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Dry slopes, in cliaparral or on outcropping ledges, 500 to 2900 feet : Coast 

 Rang-es from Contra Costa Co. to Siskiyou Co. ; Sierra Nevada (mostly in the foot- 

 hills) from Fresno Co. to Shasta Co. North to Washington. Apr.-Juue. 



Locs. — Soutli Coast Ranges: lit. Diablo, Bowerman 2905; proliably not on Mt. Hamilton 

 (Univ. Cal. Publ. Bot. 2:51) or in San Benito Co. (Jepson, Man. 804). North Coast Ranges: 

 Mt. Konocti (e. of), Blanlcinship; Indian Valley, ne. Lake Co., M. S. JBasell; Hullville, n. Lake 

 Co., Jepson 20,919; Lodoga, w. Colusa Co., Jepson 16,269; Long Valley, Mendocino Co., Tracy 

 5803; Leggett Valley, nw. Mendocino Co., Tracy 5501; Paskenta (6 mi. w.), w. Tehama Co., 

 Virginia Bailey ; Crane Creek, w. Tehama Co., Jepson 20,921 ; Grasshopper Peak, South Fork Eel 

 River, Constance 890; South Fork Mountain, Trinity Co., Jepson 16,672; Three Forks of Mad 

 River, Trinity Co., Tracy 10,164; Oro Fino, Siskij-ou Co., Butler 621. Sierra Nevada : Watts Val- 

 ley (ridge w.), Fresno Co., Hoover; Hites Cove, Mariposa Co., Congdon ; betw. Laynes ranch and 

 Salmon Falls, Eldorado Co., K. Brandegee ; Susanville, Lemmon ; Red Bluff (rubble field ne.), 

 Jepson 16,351. 



Refs. — LiNANTHUs BOLANDEKi Greene, Pitt. 2:255 (1892); Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 430 

 (1901), Man. 804 (1925). Gilia bolanderi Gray, Proe. Am. Acad. 8:263 (1870), type loc. "Sonoma 

 Co." (in reality Ukiah, Mendocino Co.), Bolander 3830 (the true locality and number from label 

 in Gray Herb.), (typ. vidi). 



18. L. pygmaeus J. T. Howell. Stem slender or filiform, diifu.sely branched 

 from the ba,se or sometimes erect and branched above, 1% to 6 inches high ; herbage 

 minutely puberulent, the internodes rather long ; leaf -blades palmately cleft into 

 4 or 5 filiform segments 2 to 2^/4 lines long, the segments shortly hispidulose and 

 hispidulose-ciliate ; flowers on filiform pedicels in the forks or terminal, the pedicels 

 2 to 8 lines long ; calyx c.ylindric, 2 to 2^ •> lines long, glabrous or rarely puberulent, 

 its subulate teeth commonly closely erect (especiall.y in bud), in age often spread- 

 ing horizontally, about equaling the calyx-tube; calyx-tube usually 3-nerved be- 

 neath the lobes, in age slightly thickened or distended; corolla white, IVi to 2^ 

 lines long, shorter than the calyx or only slightly exceeding it ; corolla limb Y-i to 

 1 line broad ; stamens exserted shortlj- from corolla-throat, the filaments inserted 

 unequally about middle of throat, glabrous ; cap.sule linear-oblong, the cells sevei-al- 

 seeded. 



In chaparral or on openly wooded sloj^es, 50 to 5000 feet : Butte Co. ; Nortli Coast 

 Ranges from western Yolo Co. to Napa Co. ; South Coast Ranges from Contra Costa 

 Co. to southwestern Fresno Co.; Teliachapi Mts.; eismontane Southern California 

 from the San Bernardino Valley to the Laguna Mts. South to Guadalupe Isl., 

 Lower California. Apr. -May. 



Locs. — Butte Co.: plains near the Sierra Nevada foothills e. of Chico, R. M. Austin 168. 

 North Coast Ranges: Eumsey (hills n.), Yolo Co., Hoover 3191 ; Kelseyv-ille, Lake Co., Eastwood 

 4- Eoxvell 5734; Howell Mt.,"Napa Range, Tracy 1502; Conn Valley, Napa Range, Jepson 20,920. 

 South Coast Ranges: Antioch, T. Brandegee; Stanford, C. F. Baker 680; Mt. Hamilton, J. T. 

 Howell 4661; Pacific Grove, Heller 6796; Milpitas Creek, Santa Lucia Mts., Eastwood 4- Howell 

 2401; Hernandez, s. San Benito Co., Eastwood ; Priest Valley, se. Monterey Co., Eastwood ; Al- 

 calde, sw. Fresno Co., Easticood. Tehachapi Mts.: Tehachapi, T. Brandegee. Cismontane S. Cal.: 

 Santa Ana Hills, San Bernardino Valley, Parish 1413; Laguna Lake, Laguna Mts., Peirson 5924. 



Eefs. — LlN.^NTHU.s PYGM.VEUS Howell, Lflts. W. Bot. 2:100 (1938). Gilia pygmaea Brand; 

 Engler, Pflzr. 4="''J:134 (1907), type loe. Guadalupe Isl., L. Cal., Palmer 79. L. pusillus Jepson, 

 Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 430 (1901) ; not Gilia pusUla Benth., Bot. Reg. sub t. 1622 (1833), type loc. 

 La Punta de Cortes, Chile, Bertero. 



19. L. grandiflorus Greene. Stem simple, erect, 3 to 10 (or 14) inches high, 

 glabrous or glabrate; leaf-blades palmately parted into narrowly linear lobes, 7% 

 to 1214 lines long, puberulent to glabrous; flowers few to .several in dense terminal 

 heads or rarely 1 or 2 in the subterniinal axils; bracts villous-ciliate; calyx villous, 

 its tube scarious to base below the sinuses, its lobes a little shorter than the tube; 

 corolla funnelform, pure white, aging lilac or pink, 7^^ to 121/^ lines long, the 

 throat long-tapering, about equaling the tube ; stamens inserted near the base of 

 the throat, equaling the throat ; style exserted a little from throat ; capsule-cells 

 1 to 5-seeded. 



Openly wooded grassy hill slopes or sandy valley flats, 20 to 2600 feet : Marin 

 Co. and western Alameda Co. to northern Santa Barbara Co. Mav-June. 



