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fore Gray when he described this plant, the following is here named as lectotype: Truckee Desert, 

 w. Nev., W. W. Bailey 914 (Gray Herb.). Jflugelia floccosa Howell, Fl. Nw. Am. 458 (1901). 

 G. virgata var. floccosa lllkn., Univ. Cal. Publ. Bot. 2:40 (1904). Navarretia virgata subsp. 

 floccosa Brand; Engler, Pflzr. 4==»:168 (1907). WelwitscMa floccosa Eydb., Fl. Eocky Mts. 688 

 (1917). Gilia wilcoxii Nels., Bot. Gaz. 34:27 (1902), type loc. St. Anthony, Ida., Wilcox # 

 Merrill 822. Navarretia wilcoxii Brand; Engler, Pflzr. 4-^0:165 (1907). WelwitscMa wilcoxii 

 Eydb., Fl. Eocky Mts., 688 (1917). 



7. H. dififusa (Gray) Jepson comb. n. Stem diffusely and usually divaricately 

 branched, 3 to 6 inches high ; branches reddish-brown, glabrate, the flower heads 

 densely woolly with mostly glabrate bracts ; leaves 2 to 7 lines long, entire or with 

 1 or 2 pairs of short lobes near the base, glabrate ; flower heads many, 2 to 6 lines 

 broad, not exceeded by the bracts or rarely markedly exceeded; bracts palmately 

 3 to 5-lobed; corolla pale blue or white with yellow throat; stamens included in 

 corolla-throat. 



Sandy flats, 300 to 2500 feet: Mohave and Colorado deserts. East to Nevada 

 and Texas. Apr.-June. 



Locs. — Mohave Desert: Lancaster, K. Brandegee; Copper City (ridges n.), C. N. Smith; 

 Kessler Peak, Ivanpah Mta., Jepson 15,827; Cima, Ivanpah Valley, Jepson 15,849; Needles, Jones 

 5148. Colorado Desert: McCoy Wash, e. Eiverside Co., Hall 5965; Coachella, Schellenger (not 

 typical) ; San Felipe, e. San Diego Co., K. Brandegee ; Vallecito, e. San Diego Co., Jepson 8590. 



Var. harwoodii (Craig) Jepson comb. n. Heads markedly wliite-tomentose ; corolladobes 

 apiculate. — Eastern Mohave Desert (Kelso) and eastern Eiverside Co. (Bull. Torr. Club 64:425). 



Eefs. — nuGBi,iA DIFFUSA Jepson. Gilia filifolia var. diffusa Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 8:272 

 (1870), "Fort Mohave and Nevada to New Mexico and the borders of Texas." Navarretia filifolia 

 var. diffusa Brand; Engler, Pflzr. 4-'^<':167 (1907). WelwitscMa diffusa Eydb., Fl. Eocky Mts. 

 688 (1917). Var. HARWOODII Jepson. Gilia filifolia var. harwoodii Craig, Bull. Torr. Club, Gi-A2i 

 (1934), type loc. Blythe jet., e. Eiverside Co., Mum 4- Harwood 3589. 



8. H. hooveri Jepson sp. n. Stem simple or sparingly branched, 2 to 4 inches 

 high ; leaves linear-filiform, entire, 6 to 7 lines long ; flowers 1 to 3 in clusters ter- 

 minal on the branchlets; bracts 2 to 2i'o times as long as the flowers, tomentose be- 

 low or glabrate, linear and entire, or with 1 or 2 pairs of lanceolate lobes at the 

 middle or below, the lobes more or less recurved; calyx tomentose; corolla pure 

 white, equaling or slightly exceeding the calyx, 2^/4 to 4 lines long, its lobes equal, 

 bilabiately arranged or regular ; stamens included in corolla-throat ; capsule ovoid, 

 11/2 lines long, each cell containing 2 to 4 seeds. — (Caulis simplex vel pauciramosus, 

 2-4 unc. altus ; folia lineari-filiformia, 6-7 lin. longa ; flores 1-3-aggregati termiiia- 

 lesque; braeteae lineares integerrimae, vel loborum lanceolatorum 1-2-jugis me- 

 dialibus vel infernis praeditae ; calyces tomentosi ; corolla Candida, bilabiata vel 

 regularis, calycem aequans vel pauce superans, 2^/^^ lin. longa). 



Clay plains, 200 to 450 feet : floor of the San Joaquin Valley from Fresno Co. 

 to Kern Co. Apr. 



Locs. — Kerman (9 mi. a.), Fresno Co., Hoover 1780; betw. Lost Hills and Semitropic, Kern 

 Co., Hoover 1801 ; Oildale, Kern Co., Hoover 4081. 



Eef . — Hdgelia hooveki Jepson ; type loc. Shaf ter, Kern Co., Hoover 1846 (typ. in Herbario 

 Jepsoniano). 



9. H. abramsii (Elmer) Jepson & Bailey comb. n. Stem freely and erectly 

 branching from and above the base or sometimes reduced and subsimple, 2 to 5^^ 

 inches high; herbage lanate, soon glabrate, the heads persistently white-woolly; 

 leaves % to 1% inches long, pinnately divided with 2 pairs or 1 pair of filiform seg- 

 ments, or rarely a few leaves entire and filiform ; body of the bracts white-woolly, 

 the 3 linear or subulate divisions spreading or divaricate, mostly glabrate ; heads 6 

 to 10-flowered, terminal on the branches, about 5 to 7 lines broad; calyx with 

 lanceolate-subulate lobes 1/2 as long as the very scarious tube, white-woolly except 

 the tips of the lobes; corolla white, 2^2 lines long, its tube narrowly tubular 

 (scarcely or not at all enlarged upward into a throat), its lobes narrow, about % 

 to 14 as long as the tube; capsule 3-seeded, the seeds narrowly oblong, mucilaginous 

 imder water. 



