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inches long, the blades bipinnatifid, the segments filiform, rather crowded, pun- 

 gent ; bracts not dilated at base, or sometimes with an oblong dilation, spinosely 

 pinnatifid or bipinnatifid above, glandular-puberulent, and often tomentose about 

 the middle; flowers 5-merous; calyx nearly equaling corolla- tube, its tube mem- 

 branous, puberulent outside, markedly villous-pubesceut at throat, its teeth green- 

 herbaceous, the long teeth pinnatifid and about as long or IV2 times as long as the 

 calyx-tube, the 2 or 3 short teeth entire ; corolla pale yellow or buckskm color, usu- 

 ally with 5 brownish quadratish spots in the throat, 4 to 6 lines long; stamens un- 

 equally inserted on the middle of corolla-throat, the anthers exserted from the 

 throat ; style 2-clef t ; capsule 1-celled or sometimes imperfectly 2-celled, 4-valved 

 above the translucent base, 4 to 8-seeded. 



Low places on valley floors, 100 to 1200 feet : Great Valley and its lowest border- 

 ing foothills; South Coast Ranges in San Benito and San Luis Obispo Cos. May. 



Locs. — Great Valley and its low borderingj foothills: Dry Creek, sw. of Pentz, Butte Co., 

 Heller 11,402; Willows, Glenn Co., Jepson 20,955; Antioch; Athlone, Merced Co., Hoover 604; 

 Merced, Congdon; Porterville, Tulare Co., T. Brandegre; Long Tom Mines, Greenhorn Mts., Char- 

 lotte N. Smith. South Coast Ranges: San Miguel, Norton: Paso Robles, Cobb 6; Goodwin, e. 

 San Luis Obispo Co. This species flowers later than Navarretia cotulaef olia when growing with it. 



Eefs. — Navarretia nigellaeformis Greene, Pitt. 1:132 (1887), type loc. Visalia, T. J. Pat- 

 terson; Jepson, Man. 789 (1925). N. oceUata Eastw., Zoe 5:88 (1900), type loc. Goodwin, San 

 Luis Obispo Co., Jared (typ. vidi). N. nigellaeformis var. radians J. T. Howell, Lflts. W. Bot. 

 2:136 (1938), type loc. Paicines (12 mi. s.), San Benito Co., J. T. Howell 12,962; ovary 2-eelIed. 



8. N. cotulaefolia H. & A. Stem erect, corymbosely branching from above 

 base, 2 to 6 (or 13) inches high ; hex-bage finely puberulent and minutely glandular ; 

 leaves % to 3 inches long, bipinnatifid, the segments linear, soft, barely cuspidate; 

 bracts and calyx glandular-villous, glabrous or subglabrous at the base ; flowers 

 commonly 4-merous ; calyx about % as long as corolla, its lobes varj'ing from nearly 

 equal and entire to unequal, with the longer variously toothed; corolla creamy or 

 dull white, 3^2 to 5 lines long, somewhat exceeding the calyx; stamens equally in- 

 serted about middle of corolla-throat; style 2-cleft; capsule 1-celled, 4-valved, de- 

 hiscing from the base, 1-seeded ; embryo with entire cotyledons. 



Depressions in valley floors, 15 to 1500 feet : Coast Ranges (back of the coast 

 line) from San Benito Co. to Sonoma and Lake Cos. ; Sacramento Valley. May. 



Loes. — Coast Eanges: HoUister, A. H. Kemp; Balsa, east of Giiroy, Jepson 15,002 ; Newark, 

 Alameda Co., Davy 1100; Kirker Pass (n. of), Contra Costa Co., Brewer 1110; Wilfred sta., 

 Cotati "Valley, Sonoma Co., Jepson 9307; Pope Valley, Ewan 8857; Lakeport, If. S. Bal-er ; Bear 

 Valley, sw. of Leesville, w. Colusa Co., Jepson 8965. Sacramento Valley: Vacaville, Jepson 15,000 ; 

 Sutter, Sutter Co., Ewan 9627; Willows, Glenn Co., Jepson 15,003. 



Eefs.— Navarretia cotulaefolia H. & A., Bot. Beech. 368 (1840) ; Jepson, Man. 789 (1925). 

 Aegochloa cotulaefolia Benth., Bot. Eeg. sub t. 1622 (1833), type from Cal., Douglas. Gilia cotu- 

 laefolia Steud., Norn. Bot. ed. 2, 1:683 (1840) ; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 427 (1901), ed. 2, 

 332 (1911). 



9. N. bowmanae Eastw. Stem erect, simple or branched, 3 to 12 inches high ; 

 herbage minutely but densel}^ whitish-puberulent ; leaves 1/4 to 1% inches long, the 

 blades bipinnately divided with filiform divisions ; heads dense, white-woolly; bracts 

 finely bipinnatifid, the more or less dilated base densely white- woolly, often puberu- 

 lent to the tips of the acerose teeth, 1/3 to 1% inches long, surpassing the heads ; 

 flowers 4 or 5-merous; calyx % to nearly as long as corolla, its lobes unequal, 

 acerose-tipped, the longer often pinnately toothed ; corolla 3I/2 to 5 lines long, blue 

 (with white throat) or white, a dark purple spot in throat below each lobe; stamens 

 unequally inserted about middle of corolla-throat; style more or less 2-cleft; capsule 

 1-celled, 4-valved, 1-seeded. 



Low dry gravelly hills and valley flats, 15 to 1500 feet : North Coast Ranges from 

 Lake Co. to Solano Co. ; Great Valley from Shasta Co. to Stanislaus Co. ; Sierra 

 Nevada foothills from Eldorado Co. to Tuolumne Co. May-June. 



Field note. — At intervals for three or four decades botanists have been collecting in the S.i<;- 

 ramcnto Valley and northern Sierra Nevada foothills a Navarretia which has been referred with 



