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2 to 3 lines wide), 2 to 5-flowered (or a few 1-flowered), the bracts mostly palmately divided, 

 exceeding the body of the heads; corolla 5 to 6 lines long, its tube glabrous inside, slightly or not 

 at all exceeding the calyx; stamens inserted at base of corolla-throat. — Dry valley floors and low 

 canons, 50 to 2000 feet: Monterey Co.; cismontane Southern California from Ventura Co. to 

 San Diego Co. June. 



Does. — South Coast Ranges : Carmel Valley, nw. Monterey Co., M. 4" E. Ferguson 254 ; Cho- 

 lame Valley, se. Monterey Co., Lemmon. Cismontane S. Cal.: Santa Susanna Pass, Ventura Co., 

 F. G-rinnell; Decker Canon, Santa Monica Mts., H. <f- If. Bearing 1954; Pasadena, J. Grinnell; 

 Santa Ana Canon, Orange Co., J. T. Howell 2471; San Bernardino Valley (e. end), Jepson 5561; 

 RiTerside, Jepson 1231; San Gorgonio Pass, Jepson 6072 ; San Jacinto Valley, Geo. F. BeinJiardt; 

 Temescal Wash, nw. of Elsinore, Jepson 1574; Temecula, sw. Riverside Co., C. V. Meyer 152; 

 Pala, San Diego Co., Peirson in litt. 



Var. sapphirina (Eastw.) Jepson. Openly branched, 4 to 10 inches (or 2 feet) high; leaves 

 entire; heads few (1 to 4) -flowered, weakly lanate; peduncles and sometimes the bracts minutely 

 glandular ; bracts usually with membranous intervals in the sinuses. — Chaparral slopes and sandy 

 flats, 1900 to 7400 feet, cismontane Southern California: San Gabriel Mts. (Rubio Canon, Peirson 

 156; Swartout Canon, Hall 299) ; San Bernardino Mts. (Bear Valley, CloTcey 5284) ; San Jacinto 

 Mts. (Strawberry Valley, Hall 329; Hemet Valley, C. M. Wilder 959) ; San Diego Co. (Palomar 

 Mt., Esther Hewlett 48; Cuyamaca Mts., Dunn; Witch Creek, Alderson; Buckman Sprs., C. V. 

 Meyer 434). South to Lower California. The corolla has a livelier and brighter blue than any 

 other form in the Hugelia virgata group (F. W. Peirson). 



Var. ambigua (Jones) Jepson comb. n. Erect branching plant, or diffusely branched, 4 to 7 

 inches high ; herbage less woolly than in species, soon glabrate, the peduncles usiially finely 

 glandular; leaves entire or sometimes with a pair of short lobes at base; bracts short, thickish, 

 usually not exceeding the heads ; heads small (1% to 3 or 6 lines wide) ; corolla-tube about equal- 

 ing the calyx. — Sandy mesas or gravelly slopes, 2500 to 6000 feet, western Mohave Desert and its 

 bordering mountain slopes: Lancaster, K. Brandegee; Palmdale, Elmer 3666; Arrastre Creek, 

 n. slope San Gabriel Mts., Peirson 922; Swartout Valley, San Antonio Mts., Mum 7724; Hesperia, 

 Wilson 32 ; Cusheubury Sprs., n. slope San Bernardino Mts., Yates; Walker Pass, s. Sierra Nevada, 

 Purpus 5391. 



Eefs. — Hugelia viegata Benth., Bot. Reg. sub t. 1622 (1833), type from Cal., Douglas; 

 Hook., Icon. PI. t. 200 (1837), an excellent illustration; Jepson, Man. 792 (1925). Gilia virgata 

 Steud., Nom. Bot. ed. 2, 1:684 (1840). Navarretia virgata Brand; Engler, Pflzr. 42^0:167 (1907). 

 N. densifolia var. lanata Brand, I.e. 105, type loc. Seaside sta., Monterey Co., Heller 6753. Var. 

 DASYANTHA Jepson, Man. 793 (1925). Navarretia virgata subsp. gymnocephala var. dasyantha 

 Brand; Engler, Pflzr. 4-=<':168 (1907), type Hall 298, collected in Swartout Canon, San Antonio 

 Mts., ace. Hall Field Book. Var. sapphirina Jepson, Man. 793 (1925). Gilia sapphirina Eastw., 

 Bot. Gaz. 38:71 (1904), type loc. San Jacinto Mts., Blanche Traslc. Navarretia virgata subsp. 

 gymnocephala Brand var. sapphirina Brand, I.e. 168. Gilia virgata var. sapphirina Mcbr., 

 Contrib. Gray Herb. 49:58 (1917). Var. ambigua Jepson. Gilia floccosa var. ambigua Jones, 

 Contrib. W. Bot. 13:2 (1910), type loc. Victorville, Mohave Desert, Jones 10,011. G. virgata var. 

 ambigua Craig, Bull. Torr. Club 61:412 (1934). H. virgata var. pygmaea Jepson, Man. 793 

 (1925), type loc. New York Mts., e. Mohave Desert, Jepson 5463, perhajis belongs here (typ. in 

 Herbario Jepsoniano). 



6. H. filifolia (Nutt.) Jep.son. Stem erect, \'irgately branched or with ascend- 

 ing branches, or sometimes simple, 2 to 12 inches high ; herbage -vvhite-tomentulose 

 or glabrate ; leaves filiform, all entire or a few with 2 small lobes at base, i/4 to 1^/4 

 inches long; heads oblong to narrow-ovate, mostly 2 to 3 (or 4) lines broad, densely 

 woolly, 1 to 3-flowered; bracts linear, woolly or glabrate, straight or ascending- 

 recurved, all with 1 or rarely 2 pairs of short lobes at base ; calyx densely woolly, its 

 lobes shorter than the tube ; corolla blue or white, 3% to 4% lines long, mostly II/4 

 to V/2 times as long as the calyx, its tube nearly equaling or a little exceeding the 

 calyx ; stamens inserted at middle or base of corolla-throat, the anthers barely ex- 

 serted from coroUa-throat ; ovary cells 4-ovuled. 



Dry sandy places : on the coast line in coastal Southern California, 20 to 1900 

 feet; intramoutane Southern California, 5900 to 6100 feet; Sierra Nevada, 4000 to 

 6800 feet, mostly east side or easterly summits or valleys from Kern Co. to Lassen 

 Co.; North Coast Ranges, 2500 to 2700 feet, from Lake Co. to Trinity Co. South 

 to Lower California, east to western Nevada, north to Oregon and Idaho. June-Aug. 



Locs. — Coastal S. Cal., on the coast line: San Diego, If. F. Spencer 66; Howard Canon, La 

 Jolla, Clements 81; Cochies Prietos, Santa Cruz Isl., Hoffmann. Intraraontane S. Cal.: Cactus 

 Flat, San Bernardino Mts., Muns 10,500 ; Mt. Pinos, n. Ventura Co., Dudley 4- Lamb 4685. Sierra 

 Nevada (east side or easterly summits or flats mostly) : Poso Creek, Greenhorn Mts., C. N. Smith 



