tipped, usually canescent toward the base; 1-2 n 1S 
stout scapes, g¢ r wi 3 ccose-pu , a t at eae : 
heads uniformly campanulate, 3-6 cm. high in fruit; phyllaries bout 3 series, the outer strik- 
ingly shorter in fruit, the inner about equaling the # floret w, becomi ots ci 
anthesis, Sis partic Ts Li ia ri aie usually 6-10 mm. long; anther-tubes 2.5-4 
dark yellow ; achenes 5-7 mm. lor r less truncate af the apex ; beak smooth, igo pen 
18-21) mm. ican eats 14 i8 ‘ei red 
A cate Radecki upper Sonoran Zone; the Cascade and Blue Mountains of Oregon and Washington, south 
to the Coast Ranges and the Sier rra Nevada, California, to the Angeles Ranges of southern California. Type 
locality : “Tn montibus Sacramento,”’ California. Collect ted by Hartweg. April—July. 
5. Agoseris Brangeine (Nutt.) Greene. Large-flowered Agoseris. Fig. 5977. 
Stylopappus grandifiorus Nutt. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc, IT. 7: 432. 1841. 
Macrorhynchus aan Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Amer. 2: 492. 1843. 
Troximon grenciperans A. Heo Proc. oa Acad. 9: 216. 1874. 
Troximon Green ittonia 1: 174. 1888 
Troximon plebeit i Pesta Ses cit. 2: 79. 1890. 
prnites arandifore Greene, op. cit. 178. 1891, 
e, loc, cit. 
pe essiaa eer = Grower: Eryth 1893. 
Tro } obt ibe sie ce Deutsch. Bot. Monatss. 18: 98. 1900. 
dif be ake dia Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Calif. 500. 1901. 
goseris cinerea Grace ne, beaks s Bot. Obs. 2: cite eee 
Agate sek be = db. Bull. Torrey Club 38: 
r. plebeia Wittr. Publ. ica riae Biol. Sta. 6: 253. 1928. 
Pe Penny hk Bie 2.5-6.0 04 tall, from a multicipital caudex. Leaves polymorphic, ranging 
from linear an panenare to broadly spatulate and laciniate, the lobes irregularly disposed, gla- 
brous to canescent, usually at least pokecoee on the midribs ; scapes coarse, usually paaaincuiasty 
5975. Agoseris aurantiaca 
