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Distrib. note. — Though Linantlius bieolor ia so widely distributed in the foothills in cismon- 

 tane California it seems infrequent in individuals, perhaps in part because of its inconspicuous 

 character and in part because often masked by luxuriant growth on grass lands. Occasionally it 

 is notably gregarious. Along the South Fork American River near Salmon Falls in Eldorado 

 County, the opens of the thinly wooded slopes, carrying only a few scattered oaks, are frequently 

 pale or pink-creamy in April with its broad colonies. It is also common throughout all the low 

 openly oak-wooded hill country of Cottonwood Creek and its tributaries in western Tehama County. 

 In this region it apparently replaces Linanthus parviflorus which is so common on the hills in 

 west central California. The calyx in Linanthus bieolor is usually hispid or hirsute, the corolla 

 is glabrous or sometimes microscopically glandular-pulierulent. 



Locs. — Coastal S. Cal. : Wilson Peak, San Gabriel Mts. (Abrams, Fl. Los Ang. ed. 2, 293) ; 

 San Clemente Isl., Murharger 21; Santa Catalina Isl. (Millsp. & Nutt., Fl. Santa Catalina Isl., 

 214) ; Santa Barbara (Dav. & Mox., Fl. S. Cal. 293). Coast Ranges: Zapato Chino Caiion, Jepson 

 15,383; upper Waltham Creek, sw. Fresno Co., Jepson 16,155; Rattlesnake Butte, Mt. Hamilton 

 Range, Wilson 612; Mt. Diablo, Bowerman 625; Conn Valley, Napa Range, Jepson 10,315; Calla- 

 yomi Valley, s. Lake Co., Jepson 17,417; Lakeport, Tracy 5514; Willits, Mendocino Co., Jepson 

 2496; Sherwood Valley, Mendocino Co., Jepson 1832 ; Upper Look Prairie, Bull Creek, Humboldt 

 Co., Constance 816; Paskenta, w. Tehama Co., Virginia Bailey ; Willow Creek, Trinity River Val- 

 ley, Tracy 15,287; Hupa Mt., n. Humboldt Co., Tracy 12,576. Tehachapi Mts.: Rowen, Jepson 

 6711. Sierra Nevada foothills: Kern River Park, Krames; Kaweah, Tulare Co., W. Fry 113; 

 Big Creek, Fresno Co., /. T. Walker; Fresno Flats, Madera Co., Jepson 12,844; betw. Warnerville 

 and Oakdale, Stanislaus Co., Jepson 18,101 ; Chinese Camp, Tuolumne Co., Jepson 18,060 ; Italian 

 Bar, South Fork Stanislaus River, A. L. Grant 6a; Avery (3 mi. w.), Calaveras Co., Tracy 5723; 

 Salmon Falls, Eldorado Co., Jepson 15,751; Cherry Gulch, Plumaa Co., ace. IF. /. Follett. 



Refs.— Linanthus bicolor Greene, Pitt. 2:260 (1892) ; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 432 (1901), 

 ed. 2, 336 (1911), Man. 805 (1925). Leptosiphon bicolor Nutt., Proc. Acad. Phila. 4:11 (1848), 

 type loe. "on the Oregon [that is, the Columbia River] near the outlet of the Wahlamet" [River], 

 Gambel. Gilia tenella Benth., PI. Hartw. 325 (1849), tj'pe loe. Sacramento Valley (more exactly, 

 near the junction of the Feather and Yuba rivers; cf. Erythea 5:55), Eartweg 228. L. acicularis 

 Greene, Pitt. 2:259 (1892), type from Cal. ; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 432 (1901), ed. 2, 336 (1911), 

 Man. 805 (1925). L. eastwoodae Hel., Muhl. 1:126 (1905), type loe. Clear Creek, Butte Co., 

 Heller. Gilia eastwoodae Brand; Engler, Pflzr. 4-''": 139 (1907), type loe. "Madera," Buckminster 

 (the first-cited locality) ; Zaca Mts., Santa Barbara Co., Eastwood, also cited. Gilia exigua Brand, 

 I.e., type loe. Lake Co., T. Brandegee ; folia plerumque tripartita, segmento intermedio oblanceo- 

 lato, lateralibus linearibus (ex char.). 



25. L. ciliatus Greene. Stem simple or branched, somewhat rigid, 4 to 5 (rarely 

 to 12 or 17) inches high; herbage finely puberulent; leaves palmately parted into 

 linear lobes, ciliate, 2 to 6 (rarely 9) lines long ; flowers capitately congested; bracts 

 ciliate; calyx cleft half-way or a little more, membranotis to base below the sinuses, 

 % to as long as corolla-tube, its lobes acerose ; corolla deep rose-red, pink or purple 

 (the throat yellow) , salverform, 6 to 9 lines long, only slightly exceeding the bracts, 

 the lobes elliptic or oblong, often with a purple spot, 1 to 1^2 lines long; stamens 

 inserted about middle of corolla-throat, about % as long as the corolla-lobes; capsule- 

 cells 1 or 2-seeded. 



Openly wooded hills and mountain slopes, 300 to 8000 feet : inner and middle 

 Coa.st Ranges from western Siskiyou Co. to San Luis Obispo Co. ; Marysville Buttes ; 

 Sierra Nevada from Tehama and Lassen Cos. to Tulare Co.; coa.stal Southern Cali- 

 fornia from Santa Barbara Co. to San Diego Co. Apr.-May. 



Locs. — Coast Ranges: Highland Mine, w. Siskiyou Co., Bntler 944; Sisson, Jepson 20,916; 

 Hennessey road. South Fork Trinity River, Tracy 6995 ; Grouse Mt., Humboldt Co., Tracy 12,923 ; 

 Rockville, w. Glenn Co., Jepson 16,303; Indian Valley, ne. Lake Co., M. S. Hazcll; Putah Creek 

 (s. bank), above Winters, Jepson 20,913; Weldon Carion, Vaca Mts., Jepson 20,908; Rutherford 

 (hills w.), Napa Co., Jepson 20,909; Mt. Diablo, Bowerman 3042; Pozo (7 mi. se.), San Luis 

 Obispo Co., Hcndrix 179. Marysville Buttes: South Peak, Jepson 20,914. Sierra Nevada: Battle 

 Creek Mdw., e. Tehama Co., J. Grinnell ; Long Valley (mts. w.), se. Lassen Co., Hanks 90; Bear 

 Valley, Nevada Co., Jepson 20, 912 ; Alder Creek near Folsom, Sacramento Co., Alice King ; Silver 

 Valley, Alpine Co., Jepson 10,094; Gwin Mine, Calaveras Co., Jepson 1793 (an e.xcellent match 

 in size, habit, pubescence and flowers for llartwcg 268, the type. — Kew Herbarium, 1906, W. L. 

 J.) ; Calaveras Grove, A. L. Grant; Duck Bar, Stanislaus River, A. L. Grant 724; Hetch-Hetchy, 

 A. L. Grant 8G6 ; Hodgdon ranch, s. Tuolumne Co., Jepson 10,521 ; Owens Creek, w. Mariposa Co., 

 Jepson 12,759; Fresno Grove, Jepson 15,995; Rogers Valley, n. of Auberry, Fresno Co., Jepson 

 12,896; Huntington Lake, Jepson 12,983; Mono Mdws., South Fork San Joaquin River, E. Fergu- 

 son 417; Cahoon Mdw., w. of Mt. Silliman, Jepson 721; Alta Mdws., Tulare Co., Newlon 39. 



