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the corolla, its lobes 2 to 3 times as long as the ealj-x-tube; corolla very slender- 

 funnelform, veiy pale blue or white, 2^2 to 3 lines long; stamens included iu 

 corolla-tube, the filaments very short (i/i-, to Y^ line long), equally or somewhat 

 unequally inserted below middle of corolla-tube; capsule-cells 6 to 12-seeded. 



Dry hills and flats, 200 to 3500 feet: Coast Ranges from Humboldt Co. to San 

 Luis Obispo Co. July. 



Loc3. — Mail Ridge (5 mi. s. of Harris), Humboldt Co., Tracy 13,333; Bennett Spr., w. Glenn 

 Co., Heller 11,538; South Mill Creek (head of), se. of Ukiah, Jepson 3018; Cache Creek bridge, 

 2 mi. n. of Lower Lake, Jepson 18,907; Kelsej^ille, Lake Co., Jepson 20,950; Eeiff, Knoxville 

 Eidge, Jepson 19,002; Calistoga, Greene; Gates Canon, Vaca Mts., Jepson 20,952; Mt. Diablo, 

 Bowerman 910; Moraga Pass, Oakland Hills, Davy; Black Mt., Santa Clara Co., Pendleton 1475; 

 Pajaro Hills, Monterey Co., Chandler 377; Burro trail, Santa Lucia Mts., K. Brandegee; Santa 

 Lucia Mts. n. of San Luis Obispo, Palmer 410. 



Refs.— Navarretia mellita Greene, Pitt. 1:134 (1887); Jepson, Man. 790 (1925). Gilia 

 mellita Greene, Pitt. 1:71 (1887), type loe. Belmont, Sau Mateo Co., Greene; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. 

 Cal. ed. 1, 428 (1901), ed. 2, 333 (1911). N. eastwoodiae Brand; Engler, Pflzr. 4=50.157 (1907), 

 type loc. Mt. Tumalpais, Eastwood 872 (isotyp. vidi). 



20. N. heterodoxa Greene. Stem slender, erect, branching, rarely simple, 4 to 

 11 inches high, the internodes long; herbage slightly glandular-puberulent; leaves 

 Y2 to IVl inches long, the lower with narrowly linear or filiform rachis and few or 

 several pinnate short-subulate segments towards the base (or the lowermost often 

 entire); uppermost leaves lanceolate and entire except at the laciniately toothed 

 base; bracts lanceolate to broadly ovate, laciniate-toothed towards the base; calyx- 

 segments entire, nearly equal; corolla blue, 5 lines long, with exserted declined 

 stamens, the filaments inserted on base of throat; capsule-cells 2 to 6-seeded, the 

 seeds smaU. 



Dry hillslopes and summits, back of the coast, 500 to 1500 feet : Coast Ranges 

 from Sonoma and Napa Cos. to Santa Clara Co. Jime-Aug. 



Locs. — Petrified Forest, e. Sonoma Co., Jepson 20,959; Hope Valley, Sonoma Co., M. S. Baker 

 3041b; Hoods Peak, Michener 4' Bioletti; Rebecca ranch, se. of Calistoga, Jepson 20,962; Howell 

 Mt., Napa Range, Jepson 1731 ; Napa Soda Sprs., ne. of Napa, Jepson 20,960 ; Adobe Creek, near 

 Black Mt., Santa Clara Co., Pendleton 1483; Eva sta., e. slope Santa Cruz Mts., Jepson 20,961; 

 New Almaden, Davy 380. 



Var. rosulata (Brand) Jepson comb. n. Stamens included. — Marin Co. (betw. West Point 

 and Willow Camp, Mt. Tamalpais, K. Brandegee ; Big Carson, Eastwood) ; San Mateo Co. 



Refs. — Navarretia heterodoxa Greene, Pitt. 1:134 (1887) ; Jepson, Man. 791 (1925). Gilia 

 heterodoxa Greene, Bull. Cal. Acad. 1:10 (1884), type loe. Calistoga (hills w.), Greene; Jepson, 

 Fl. W. Mid. Cal. ed. 1, 428 (1901), ed. 2, 333 (1911). G. viscidula Tar. heterodoxa Gray, Syn. Fl. 

 ed. 2, 2:409 (1886). G. parvula Greene, Pitt. 1:72 (1887), type loc. Crystal Sprs., San Mateo Co., 

 Greene. N. parvula Greene, Pitt. 1:134 (1887). Var. rosulata Jepson. N. rosulata Brand; 

 Engler, Pflzr. 4"° : 154, fig. 34 G-J (1907), type loc. San Anselmo, Marin Co., Eastwood. N. fallax 

 Brand, I.e. 156 (1907), type loe. Belmont Lake, San Mateo Co., Alrams 2998. 



21. N. atractyloides H. & A. Stems freely branched, stoutish, 2 to 8 (or 11) 

 inches high, the branches short and spreading or procumbent; herbage villous- 

 pubescent, more or less glandular, often somewhat purplish ; leaves rigidly coria- 

 ceous, Y2 to 2^/4 inches long, the main body or raeliis oblong-lanceolate to ovate or 

 linear, (1 or) 2 to 4 lines broad, the margin armed with subulate or aristate teeth 

 or spines, the teeth or spines mostly remote or discrete; bracts similar to the leaves, 

 very coriaceous and saliently spiny; calyx-lobes moderately unequal to very un- 

 equal, ovate to lanceolate, cu.spidate, entire (or rarelj' some of the calyces with the 

 larger lobes 3-toothed) ; corolla narrowly funnelform, purple, sometimes white or 

 yellow, 7 'to 9 lines long; stamens included in or shortly exserted from coroUa- 

 throat ; capsule-cells 4 to 10-seeded. 



Dry rocky or clay hills or sandy valleys, 20 to 1500 (or 4000) feet : Coast Ranges 

 from Humboldt Co. to San Luis Obispo Co. ; San Joaquin Valley from eastern 

 Contra Costa Co. to Madera Co.; coastal Southern California. July. 



Note on variation. — While generally regarded as a variable unit Navarretia atractyloides as 

 here conceived, sensu lato, is marked by certain fairly constant boundaries: (a) Its habit is uni- 



