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Brand, I.e. Navarretia densifolia subsp. elongata Brand, I.e. Var. mohavensis Jepson. Gilia 

 densifolia var. molmvensis Craig, Bull. Torr. Club, 61:392 (1934), type loe. betw. Rosamond and 

 Mohave, Craig 1360. Var. sajjctarum Jepsou, Man. 792 (1925). Gilia densifolia var. sanctarum 

 Mlkn., Univ. Cal. Publ. Bot. 2:39 (1904), type loc. Santa Ana River near Riverside, Hnll 683. 

 G. densifolia var. longiflora Gray, in herb. Var. austromontana Jepson. Gilia densifolia var. 

 austromontana Craig, I.e. 61:391, type loc. Nellie, Palomar Mt., Mum 8341. Eugelia densifolia 

 subsp. austromontana Ewan, Bull. Torr. Club 64:520 (1937). 



2. H. pluriflora Ewan. Stem erect, mostly simple below and branched above, 



5 to 9 inches high; leaves % to I14 inches long, shortly petioled or subsessile, pin- 

 nately divided into 3 to 7 filiform or subulate segments, the segments remote; heads 

 few to many, densely tomentose, (^,4 or) V2 to mostly 1 inch broad; bracts pinnately 

 divided ; calyx-lobes inconspicuously margined ; corolla almost salverform or the 

 tube slightly funnelform, vivid blue, 6 to 9 lines long, its tube and throat 2 to 4 

 times as long as calyx, hairy on the inside; corolla- throat blue or yellow; stamens 

 inserted in the corolla-sinuses, exserted from throat. 



Sandy flats in the valleys and mountains, 100 to 6000 feet : San Joaquin Valley 

 plain and its bordering foothills and ranges, that is, inner South Coast Range from 

 Alameda Co. to northeastern Santa Barbara Co., Sierra Nevada (mostly in the 

 foothills) from Mariposa Co. to Kern Co., and Tehachapi Mts.; western Mohave 

 Desert. May-Aug. 



Loes. — South Coast Ranges : Corral Hollow, e. Alameda Co., Brewer 1212 ; Cholame Valley, 

 se. Monterey Co., Lemmon; Estrella, San Luis Obispo Co., Jared; Carrizo plain, se. San Luis 

 Obispo Co., KecTi 2808. Santa Barbara Co.: upper Cuyama Valley, Munz 11,416. San Joaquin 

 Valley: betw. Mossdale School and Atlanta, Jepson 15,048; Livingston, Merced Co., Congdon; 

 Kettleman plain. Kings Co., Jepson 12,172; Edison, Kern Co., Boover 666; Taft, Kern Co., 

 Hoffmann. Sierra Nevada: Mariposa, Dodd; betw. Huntington Lake and Caseada, A. L. Grant 

 1397; Big Creek, Fresno Co., Jepson 13,121; Dunlap, s. Fresno Co., Eastuwod; betw. Halstead 

 ranch and Davis ranch, North Fork Kaweah River, Jepson 567; Alder Creek, Tulare Co., TV. Fry 

 342; upper Grouse Valley, Tulare Co., Jepson 4712; Middle Tule River, Purpus 1355; Poso Creek, 

 Greenhorn Mts., Kern Co., C. N. Smith 191. Tehachapi Mts. : near Caliente, Davy 1939 ; Ft. Tejon, 

 Parish 1897. Mt. Piiios region: Ballinger Caiion, ne. Santa Barbara Co., H. ^ M. Dearing 1384. 

 Western Mohave Desert: Lancaster, K. Brandcgee. 



Refa. — HuGELiA pluriflora Ewan, Bull. Torr. Club 64:520 (1937). Gilia pluriflora Hel., 

 Muhl. 2:113 (1906), resting on G. virguta var. florihunda Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 8:272 (1870), 

 type from Cal., Fitch; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 426 (1901), ed. 2, 331 (1911). Navarretia virgata 

 var. florihunda Brand; Engler, Pflzr. 4-'°:168 (1907). Gilia brauntonii Jepson & Mason, in 

 Jepson, Flora of the Econ. Plants Cal. 130 (1924), resting on Gilia virgata var. floribunda Gray. 

 Hugclia brauntonii Jepson & Mason, in Jepson, Man. 793 (1925). For Giba virgata var. flori- 

 bunda. Gray mentions three collectors, but the collection of Fitch as the first cited, may well be 

 taken as the type. During the 1870s and later Fitch collected at various places in central Cali- 

 fornia. He was for some time at Stockton, near which place, in that early day, the plant described 

 by Gray as Gilia virgata var. floribunda was abundant. The plant called Gilia sherman-hoytae 

 Craig (Bull. Torr. Club 61:415, — 1934), type loc. 10 mi. s. of Muroc, w. Mohave Desert, Mum 4" 

 Craig 12,925 (isotyp. vidi), is not distinguishable by any definite character from Hugelia pluri- 

 flora. Variation in size of flower heads is continuous. The type of Gilia sherman-hoytae consists 

 mostly of unbranched plants which seem to represent a depauperate phase of Hugelia pluriflora. 



3. H. eremica Jepson. Stems many from the base, diffusely and often dicho- 

 tomously branched, 4 to 6 inches high ; leaves 5 to 9 lines long, pinnately divided 

 into (3 or) 5 to 7 short linear lobes, or the short lateral lobes approximate and sub- 

 basal with the terminal lobe elongated ; heads small, numerous, 2 to 5 lines broad, 

 densely woolly; outer bracts pinnately divided; corolla violet or lavender, ly.y to 

 2 times as long as the calyx, its lobes bilabiately arranged, usually with 3 lobes in 

 upper lip, and 2 lobes spreading right and left as a lower lip; stamens unequal, 

 exserted from corolla-throat, the filaments inserted at base of throat ; capsule about 



6 to 9-seeded. 



Sandy flats and mesas, 300 to 5000 feet : Inj^o Co. ; eastern and central Mohave 

 Desert; valleys and mountains on the west borders of the Colorado Desert. East 

 to Nevada and Arizona, south to Lower California. June. 



Note on bilabiation. — The corolla in Hugelia eremica is thought to be generally bilabiate, but 

 not constantly of one form. Wliile there are usually 3 lobes in the upper lip and 2 in the lower 



