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4 2 mm long, enlarging with and equal (in length) to the maturing capsule, the lobes stipitate- 

 giandular and joined in lower two-thirds by sinus-membrane; corolla funnelform, 6 3-10.4 mm. 

 Ion"- pale blue or lavender to white, the throat bearing a ring of purple spots, tube 2.3-3.2 mm. 

 long included in calyx, throat 1.8-3.4 mm., lobes 2.2-3.7 mm.; stamens inserted m smuses of 

 coroila-lobes, subequal, shorter than corolla-lobes, the filaments 0.7-1.7 mm. long, anthers 

 5-1 mm long • style shorter than corolla, included in or exserted from throat ; stigma 1-1.5 mm. 

 long; capsule broadly ovoid, 5-7 mm. long, 3-celled with numerous brown, pitted, irregularly- 

 angled seeds in each cell. 



Desert slopes, Upper Sonoran Zone; Death Valley, Mojave and Colorado Deserts in California, east and 

 south through southern Nevada and southern Utah to Arizona, northwestern Mexico, and Lower California, lype 

 locality: near Randsburg, Kern County, California. April-May. 



20. Gilia scopulorum M. E. Jones. Rock Gilia. Fig. 4030. 



Gilia scopulorum M. E. Jones, Bull. Torrey Club 8: 70. 1881. 



Cilia scopulorum var. typica Brand, Pflanzenreich 4^^: 109. 1907. 



Gilia scopulorum var. Covillei Brand, loc.cit. 



Erect annual, 1-3 dm. tall ; stems stout, paniculately branched from near base and above ; 

 pubescent with translucent hairs (as on leaves) below and stipitate-glandular above. Lower 

 leaves 3-9 cm. long, broad but deeply and irregularly cleft, simple-pinnate to bipinnate, primary 

 lobes 5-12 mm. long, the ultimate lobes usually margined with cuspidate teeth, coarsely pubescent 

 with straight, translucent hairs ; upper leaves reduced in size and somewhat simpler, becoming 

 bract-like above, but even the uppermost 3-toothed, not entire; inflorescence paniculate, the 

 flowers solitary at ends of stipitate-glandular pedicels; calyx stipitate-glandular 3-4.3 mm. long, 

 enlarging with the maturing capsule, cleft to base, the lobes joined in lower one-half to three- 

 fourths by sinus-membrane; corolla funnelform, 10-14.5 mm. long, lobes pink to violet or white, 

 tube and 'throat paler or yellowish, tube 6-8.5 mm. long, throat 2.5-4 mm., lobes 1.4-3.4 mm.; 

 stamens inserted in sinuses of corolla lobes, equal or subequal, exceeded in length by corolla- 

 lobes, filaments 0.7-0.9 mm. long, anthers 0.5-0.7 mm. ; style subequal to or shorter than corolla, 

 stigma 0.5-2 mm. long; capsule broadly ovoid, 4.5-5.5 mm. long, 3-celled with numerous, 

 irregularly angled brown seeds in each cell. 



Desert washes. Lower Sonoran Zone; Death Valley, eastern Mojave Desert, and Colorado Desert in Cali- 

 fornia, east to Utah and Arizona. Type locality: "in the shade of the lava rocks at St. George, Utah. April- 

 May. 



2L Gilia leptomeria A. Gray. Great Basin Gilia. Fig. 4031. 



Gilia leptomeria A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 8: 278. 1870. 



Gilia Triodon Eastw. Zoe 4: 121. 1893. 



Gilia leptomeria var. tridentata M. E. Jones, Proc. Calif. Acad. II. S: 713. 1895. 



Aliciella Triodon Brand, Helios 22: 77. 1905. 



Aliciella Triodon var. humillima Brand, Pflanzenreich ^^•. 150. 1907. 



Gilia leptomeria var. myriacautha M. E. Jones, Contr. West. Bot. No. 12: 53. 1908. 



Giha iiicanspicua var. dentiflora Davidson, Bull. S. Calif. Acad. 25: 84. 1926. 



Erect annual, 4-33 cm. tall ; stems 1 to several from base, much-branched in the inflorescence, 

 puberulent or glandular-puberulent below, glandular-puberulent above. Basal leaves in rosette, 

 numerous, 1-9.5 cm. long, 2-18 mm. wide, broadly strap-shaped, linear to oblanceolate, sinuately 

 toothed or shallow-lobed, each tooth or lobe bearing a sharp cusp ; cauline leaves 2-20 mm. long, 

 linear to narrowly ovate, entire or pinnately toothed ; flowers borne terminally or on short 

 lateral pedicels; calyx 2.3 mm. long, cleft to base, the lobes glandular-puberulent, joined in 

 lower two-thirds by'a sinus-membrane, in fruit one-half to as long as capsule; corolla narrow- 

 funnelform, 3-6.5 mm. long, tube 1.5-3.5 mm., throat 0.5-2 mm., lobes 1-1.5 mm., acute or, 

 3-toothed, usually colored with a diffused purple streak from throat to tip of each lobe ; stamens 

 inserted in sinuses of corolla-lobes, almost sessile to 1 mm. long, shorter than corolla-lobes ; style 

 included ; stigma 0.5 mm. or less ; capsule oblong to ovoid, 3-5 mm. long ; seeds many in each cell. 



Transition Zone; eastern Washington and Oregon to Mono and Inyo Counties in California, east into Idaho, 

 Utah, and Colorado, Nevada, and Arizona. Type locality: mountain valleys of Nevada and Utah. April-June. 



Gilia leptomeria subsp. micromeria (A. Gray) Mason & Grant, Madroiio 9: 214. 1948. {Gilia micromeria 

 A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 8:279. 1870.) Pedicels more slender than the species and often reflexed; corolla 

 minute and the lobes entire or sometimes 3-toothed. Eastern Oregon eastward to the Rocky Mountains. Type 

 locality: "Mountain valleys of Nevada and Utah." Collected by Watson. 



Gilia leptomeria subsp. rubella (Brand) Mason & Grant, loc. cit. (Gilia arenaria subsp. leptantha var. 

 rubella Brand, Pflanzenreich 4=^: 103. 1907; Gilia Hutchinsifolia Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 40: 472. 1913.) Basal 

 leaves more deeply cut than is usual in the species, and often bipinnate, the secondary lobes short and rounded; 

 cauline leaves linear, the lower sometimes toothed, the upper long, narrow, and entire; corolla 7-12.7 mm. long, 

 tub- 3.7-7 mm. long, pale violet or white, throat 1,3-3 mm. long, yellow or with a ring of violet spots, lobes 

 2-5 mm. long, violet or white. Red Rock Canyon, Kern County, California, Inyo County to southern Nevada, 

 Utah, and northeastern Arizona. Type locality: St. George, Utah. 



22. Gilia leptalea Greene. Bridges' Gilia. Fig. 4032. 



Collomia leptalea A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 8: 261. 1870. 

 Gilia leptalea Greene, Erythea 4: 58. 1896. 



Gilia leptalea subsp. eu-leptalca Brand, Pflanzenreich 4=5": 97. 1907. 

 Gilia lineata Davidson, Bull. S. Calif. Acad. 22: 71. 1923. 



Erect annual, 3-40 cm. high ; stems paniculately branched, glabrous to puberulent and viscid 

 glandular. Leaves linear to lanceolate, entire to pinnately dissected or laciniately lobed, 1-4 cm. 

 long, the upper much-reduced and bracteate ; inflorescence an open panicle with flowers on 



