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loc. Guadalupe CaCon, Inyo Co., S. TV. Anstin 453. G. tenuiflora var. triceps subvar. speciosissima 

 Brand, I.e. 102, type loc. Olancha, Inyo Co., T. Brandegee. G. alpina Eastw., Lflts. W. Bot. 2 :282 

 (IQiO), type loc.Carson Pass, EasUoood # Howell 8414 (typ. vidi). Var. latiflora Gray, Proc. 

 Am. Acad. 8:278 (1870), "Los Angeles County ? Fremont, Wallace" (typ. vidi) ; (first collected 

 by Fremont, undoubtedly in the Mohave Desert, although there was no "Los Angeles County" at 

 the time of Fremont's 1844 expedition through the Mohave Desert; the collection of Wallace, of 

 later years, must have been made on the desert side of Los Angeles Co.) ; Jepson, Man. 798 (1925) 

 in part. G. latiflora Gray, Syn. Fl. 2:147 (1878). G. tenuiflora siibsp. latiflora Brand; Engler, 

 Pflzr. 4"'':102 (1907). G. tenuiflora var. purpvsii Mlkn., Univ. Cal. Publ. Bot. 2:29 (1904), type 

 loc. Hockett Mdws. (mountain near), Purpux ; Jepson, Man. 798 (1925). G. collina Eastw., Bot. 

 Gaz. 37 :445 (1904), tvpe loc. a mountain near Hockett Mdws., Tulare Co., Purpus 1783. G. collina 

 var. typica Brand; Engler, Pflzr. 4-='>:101 (1907). G. stellata Hel., Muhl. 2:117 (1906), type 

 loc. Randsburg, Kern Co., Heller 7698. Var. speciosa Jepson; type loc, Eed Rock Cafion, w. end 

 El Paso Mts., Kramex. Var. DAVY! Mason; Jepson, Man. 597 (1925). Gilia davyi Mlkn., Univ. 

 Cal. Publ. Bot. 2 :30 (1904), type loc. Tehachapi (not "Antelope Valley"), Daf?/ 2178. G. arenaria 

 var. davyi Brand, I.e. 104. G. tenuiflora var. excellens Brand, I.e. 103, "near Cameron" (that is, 

 on the desert side of the lower Tehachapi Pass), Kern Co., K. Brandegee. 



6. G. ochroleuca Jones. Stems sleuder, one to several from the base, branched, 

 erect or ascending, 4 to 9 inches high, glandular-puberiilent or glabrous ; leaves vil- 

 lous or tomentulose to glabrate, disposed in a basal tuft but also cauline and reduced 

 upwards; flowering branches and calyces with scattered tack-shaped glands; basal 

 leaves petioled, ^ to l^/^ inches long, pinnately divided into 5 to 9 lobes, the lobes 

 linear, entire or sometimes toothed; cauline leaves palmately divided into 5 (or 3) 

 lobes or sometimes pinnately 5-divided, sessile, mostly 3 to 9 lines long ; flowers on 

 slender spreading or divaricate pedicels in loose open cymes; calyx about 1 line 

 long, its triangular-acute teeth 1/5 to 1/4 as long as the tube ; corolla yellow, sometimes 

 white, rarely purplish-tinged, slender-funnelform, 2 to 4 lines long, 2 to 3 times as 

 long as the cahrs, its tube shorter than the calyx to twice as long; stamens included 

 in corolla-throat; capsule ovate, its cells several-seeded; seeds showing spirieles 

 when wetted. 



Desert slopes and mesas, 2000 to 5000 (or 6800) feet : Mt. Pinos region; Mohave 

 Desert ; southern Sierra Nevada in Kern Co.; Inyo Co.; Mono Co. East and north 

 to Nevada. Peb.-June. 



Locs. — Mt. Piiios region: Frazier Mt., Hoffman. Mohave Desert: Rabbit Sprs., Parish 

 9808; Box S ranch (20 mi. n.), Mum 12,418; Kramer, K. Brandegee : Providence Mts., Jepson 

 18,210 (Fountain Canon), 18,285 (Bonanza King Canon), 18,332 (Cedar Cafion, Mid-Hillsl ; 

 Barnwell, New York Mts., K. Brandegee. Southern Sierra Nevada : Erskine Creek, Purpus 5524. 

 Inyo Co.: Darwin Valley, Hall 4- Chandler 7103; Independence, S. TV. Austin 423; Red Hill, w. 

 of Bishop, Heller 8429. Mono Co.: Rock Creek, Pcirson in litt. 



Rofs. — GiLiA OCHROLEUCA Jones, Contrib. W. Bot. 8 :35 (1898), type loc. Darwin Mesa, Argus 

 Mts., Jones; Jepson, Man. 797 (1925). G. inconspicua var. ochroleuca Brand; Engler, Pflzr. 

 4250:105 (1907). 



7. G. scopulorum Jones. Stem branching from or near the base, 4 to 12 inches 

 high, the branches slender; herbage clammy glandular-pubescent or the inflores- 

 cence nearly glabrous; leaves mostly in a basal tuft, the cauline few, the upper re- 

 duced to few-lobed or entire bracts; blades of basal leaves 1 to 1% inches long, 

 pinnately divided (with pinnatifid lobes), or pinnatifid or sometimes merely in- 

 cisely or coarsely toothed, petioled; cauline leaves similar to the basal, sessile; 

 flowers loosely cymose-panieulate; cal.yx % to 2 lines long, cleft if, to lA ; corolla 

 tubular-funnelform, livid red, pink, lavender or white with yellow throat, 4 to 6 

 lines long, the slender tube IY2 to 3 times as long as the calyx, the lobes apiculate; 

 stamens with very short filaments inserted in sinuses. 



Desert flats and caiions, 500 to 4000 feet : eastern Mohave Desert and north to 

 Mono Co. East to Utah. Apr.-May. 



Locs. — Mohave Desert: Copper Basin Creek, Whipple Mts., Peirson 11,484; Needles, Jones 

 3846; Kelso, Jones; Red Rock Canon, w. end El Paso Mts., se. Kern Co., Mum 12,447. Inyo Co.: 

 Johnson Caiion, Pananiint Range, Jepson 19,779; Nelson Range, S. TV. Austin; Kcelor, T. Brande- 

 gee. Mono Co.: Mono Lake, Oitley 1109. 



