570 COMPOSITAE 
laries few, mostly in 1 series, equal, scarious- margined, slightly united at base, subtended 
by several calyculate bractlets, thin and withering in age. Flowers pink, flesh-colored or 
in the morning i 
A western North American genus of about 15 species. Type species, hee minor (Hook.) Nutt. 
Phyllaries 10-15 mm. long; leaves (3 .5— m. long) present on midstems at flowering ti 
Receptacle deeply pitted, cea ae sabe sessile or subsessile on elongated naked branches of ae lc il 
cte, acea. 
Receptacle naked; heads terminating the branchlets, corymbosely or racemosely arranged. 
Leaves thin, entire or saliently toothed. : 7: lactucina. 
Leaves thick and usually callous-margined, runcinately pinnatifid. S. parryi, 
Fugilaries 6-9 feare) y 19). mm es longs, leaves mostly bract-like on midstems at flowering time or ae 
minutely rugulose. 
Pappus-t Ainiged plumose to posik base or nearly so; plants mostly herbaceous at the base, the stems with 
ending branche 4. S. tenutfolia. 
Pappus>ristles sionlttacts hae hens one-fourth - more of their length and long-plumose above; plants 
y below and divaricately hranching abov 
Plan iat bro; 4 5: oe ext 
Plan OF Geuaety't omentulose. . S.cin 
Annuals or biennials; mature fertile achenes more or less tuberculate or rugose between 2 teleteodinal ribs. 
Papp gare ss mnate below in groups of 3 or 4, plumose to pois of attachment or poy 0 hirsutulous 
e loees one-half or one-third; sepa peduneulate (shortly so in robust forms of S. paniculata 
aint a Se . rape S. exigua and S. v ta). 
ps a stout; pedun —1.5 cm. ete nat aiding: clavate, a little onacnlaee. minutely his- 
pi ulous, 7 i 2 grooved between the angles 5 Ore paniculata. 
Stems slender; peduncles 1-4 cm. long; achenes linear, ghsbrowa; angled, and erooves evident. 
exigua, 
Pappus-bristles free to the base and deciduous, ne ronng just above the base leaving a minute crown, 
plumose throughout; heads typically subse: 9. S. virgata. 
1. Stephanomeria cichoriacea A. Gray, sane leaved Stephanomeria. Fig. 5984. 
Stephanomeria cichoriacea A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 6: 552. 18 
Perennial from a long deep taproot and somewhat ae the stems erect, simple or virgately 
branched, 6-15 dm. high, stout, glaucous, glabrous or commonly more or less woolly-pubescent 
especially when young. Basal leaves spreading on the ground, ubeinate: fniAAned, spatulate in 
outline, 8-16 mm. long, narrowed into Sigrenl stem-leaves sessile and clasping or auricled, the 
upper smaller, lanceolate or oblong, entir mmonly irregularly and saliently toothed; heads 
numerous, mostly on short ramets: Dedintcn” along the stems, mostly -flowered ; corolla 
pink, r. arely white ; schene s smooth, striate; pappus sordid, ahaa throughout, 10-12 mm. long. 
Dry washes and slopes, ae Sonoran a d Tra ansition Zones; southern Monterey and San Benito 1 angggone 
and de - Pass south to the souther = open of the San Rernsidinn hagintaina and the Santa Ana Mounta 
S. z Island, California. Tyee locality: Fort Tejon, Tehachapi Mountains. Aug.—Dec. Tejon Milk tae. 
2, ee oe A. Gray. Large-flowered Stephanomeria. Fig. 5985. 
Stephanomeria lactucina A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 6: 552. 1865. 
Pillorie fateh Greene, Pianta e ays: 1 
Dp a! with slender, deep-seated, creeping rootstock, the stems abit singly, preoching 
near the base with the slender branches spreading, or strictly erect with ascending bra 
cm. ‘hi gh, glabrous or ee y puberulent. Leaves linear, 2. cm. 3 ag —-7 mm. ae more 0 
+ ag attenuate at apex, entire or more or less sparingly runcinate-denticulate; heads terminating 
a or escteate slender branches and someyhat co imes somewhat race- 
socal involucres narrowly campanulate, the inner phyllaries linear-at m. 
long, the few outer a 5 mm. long, about twice the length the calyculate bractlets, pale green 
or rose-ting a gt usually 7 or 8, the ligules well exserted, rose-colo or og." -purple ; 
achenes 5-6 mm. long, ribbed, glabrous, light brown pappus-brist tles 9-10 mm. lon abo ut 20, 
white, chnsone ¢ deurticut, slightly broadened and somew vhat nena in Hair oO r 6. 
Sandy flats and open pine forests, Arid Transition and _ n Zones stern slope of the pele Moun- 
tains from southwestern Jackson County and Deschutes Cou mts, Omnia gon, msec aa gh the Cascade Moun- 
tains se Sierra Nevada to Mari sa County, California; Pin os the Siskiyou Mountains i Mount Sanhedrin 
in the North Coast —_ Califor ornia. Type locality: “Dry hill near Big-tree Road in the Sierra Nevada, alt. 
6,000 Pal July—Aug 
a, A scape’ sag parryi A. Gray. Parry’s Stephanomeria. Fig. 5986. 
— parryi A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. sa 61. 1883 
ta par iaierinss Contr. *O. S. Nat. Herb. os 9 
Perea 8 ae glaucous-green and ge tan throughout, the stems rather stout, erect, 15-30 
cm. high, widely branching from near the base, the branches ascending or mor ommon nly di- 
varicately pinta ng. oe linear-lanceolate, rather thick and firm, deeply runcinately_pin- 
natifid, toothed; the margin somewhat calloused, anes or sparsely "pubescent beneath, 2.5-4 
