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Eefs. — Navarretia prostrata Greene, Pitt. 1:130 (1887) ; Jepson, Man. 788 (1925). Gilia 

 prostrata Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 17 :223 (1882), type loe. near Los Angeles, J. C. Nevin; Jepson, 

 Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 427 (1901), ed. 2, 332 (1911). 



4. N. intertexta Hook. (Fig. 375.) Stem erect and usually simple, or branch- 

 ing from the base, and usually diffuse, 2 to 7 inches high ; herbage white-puberulent 

 but not glandular; leaves 4 to 12 lines long, bipinnatifid, the narrowly linear or 

 filiform segments spinescent-tipped; bracts pinnatifid, strongly dilated at base, 

 the slender or filiform rigid spinose divisions extended beyond body of the head 

 body of bracts and exterior of calyx-tube densely ■wliite-villous or wooUy-tomentose 

 calyx-lobes with a tuft of hairs on the base inside, otherwise glabrous or nearly 

 calyx % as long as corolla ; corolla white or pale lavender, sleuder-funnelform, 41/2 

 lines long; anthers yellow; style 2-cleft; stamens and style exserted from corolla- 

 throat; capsule 4 to 12-seeded; seeds shallowly favose. 



]\Iargins of hog wallows or low wet spots in valleys and hills, or gravelly plains, 

 or in opens in forest, 50 to 6000 feet. : Cuyamaea Mts., San Diego Co. ; North Coast 

 Ranges from Sonoma and Napa Cos. to western Siskiyou Co.; Great Valley from 

 Stanislaus Co. to Shasta Co. ; northern Sierra Nevada foothills from Mariposa Co. 

 to Shasta Co. ; east and north sides of the northern Sierra Nevada from eastern 

 Sierra Co. to eastern Siskiyou Co. North to Washington and Montana. Maj^-July. 



Locs. — Cuyamaea Mts.: near Cuyamaea Peak, T. Brandegee ; Stonewall Mine, Parish 4464. 

 North Coast Ranges: Kenwood, Sonoma Co., Bioletti; York Creek, St. Helena, Jepson 2351; 

 Calistoga, Jepson 15,007; Healdsbiirg, Alice King; Cobb Mt., sw. Lake Co., Jepson 15,012; Bart- 

 lett Sprs., n. Lake Co., Jepson 18,940; Potter Valley, Mendocino Co., Nettie Purpus ; Bound Val- 

 ley, ne. Mendocino Co., Tracy 15,766; Miranda, South Fork Eel River, Jepson 12,367; Dyerville, 

 Constance 697; Carlotta, Humboldt Co., M. S. Baker 26; Green Point ranch, near Redwood Creek, 

 n. Humboldt Co., Jepson 1943; Martin ranch, South Fork Trinity River, Jepson 2019; Sisson, 

 Siskiyou Co., Jepson 15,008; Ore Fino, Siskiyou Co., Butler 157. Great Valley: Montpelier, 

 Stanislaus Co., Hoover 586; Stockton, Sanford 58; Rio Linda, n. Sacramento Co., Hoover 2210; 

 Roseville, Placer Co., B. E. Arp ; Sutter, Sutter Co., Ewan 9623 ; Chico, Palmer; Redding, Blanhin- 

 sliip. Northern Sierra Nevada foothills: Ruth Pierce Mine, Mariposa Co., Jepson 10,701 ; Chinese 

 Camp, Tuolumne Co., Jepson 6328; Duffield Cafion, Soulsbyville, Jepson 7682; Salt Springs Val- 

 ley, Calaveras Co., Tracy 5650; Burson, Calaveras Co., Jepson 9948; Valley Springs, Calaveras 

 Co., Jepson 9909; San Andreas, Jepson 9946; Foster sta., Amador Co., E. Brandegee ; Sweetwater 

 Creek, Eldorado Co., E. Brandegee; Auburn, Slwckley; Pentz, Butte Co., Heller 10,759; Big Bear 

 Flat, se. Siskiyou Co., Jepson 20,102 ; Shasta Retreat, Siskiyou Co., Gondii. East and north sides 

 Sierra Nevada: Sierra Valley, Lemmon 299 ; Dog Valley, e. Sierra Co., Jepson 15,014; Mt. Shasta 

 (n. side), H. E. Brown. 



Var. propinqua Brand. Plants smaller, % to 3 (or 5) inches high, in aspect like N. breweri; 

 at least some of the leaves and bracts bipinnatifid ; bracts and calyces wliite-tomentulose to sub- 

 glabrous; divisions of bracts slender-subulate or aristiform, as if set in somewhat regular parallel 

 ranks ; calyx about as long as the corolla ; capsule about 2 to 5-seeded.- — Wet meadows or margins 

 of ponds, 3500 to 6700 feet: Eldorado Co. to Modoc Co.; inner North Coast Range from northern 

 Lake Co. to western Siskiyou Co. North to Washington. June-Aug. 



Locs. — Northern Sierra Nevada : Meyers sta., Eldorado Co., Ottley 936 ; Bear Valley, Nevada 

 Co., Jepson 15,011 ; Dog Valley, e. Sierra Co., Jepson 15,010 ; Sierra Valley, Lemmon ; Ferris Creek, 

 branch of Last Chance Creek, e. Plumas Co., Jepson 19,390 ; Mineral, e. Tehama Co., Jepson 

 12,340; Battle Creek Mdws., e. Tehama Co., J. Grinnell; South Fork Peak, n. Lassen Co., Jepson 

 7815; Fort Bidwell, Manning 48. Inner North Coast Range: Elk Mt., n. Lake Co., Tracy 2281 

 Soldier Ridge, se. Trinity Co., Jepson 15,009 ; Yreka, Butler 998. 



Refs. — Navarretia intertexta Hook., Fl. Bor. Am. 2:75 (1838); Jepson, Man. 788, fig. 

 768 (1925). Aegochloa intertexta Benth., Bot. Reg. sub t. 1622 (1833), "California and north- 

 west America," Douglas. Gilia intertexta Steud., Nom. Bot. ed. 2, 1:683 (1840) ; Jepson, Fl. W, 

 Mid. Cal. 427 (1901), ed. 2, 332 (1911). Var. propinqua Brand; Engler, Pflzr. 4==<>:163 (1907) 

 N. propinqua Suksd., Allg. Bot. Zeitschr. 12:26 (1906), type loc. Spokane Co., Wash., Suksdorf. 



5. N. tagetina Greene. Stem erect, simple or corymbosely branching, 3 to 12 

 inches high, the heads solitary and termiufJ or sometimes congested ; herbage puber- 

 ulent; leaves 4 to 15 lines long, bipinnatifid into short subulate or filiform segments ; 

 bracts bipinnatifid into rigid acicular or spiny divisions crowning the much-dilated 

 and mostly entire basal portion of the rachis ; bracts and calyces finel.y pubescent, 

 sometimes tomentulose (especially on the body of the bracts) ; calj'x-segments (or 



