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inserted in the throat, the anther of the uppermost stamen sometimes protruding 

 from the throat ; capsule ellipsoid, seeds 2 or 3 in each cell. 



Shady places in the foothills, 200 to 2600 feet : San Bernardino foothills; Sierra 

 Nevada from Kern Co. to Shasta Co. ; Coast Ranges (mostly in the outer and middle 

 ranges) from Monterey Co. to western Siskiyou Co. and Del Norte Co. North to 

 British Columbia and Idaho. Mar.-Apr. 



Locs. — San Bernardino Mts.: foothills, s. slope (PI. World 20:249). Sierra Nevada: Kem- 

 villc, T. Brandegee ; East Fork Kaweali Eiver, Jepson 1006a; Italian Bar, Tuolumne Co., A. L. 

 Grant 27a; Sutter Creek, Amador Co., Braunton 1066; Forest Hill, Placer Co., L. S. Smith 1622; 

 Brush Creek, Butte Co., Conger; Upper Soda Sprs., near Dunsrauir, Heller 7947. Coast Ranges: 

 Point Sur, Monterey coast, T. Brandegee; Gilroy, Jepson 14,992; Stanford, C. F. Baler 869; 

 Mt. Tamalpais, Newlon 86; Blue Lakes, Lake Co., Jepson 14,991; Fort Bragg, Matheivs 57; Look 

 Prairie, Bull Creek, Humboldt Co., Constance 628; Kneeland Prairie, Humboldt Co., Trac-y 3044; 

 Shackleford Creek, w. Siskiyou Co., Butler 1496; Eighteen-mile Creek, Del Norte Co., R. Van 

 Deventer 93; Gasquet, Del Norte Co., Tracy 12,378. 



Eefs. — Coi-LOMIA HETEKOPHTLLA Hook., Bot. Mag. t. 2895 (1829), type from Cal., Menzies; 

 Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 424 (1901), ed. 2, 329 (1911), Man. 784 (1925). Gilia heterophylla 

 Dougl.; Hook. I.e.; Lindl., Bot. Eeg. t. 1347 (1830). C. diversifoUa Greene, Pitt. 1:128 (1887), 

 type loc. Epperson road, mts. of sw. Colusa Co. [probably above present Venado road sta.], Curran. 



2. C. tinctoria Kell. Stem diffusely branched (or simple when much reduced), 

 2 to 6 (or 8) inches high; herbage glandular- villous ; leaves linear or lanceolate, 

 entire, % to 2 inches long, subsessile or gradually narrowed to a margined petiole ; 

 flowers in capitate clusters at the ends of the branches or solitary or in 2s or 3s in 

 the leaf-axUs ; calyx turbinate, its tube ehartaceous with scai-ious mtervals to base 

 beneath the sinuses, the teeth conspicuously awn-pointed from a broad base, l^/i 

 to 2 lines long; corolla yellow, slender- funu elf orm, the tube almost filiform, often 

 purple, 414 to 11 lines long, 2 to 3 times as long as the cah'x; stamens equally 

 or nearly equally inserted above middle of corolla-throat ; filaments unequal, the 

 longer exserted; style equaling the corolla-tube; cells of the capsule one-seeded. 



Montane, 1000 to 6500 (or 8000) feet: North Coast Ranges from Lake Co. to 

 western Siskiyou Co. ; Sierra Nevada from Mono Co. to Shasta and Modoc Cos. 

 North to eastern Oregon and Idaho. June-July. 



Locs. — North Coast Ranges: Snow Mt., n. Lake Co., T. Brandegee ; South YoUo Bolly, Jepson 

 14,994 ; South Fork Mt., Humboldt Co., Tract/ 9046 ; Dinsmore, Van Duzen River Valley, Tracy 

 16,372; Trinity Summit, n. Humboldt Co., Tracy 10,468; Mary Blaine Mt., Trinity Co., Tracy 

 14,466 ; betw. Orleans Bar and Somes Bar, Klamath River, Chandler 1475 ; Sisson, s. Siskiyou 

 Co., S. Brown; Marble Mt., w. Siskiyou Co., Chandler 1634. Sierra Nevada: Sonora Pass (e. 

 side), A. L, Grant; French Mdws., Middle Fork American River, Placer Co., L. S. Smith 1680a; 

 Dog Valley, e. Nevada Co., Jepson 21,223; Truckee, Sonne 388; Mineral, e. Tehama Co., J. Grin- 

 nell; Pine Creek, Lassen Co., Baker 4' Nutting ; Thousand Lake Valley, s. of Mt. Burney, e. Shasta 

 Co., Peirson 10,200 ; Forestdale, sw. Modoc Co., M. S. Baker. 



Refs. — CoLLOMiA TINCTORIA Kell., Proc. Cal. Acad. 3:17, fig. 2 (1863), type from "western 

 slope of the Sierra Nevada Mts.," B. C. Dorr; Jepson, Man. 784 (1925). C. linearis var. suhulata 

 Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 8:259 (1870), based on C. tinctoria Kell. Gilia tinctoria Kell.; Curran, 

 Bull. Cal. Acad. 13:142 (1885). G. aristella Gray, Syn. Fl. ed. 2, 408 (1886), type loc. "northern 

 part of California," Greene (that is, Siskiyou Co.). C. aristella Rydb., Mem. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 

 1:318 (1900). C. tinctoria var. subulata Brand; Engler, Pflzr. 4=50:52 (1907). 



COLLOMIA TENELLA Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 8:259 (1870), type loc. Parleys Park, Wasatch 

 Mts., Utah, Watson. Similar to C. tinctoria; stem branching freely, 2 to 7 inches high, the 

 branches slender ; flowers 2% to 3 Unes long ; calys-teeth triangular-acute, V2 to 1 line long ; corolla 

 white or lavender, twice as long as the calyx. — Great Basin region, 1000 to 3000 feet, from Nevada, 

 Utah and Wyoming to eastern Washbigton. June. It has been attributed to California: To- 

 semite, mts. s. of (Bot. Cal. 1:488) ; Siskiyou Mts. (Engler, Pflzr. 4250:51). 



3. C. linearis Nutt. Stem usually simple and erect, 4 to 11 (or 23) inches high ; 

 herbage puberulent, mostly non-glandular or often glandular above, the caljrs more 

 or less glandular-puberulent ; leaf-blades linear to linear-lanceolate, entire, sessile, 

 Y2 to 21/4 inches long; flowers in a terminal capitate cluster or some in 1 to few- 

 flowered clusters on short lateral branchlets; calyx-tube narrow-turbinate in an- 

 thesis with scarious intervals to base beneath sinuses, in fruit turbinate, the tube 



