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25. Linanthus nudatus Greene. Tehachapi Linanthus. Fig. 3950. 



Linanthus nudatus Greene, Erythea 3: 120. 1895. 



Gitia nudata Brand, Pflanzenreich 42=": 138. 1907. 



Linanthus breviculus var. nudatus H. L. Mason in Jepson, Man. Fl. PI. Calif. 806. 1925. 



Linanthus Nashianus Jepson, Fl. Calif. 3: 217. 1943. 



Erect annual, 5-25 cm. high, stems simple or with few divergent branches from above or 

 occasionally several branches from base, internodes short below, those above 3-8 cm. long, those 

 of the branches sometimes up to 12 cm. long. Leaves 5-11 -cleft into linear hispidulous ciliate 

 segments 3-12 mm. long; flowers sessile in compact bracteate heads, bracts densely hirsute- 

 cillate, palmately cleft into 3-9 linear divisions each jointed on the lower half by a conspicuous 

 hyaline membrane ; calyx deeply cleft into linear densely villous ciliate lobes, sinuses over half- 

 filled with a pilose hyaline membrane; corolla salverform, the slender pubescent tube about 2 

 times the calyx, lobes white to lilac, throat yellow, tube dark, throat ample; stamens inserted 

 on lower half of throat, exserted. filaments glabrous, unequal to subequal ; stigma long-exserted. 

 lobes 2-3 mm. long; capsule-locules 1-seeded, seeds rugose. 



Upper Sonoran and Arid Transition Zones; southern Sierra Nevada through the Greenhorn and eastern 

 Teh-ichapi Mountains, California. Type locality: "Probably common in Lake County (apparently an error). 

 May-July. 



26. Linanthus tularensis (Brand) H. L. Mason. Tulare Linanthus. Fig. 395L 



Cilia tularensis Brand, Pflanzenreich 4=5°: 136. 1907. 

 Linanthus tularensis H. L. Mason, Madrono 9: 253. 1948. 



Erect annual 1-15 cm. high, stems slender, cymosely branched, puberulent. Leaves 3-S-cleft 

 into linear oblanceolate lobes 6-15 mm. long; cotyledons sessile, somewhat connate at base; 

 flowers sessile in bracteate heads at ends of branches and a few sessile in upper axils ; calyx 

 deeply cleft into linear hispidulous lobes, sinuses over half-filled with a broad hyaline membrane 

 effecting a narrowly campanulate pseudotube which may be distended but not ruptured by the 

 growing capsule; corolla salverform, 8-12 mm. long, w^hite with yellow throat, tube very slender, 

 2-2.5 times the calvx, throat ample, lobes oblong, truncate or emarginate; stamens inserted 

 midwav on throat, 2-4 mm. long, equal to slightly unequal, anthers long-exserted from orifice 

 of throat, filaments glabrous ; stigma exserted ; capsule ellipsoid, seeds solitary m the locules. 



Borders of meadows. Boreal Zones: southern Sierra Nevada in the basin of the upper Kern River, Cali- 

 fornia. Type locality: "Smith meadow. Fish Creek, Tulare County, 2,800 m." July-Aug. 



Lmanthus tularensis subsp. Culbertsonii (Brand) H. L. Mason. (Cilia oblanreolata Brand, Pflanzenreich 

 4250. n6 1907- G ohlanceotata var. Culbertsonii Brand, op. cit. 137; Linanthus oblanceolatus bastw. ex L.. a. 

 Baker 'West Anier. PI. 3: 8. 1904, as nomen nudum.) Similar to species but smaller, stems simple or spreading, 

 inflorescence glandular-puberulent to lanate, corolla pubescent on exterior of throat. Hudsoman Zone, 9,U0U- 

 10,000 feet, southern Sierra Nevada, California. Type locality: Hockett Meadow, Tulare County. 



27. Linanthus ciliatus (Benth.) Greene. Whisker-brush or Bristly-leaved 



Linanthus. Fig. 3952. 



Cilia ciliata Benth. PI. Hartw. 325. 1849. 



Navarretia ciliata Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 2: 433. 1891. 



Linanthus ciliatus Greene, Pittonia 2: 260. 1892. 



Linanthus neglectus Greene, Erythea 3: 24. 1895. 



Leptosiphon ciliatus Jepson, School Fl. 77. 1902. 



Cilia ciliatus var. neglectus Brand, Pflanzenreich 4"^: 137. 1907. 



Linanthus ciliatus var. neglectus Jepson, Man. Fl. PI. Calif. 806. 1925. 



Erect or occasionallv spreading slender annual, stems 1-3 dm. high, simple or branched from 

 the base, herbage puberijlent to hispid-ciliate. Leaves 5-11-cleft into linear coarsely hispid, cihate 

 lobes ; flowers sessile in leafy bracteate heads ; bracts densely hispid-ciliate ; calyx deeply cleft into 

 acerose hispid-ciliate lobes, sinuses about half-filled with a broad conspicuous hyaline membrane 

 forming a verv evident pseudotube; corolla salverform, 12-25 mm. long, pink to rose or white, 

 except for yellow throat which occasionally bears a dark spot below the lobes, lobes obovate, 

 sometimes truncate, 2-4 mm. long; stamens inserted about midway on throat, exserted from 

 its orifice, filaments glabrous; stigma disposed in orifice of throat, lobes about 1 mm. long; 

 capsnle-locules few-seeded. 



ITpper Sonoran Zone to Boreal Zone: southern Oregon through the California (Toast Ranees and SieTra 

 Nevada to southern California, each to Nevada Type locality: sandy places in the Sacramento Valley. Ihe 

 form described as Linanthus neglectus Greene, of doubtful varietal status, is found throughout the range ot the 

 species, April-July. 



28. Linanthus montanus Greene. Mustang Clover. Fig. 3953. 



Linanthus ciliatus var. montanus Greene, Pittonia 2: 260. 1889. 



Linanthus montanus Greene, Erythea 3: 120. 1895. 



Cilia androsacea subsp. montana Brand, Pflanzenreich 4=^": 141. 1907. 



Cilia montana Parish, Plant World 20: 250. 1917. 



Cilia ciliata var. montana Munz, Man. S. Calif. 398. 1935. 



Erect annual, 1-6 dm. high, stems stout, simple or with a few branches from the base, pu- 

 berulent. Leaves 5-11-cleft into linear ciliate lobes 2-3 cm. long; flowers sessile in dense y 

 bracteate heads, bracts palmately cleft into linear coarsely white-ciliate lobes ; calvx deeply 

 cleft into linear coarsely villous-ciliate segments, sinuses about half-filled with a hyaline mem- 

 brane ; corolla funnelform to salverform, long-exserted from calyx, 25-30 mm. long, lilac-pmk 



