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below, glandular-dotted above. Basal leaves 1-6.5 cm. long, in rosette, pinnately or bipinnately 

 lobed, the lobes linear, equal in breadth to the rachis (0.8-2 mm.), lightly to densely woolly or 

 glabrous ; cauline leaves shorter, pinnately lobed, the rachis and lobes narrowly linear, lobes 

 longer than the width of the rachis ; inflorescence paniculately branched, the main branches 

 virgate ; flowers single, terminating the branchlets or lateral on short pedicels ; pedicels glandu- 

 lar-dotted ; calyx 2.7-5.4 mm. long, lobes glandular-dotted or glabrous, often purple-tinged at 

 tips, joined in lower one-half to three-fourths by sinus-membrane; corolla funnelform, 

 4.5-9.8 mm. long, tube 1.5-3.6 mm., blue-violet or yellow, throat 1.1-1.8 mm., yellow, lobes 

 1.3-1.8 mm., light violet; stamens inserted in sinuses of corolla-lobes, 0.8-1.7 mm. long, ex- 

 ceeded by corolla-lobes; style shorter than corolla; stigma 0.5-1.5 mm. long; capsule ovoid, 

 3.5-7.2 mm. long, 3-celled, containing several, light brown, nearly smooth to irregularly rugose 

 seeds in each cell. 



Sonoran and Transition Zones; eastern Washington south through eastern Oregon and along eastern side of 

 Sierra Nevada in California and Nevada; Mojave Desert, California, south to Lower California, east to Wyo- 

 ming, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico. Type locality : Darwin Mesa, California. April-June. 



Gilia ochroleuca subsp. transmontana Mason & Grant, Madrotio 9: 215. 1948. Leaf-lobes 1-2 mm. wide, 

 main branches of inflorescence virgate, the inflorescence narrow. Eastern Washington and Oregon southeast of the 

 Sierra Nevada to the mountains of southern California and northern Lower California. Type locality: Beaver 

 Dam River, Mohave County, Arizona. 



13. Gilia Abramsii (Brand) Mason & Grant. Abrams' Gilia. Fig. 4023. 



Cilia arenaria var. Abramsii Brand, Ann. Conserv. & Jard. Bot. Geneve 15-16: 330. 1913. 

 Gilia Abramsii Mason & Grant, Madrono 9: 216. 1948. 



Erect annual, 12-38 cm. tall ; stems several from base, abundantly slender-branched, glabrous 

 or woolly-pubescent below, glandular above and on pedicels. Basal leaves numerous, entire, 

 simple-pinnate or bipinnate, 2-7 cm. long, with few to numerous minutely cuspidate, linear lobes, 

 2-17 mm. long, glabrous or lightly woolly-pubescent; cauline leaves shorter and reduced, entire, 

 simple-pinnate or bipinnate below or palmately parted with 3 to several lobes ; inflorescence 

 divaricately much-branched with 1-flowered filiform pedicels, 0.5-1.5 cm. long; calyx 2-3 mm. 

 long, lobes glabrous or glandular-dotted, joined in lower two-thirds by sinus-membrane; corolla 

 funnelform, pale blue-violet to pale pink or yellowish, 9.5-12 mm. long, 4-5 times calyx; tube 

 2.5-4.5 mm., throat 2.5-4.5 mm., broadly and abruptly expanded, lobes 2.5-3.5 mm. long; 

 stamens inserted in sinuses of corolla-lobes, 1-1.5 mm. long; style well-exserted from throat, 

 9-10 mm. long; stigma 1.5 mm. long; capsule plump, ovoid, 3-4 mm. long; seeds brown and 

 irregularly rugose, several in each cell. 



Transition Zone; mountains of Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties, and the San Gabriel and San Jacinto 

 Mountains, California, south to northern Lower California. Type locality: Tia Juana River, Tia Juana, Lower 

 California. March-May. 



Gilia Abramsii subsp. integrifolia Mason & Grant, Madrono 9: 216. 1948. Basal leaves mostly simple and 

 entire, linear, occasionally a few with 1 or 2 linear lobes. Known only from the type locality: Temecula Canyon, 

 Riverside County, California. 



14. Gilia tenuiflora Benth. Slender-flowered Gilia. Fig. 4024. 



Gilia tenuiflora Benth. Bot. Reg. 19: under pi. 1622. 1833. 



Gilia arenaria Benth. loc. cit. 



Gilia tenuiflora subsp. eu-tenniflora Brand, Pflanzenreich 42-^>'': 102. 1907. 



Gilia tenuiflora subsp. eu-tenniflora var. genuina Brand, loc. cit. 



Gilia arenaria subsp. leptantha var. eu-arenaria Brand, op. cit. 103. 



Gilia arenaria subsp. leptantha var. Aliciae Brand, loc. cit. 



Gilia Hoffmannii Eastw. Leaflets West. Bot. 2: 283. 1940. 



Gilia tenuiflora var. arenaria Jepson, Fl. Calif. 3: 178. 1943. 



Erect annual, 0.5-5 dm. tall, stems glabrous or sparsely woolly-pubescent below, glandular- 

 dotted above, branched from base or above, sometimes simple except in the inflorescence. Basal 

 leaves 3-9 cm. long, in rosette, glabrous or sparsely woolly, simple-pinnate or occasionally bi- 

 pinnate with narrow rachis and narrowly linear lobes, or sometimes the lobes reduced to teeth ; 

 upper leaves shorter, simple-pinnate with narrowly linear lobes, or the uppermost entire ; in- 

 florescence paniculate, loose to subglomerate ; flowers borne singly at tips of glandular-dotted 

 pedicels; calyx 2.5-6 mm. long, glandular-dotted or sparsely woolly to glabrate, cleft to base, 

 the purplish or dark green lobes contrasting sharply with the light-colored sinus-membrane which 

 joins them in the lower one-half to three-fourths; corolla funnelform, 9-28 mm. long, 3-6 times 

 the calyx, tube 4.5-14 mm. long, 1-2.5 times throat, throat 2-8 mm., lobes 3.5-8.5 mm., nar- 

 rowly to broadly ovate, tube and lower throat dark purple, often dorsally striated with yellow, 

 upper throat yellow, lobes light violet or with yellow striation dorsally; stamens inserted in 

 sinuses of corolla-lobes, subequal to unequal, 1-4 mm. long, exceeded by corolla-lobes ; style in- 

 cluded or exserted, stigma 0.5-2 mm. long; capsule ovoid, 3-5 mm. long, containing numerous, 

 dark brown, irregularly angled seeds in each cell. 



Sandy flats and gravelly hillsides, Upper Sonoran Zone; Outer and Central Coast Ranges from Santa Cruz 

 and San Benito Counties south to Santa Barbara County, California. Type locality: California. Collected by 

 Douglas. April-May. 



Gilia tenuiflora subsp. interior Mason & Grant, Madrono 9: 217. 1948. Corolla 6-14 mm. long, 2-4 times 

 calyx, tube 3-5 mm. long, purple, throat yellow with 5 purple spots subtending the light violet lobes; stems erect or 

 much-branched and spreading from the base, barely exceeding the basal rosette; leaves lightly to moderately woolly- 

 pubescent. Inner Coast Ranges from the Mount Hamilton Range in Stanislaus County^ California, to Santa Bar- 

 bara County; southern San Joaquin Valley, and mountains of Kern County; western Mojave Desert. Type locality: 

 Walker Pass, Kern County, California. 



