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at base, inserted at fhe summit of the corolla-tube ; anthers barely exserted from 

 corolla-throat ; ovary 3-angled ; capsule obovate, the cells many-seeded ; seeds mi- 

 nute, scarcely % li'^e long, showing spiricles slightly when wetted. 



Sandy desert flats, alkaline or sterile playas, or hard soil of arid mountain slopes, 

 2000 to 6300 feet : South Coast Ranges in Monterey and San Luis Obispo Cos. ; 

 southern Sierra Nevada in Kern Co. ; Mono Co. ; Inyo Co. ; Mohave Desert. Mar.- 

 June. 



Logs. — South Coast Ranges: Vineyard Canon, Monterey Co., Wiggins 8016; Creston, San 

 Luis Obispo Co., Otto Renner ; Estrella, San Luis Obispo Co., Jared. Teliaeliapi Mts. : Tehachapi 

 (Zoe 2:77). Sierra Nevada in Kern Co.: betw. Greenhorn Summit and Kernville, C. N. Smith 

 381; Walker Pass, Purpus 5405; Cottonwood Creelc, Piute Mts., C. N. Smith 177. Mono Co.: 

 Benton sta., Duran 3242. Inyo Co.: Lone Pine, T. Brandegee ; Homewood Canon, Argus Range, 

 Bailey 4' Bohison. Mohave Desert (and the desert slopes of its bordering ranges) : Red Rock 

 Canon, w. end El Paso Mts., Allison Kramcs ; Calico Wash (n. of Daggett), Jepson 5402; betw. 

 Barstow and Stoddard Well, Mary Beal; Amargo, Jepson 15,581; Kramer, Jepson 5402a; Luna 

 Mt., n. slope San Bernardino Mts., Axelrod 403; Horsethief Canon, Clolcey 6823; Cajon Pass, 

 Jepson 6118; Neenach, Antelope Valley, Jepson 19,243; Little Eoek Creek, San Gabriel Mts., 

 Peirson 940. 



Refs.— LiNANTHUS PARRTAE Greene, Pitt. 2:256 (1892); Jepson, Man. 801 (1925). Gilia 

 parry ae Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 12:76 (1876), type loc. near head of the Mohave River, n. slope 

 San Bernardino Mts., Parry 4r Lemmon; Lemmon, Pac. Rural Press 13:34 (1876). G. kennedyi 

 Porter, Bot. Gaz. 2 :77 (1877), type loc. Kern Co., W. L. Kennedy. 



6. L. dianthiflorus Greene. Fringed Gilia. Stem branching, erect or spread- 

 ing, 2 to 6 inches high; herbage subglabrous or minutely puberulent; leaves opposite 

 below but frequently alternate above, linear-filiform, entire, 2 to 7 (or 15) lines 

 long ; plants abundantly florif erous, the flowers in small few-flowered leafy cymes, 

 the pedicels shorter than the calyx ; caljrx usually cleft to the middle, its lobes 

 linear, membranous-margined at base; corolla funnelform, bright pink or lilac 

 (the lobes often white at base, sometimes wholly white), 6 to 9 lines long, 5^/2 to 10 

 lines wide, its lobes dentate, about equalling the combined length of tube and throat; 

 throat yellow, marked with 5 spots, 1^4 to 2 times as long as the yellowish or pur- 

 plish tube; stamens inserted in corolla-tube, included in the throat, the filaments 

 hairy and dilated at the base ; stigmas spirally twisted, spreading horizontally ; 

 capsule oblong, the cells many-seeded ; seeds winged. 



Sandy ground of open valley fields or open hillsides or sometimes in canon flats, 

 50 to 4400 feet : coastal Southern California from Santa Barbara to the San Ber- 

 nardino Valley and south to San Diego Co. ; west side of the Colorado Desert. South 

 to Lower California. Jan. -May. 



Loc3. — Coastal S. Cal.: Santa Barbara, /. E. Boadhou-se; Christys Harbor, Santa Cruz Isl., 

 Hoffmann; Santa Catalina Isl. (Erj^thea 7:142) ; San Fernando Valley, Brewer 161; Claremont, 

 C. F. Balder 4062; San Bernardino, Parish; Lugonia, e. San Bernardino Valley, Parish; San Ja- 

 cinto Lake, Jepson 1238a; betw. Coahuilla Valley and Aguanga, Jepson 1478; Anaheim, Alice 

 King; Elsinore, Jepson 19,144 ; Ramona, Jepson 8516 ; Oak Grove Valley, e. San Diego Co., Jepson 

 17,147; Warner Pass, Jepson 8746; Santa Isabel, Jepson 17,140; Mesa Grande, San Diego Co., 

 E. Ferguson 45; Mt. Soledad, near La Jolla, Neu'lon 2,14:\ San Diego, Jepson 6056. 



Refs. — LiNANTHUS DiANTHirLORUS Greene, Pitt. 2:254 (1892); Jepson, Man. 801 (1925). 

 Femlia dianthiflora Benth., Bot. Reg. sub t. 1622 (1833), type from Cal., Douglas. Gilia dian- 

 thoides Endl., Atakta Bot. t. 29 (1833). G. fenzlia Steud., Nom. Bot. ed. 2, 1:683 (1840). Fenzlia 

 speciosa Nutt., Proc. Acad. Phila. 4 :12 (1848), type loc. Santa Catalina Isl., Gamhel. F. concinna 

 Nutt., I.e. type loc. San Diego, Nuttall. Gilia dianthoides var. farinosa Brand; Engler, Pflzr. 

 42^": 131 (1907), type loc. San Bernardino Co., Parish 36. 



7. L. dichotomus Benth. Evening Snow. (Fig. 389.) Stem simple or dieho- 

 tomously branched, 3 to 6 (or 15) inches high; flowers on short pedicels in the forks 

 or terminal, the pedicels Y^ to 2 lines long ; herbage glabrous with a glaucous tinge ; 

 leaves entire or palmately 3 to 5 or 7-divided, the blade or its divisions narrowly 

 linear or filiform, 6 to 12 lines long; flowers opening in late afternoon or at sunset 

 and closing the next morning; calyx cylindraceous with conspicuous hyaline inter- 

 vals, glabrous, its subulate lobes spreading, y^ or 14 as long as the tube; corolla 



