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POLEMONIACEAE 



tubular-salverform, white with a brownish throat, Y^ to 1^/4 inches broad, % to 1^4: 

 inches long, about 2 times as long as calj'x, the lobes a little exceeding the tube and 

 strongly convolute in the bud; stamens inserted ui lower part of corolla-tube, in- 

 cluded in the throat ; filaments with a hairy pad at base ; style very short, about 

 equaling the ovary; capsule oblong, the cells many-seeded; seeds with a loose white 

 bladdery testa, the testa alveolate, the hilum seated at the base of a small and rather 

 deep circular cavity. 



Dry hillslopes and sandy or gravell.y flats, 600 to 5000 feet ; Coast Ranges from 

 Tehama Co. to San Luis Obispo Co. (always back of the coast line) ; Sacramento 



Valley; Sierra Nevada from Butte Co. to Kern 

 Co. ; Inyo Co. ; Jlohave Desert and its bordering 

 ranges ; Santa Rosa Mts. (west side of the Colorado 

 Desert). Mar.-June. 



Locs. — Coast Ranges: Paskenta (6 mi. w.), w. Te- 

 hama Co., Virginia Bailey; Indian Valley, ne. Lake Co., 

 M. S. Bazell; Conn Valley, Napa Range, Jepson 10,313; 

 Dry Creek, nw. of Napa, aec. E. M. Smith ; Sonoma, Brewer 

 969; Corral Hollow, w. San Joaquin Co., Jepson 9597; 

 Stanford, C. F. Baker 529; Mt. Hamilton, JeiJSon 4194; 

 Jolon, Monterey Co., Wiggins 8032 ; San Carlos Creek, San 

 Carlos Range, Jepson 2723; Hernandez (4 mi. nw.), s. San 

 Benito Co., S. S. Ferris; Coalinga, sw. Fresno Co., Jepson 

 17,013; Carrizo plain (low hills at n. end), se. San Luis 

 Obispo Co., Jepson 12,020; San Emigdio (Zoe 4:146). 

 Sacramento Valley: Crane Creek near Rosewood, w. Te- 

 hama Co., Jepson; Marysville Buttes, Jepson 20,926 ; Rose- 

 ville. Placer Co., Slwckley. Sierra Nevada: Butte Co. 

 (Man. S02) ; Sweetwater Creek, Eldorado Co., K. Brande- 

 gee ; Hetch-Hetchy, A. L. Grant; Yosemite Valley, Jepson 

 10,4S2a; Ahwahnee, Madera Co., Jepson 12,825; Sequoia 

 Park, Fry ; lower Kern River foothills, Benson 2977. Inyo 

 Co.: Bishop Creek, Hall <j- Chandler 7230; Maturangos 

 Spr., Argus Mts. (Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 4:153). 

 Ranges bordering the western Mohave Desert: Tehachapi 

 Pass, Jepson 17,334a; Mt. Piiios, Hoffjnann ; Los Alamos 

 Valley, Santa Barbara Co., Jepson 20,272 ; Elizabeth Lake, 

 Los Angeles Co., Hall 3065 ; Arraster Creek, San Gabriel 

 Mts., Peirson 393a; Cajon Pass, Jepson 6131; Santa Ana 

 Caiion, San Bernardino Mts., Parish. Mohave Desert : Hes- 

 peria, Newlon 471; Kramer, Mary Beal ; Barstow, Jepson 

 5392; Daggett, Mary Beal; Calico Mts., Jepson 17,239; 

 Paradise Spring (3 mi. ne.). Paradise Mts., Jepson 20,353; 

 Quail Spr., 10 mi. se. of Warrens Well, Saylor 247; Hole- 

 in-the-Wall, Providence Mts., Jepson 18,341. Mountains 

 on w. side Colorado Desert: Pinon Well, mts. n. of Indio, 

 Jepson 5994 ; Vandeventer Flat, Santa Rosa Mts., Jepson 

 14C3a; Jacumba, se. San Diego Co., T. Brandegee. 



Refs. — LiNANTHUS MCHOTOMDS Benth., Bot. Reg. sub 

 t. 1622 (1833), type from Cal., Douqlas: Jepson, Fl. W. 

 Mid. Cal. 430 (1901), ed. 2, 334 (1911), Man. 801, fig. 776 

 (1925). Gilia dichotoma Benth.; DC, Prodr. 9:314 

 (1845). G. linanthtis Steud., Nom. Bot. ed. 2, 1:684 (1840). G. dichotoma var. uniflora Brand; 

 Engler, Pflzr. 4=^<':144 (1907), type from Cal., Bolander. 



8. L. bigelovii Greene. Stem erect, usually simple below, dichotomously 

 branched above, 3 to 9 inches high, the flowers subsessile in the forks or terminal on 

 the branehlets; herbage glabrous, pallid; leaves opposite throughout, the blades 

 very narrowly linear and entire, or rarely 2 or 3-parted, Yn to I14 inches long; 

 flowers mostly sessile (rarely pedicelled) in the forks (above the middle of the plant, 

 rarely from the base) and terminal; calyx cylindrical, glabrous, with very con- 

 spicuous hyaline intervals between the ribs, 4 to 6 lines long, its spreading lobes 

 1 to 1% lines long; corolla funnelform-tubular, white, with a dark circle in the 

 throat, 4 to 6 (or 8) lines long, exceeded by or exceeding the calyx, its limb II/2 to 



Fig. 389. LiNANTHUS dichotomus 

 Benth. a, flowering branch, X 1 ; 

 6, calyx, X 2; c, coroUa-tube spread 

 out, X 2. 



