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3. LEPTOSIPHON, Endl., Benth. Corolla salverform, with the tube mostly 

 filiform and elongated ; the very short throat commonly abruptly more or less 

 cyathiform-dilated : stamens inserted in the throat or orifice : anthers short : 

 ovules numerous : annuals, mostly low or slender, with opposite narrow leaves, 

 and handsome but commonly small flowers crowded into a capitate leai'y-bracted 

 cluster. (Style either very long and more or less exserted, or rather rarely short 

 and included, in different individuals of the same species.) - - Leptosiphon, Benth. 



* Palmately-leaved genuine species, hairy, leafy-stemmed; commonly with leaves fascicled in the 

 axils and all 5-7 -parted; their divisions linear-filiform: filaments slender, exserted more or less 

 from the throat of the corolla, shorter than its entire lobes : ovules 6 to 10 in each cell. 



t Large-flowered, and the tube of the corolla only equalling or little exceeding the obovate lobes. 

 G. densi.fi.6ra, Benth. Rather stout and large, often strict : numerous divisions of the 

 leaves filiform, somewhat rigid : tube of the lilac or nearly white corolla (half inch long) 

 little if at all exserted beyond the calyx, and villous-hirsute bracts. Gray, Proc. 1. c. 

 Leptosiphon densiflorus, Benth. in Hort. Trans, viii. t. 18; Lindl. Bot. Keg. t. 172-5; Hook. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 3578. Gilia Leptosiphon, Steud. Nom. Varies with corolla-tube a little more 

 exserted, when it is G. yrandiflora, Steud. & Benth. 1. c. and Leptosiphon. ynuidijiorus, Benth. 

 in Bot. Reg. California; common towards the coast. 



t -t Slender-flowered; the filiform tube of the corolla 2 to G times the length of the lobes; these 

 from 4 to less than 2 lines long, oval or ovate. Species difficult to deline. 



G. brevicula, Gray. A span high, corymbosely branched, minutely pubescent and 

 above glandular : leaves few and short (quarter of an inch long) : tube of the corolla only 

 5 to 9 lines long, but much exceeding the calyx and bracts, hardly twice the length of 

 the (purple or violet) lobes : otherwise much like the next. Proc. Am. Acad. xii. 79. 

 Southeastern California, on the Mohave River, Palmer. 



G. androsacea, Steud. A span to a foot high : corolla much exserted beyond the 

 hirsute or villous-ciliate bracts and subtending leaves, lilac, pink, or nearly white with yel- 

 low or dark throat ; its tube an inch or less long, thrice the length of the lobes (limb 8 to 

 10 lines in diameter). Gray, 1. c. & Bot. Calif, i. 401. Leptosiphon androsaceus, Benth. in 

 Hort. Trans, viii. t. 18; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3491; Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1710. California ; 

 common west of the Sierra Nevada. 



Var. rosacea, Gray. A dwarf and tufted form, with rose-red corolla, varying 

 however into other hues. Bot. Calif. 1. c. Leptosiphon parvijioms, var. rosaceus, Hook, 

 f. Bot. Mag. t. 58G3. Near San Francisco, Kelfajy. 



Var. detonsa, Gray, 1. c. Slender and almost glabrous form, the bracts and leaves 

 merely hispidulous-ciliate. Western part of California, Bridi/es, Bracer. A less marked 

 form occurs on the borders of Nevada, Anderson. 



G. micrantha, Steud. Slender, a span or so high : tube of the corolla extremely 

 slender, three-fourths to inch and a half long, 4 to 6 times longer than the lobes ; these 2 or 

 3 lines long: pubescence of the bracts, &c., short and soft, rarely hirsute-ciliate. Gray, 

 Proc. 1. c. excl. syn. var. rosaceus, Bot. Mag. Leptosiphon parr/ floras & L. Intuit, Benth. in 

 Bot. Keg. Gilia micrantha & G. lutea, Benth. in DC. 1. c. California; common through 

 the western part of the State. Flower from purplish or lilac to cream-color, sulphur-yel- 

 low, and even golden yellow (var. aurea, Benth. PI. Hartw.). 



Var. longituba (G. lonyituba, Benth. PI. Hartw. 324) is one of the larger-flowered 

 forms, apparently passing into G. androsacea. Monterey, Harticcn, &c. 



G. tenella, Benth. Mostly depressed, small : tube of the corolla less slender in propor- 

 tion to the size of the limb (6 to 9 lines long, the lobes only 14-) : bracts and leaves hispidu- 

 lous-ciliate. PI. Hartw. 325. Leptosiphon hicolor, Nntt. PI. Gamb., chiefly. Puget Sound 

 to Santa Barbara, California. Has been confounded with the two foregoing. Corolla dull 

 purple, or pink, with yellow throat. 



G. ciliata, Benth. Rigid, rough, 4 to 12 inches high, the taller stems virgate : tube of 

 the corolla slightly or not at all exserted beyond the very hirsute or hispid-ciliate bracts 

 and subtending leaves (6 to 9 lines, and the lobes only li lines long) : calyx-lobes acerose. 

 PI- Hartw. 1. c. ; Gray, 1. c. California, reaching into Nevada, &c. Greyish with short 

 pubescence on the stems, and longer both rigid and softer spreading hairs fringing the 

 leaves and bracts. Corolla rose or violet, fading to white. 



