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oblong-lanceolate leaves, and large salmon-colored flowers in terminal 

 and axillary heads. 



Common in open pine woods in the San Bernardino, San Jacinto 

 and Cuyamaca Mountains. 



2. NAVARRETIA R. & P. 



Glabrous and scentless or viscid-pubescent and heavy- 

 scented annual herbs, with leaves all alternate, setaceously 

 or spinosely pinnatifid, or the lowest subentire. Flowers 

 in crowded bracted clusters at the ends of the branches. 

 Calyx-tube scarious between the green angular or 

 costate segments, unequal, erect or spreading, pungent- 

 tipped or pungent-cleft, the 2 outer sometimes spinulose- 

 toothed or -cleft. Corolla-tube funnelform or salver- 

 shaped. Stamens and style exserted or included, 

 straight or declined. Capsule 1-3-celled, 1-many- 

 seeded, partially dehiscent or indehiscent. Seeds com- 

 monly mucilaginous and sending out threads containing 

 each a spiral coil. 



Herbage glabrous or nearly so; flowers nearly 



white. 1. N. prostrata. 



Herbage viscid-pubescent; flowers purple. 



Leaves narrowly linear, laciniate-pinnatifid. 2. iV. viscidula. 

 Leaves lanceolate, beset with spinose-subulate 



teeth. 3. N. atractyloides. 



\. N. prostrata (Gray) Greene. Glabrous or nearly so; flower 

 clusters sessile near the ground, the few branches radiating from 

 beneath and prostrate; leaves pinnatifid, the rachis broad and 

 strap-shaped, the segments short and spreading; calyx-tube minutely 

 white-hirsute, thin-hyaline between the stout costae, constricted 

 over the capsule, the segments spreading, 2 subulate and entire, 

 3 spinulose trifid; pericarp a transparent indehiscent utricle close- 

 fitted to the amalgamated mass of glutinous seeds, breaking trans- 

 versely or irregularly when soaked; seeds 4 in each cell. 

 {Gilia prostrata Gray.) 



In low adobe places on the mesas of the coast valley. Inglewood. 



2. N. viscidula Benth. Viscid-pubescent, at length much 

 branched, erect, 5-8 cm. high, rather stout; leaves narrowly linear 

 but firm, laciniate-pinnatifid or parted into setaceous-subulate 

 ascending lobes; the bracts ovate-dilated; flowers densely glomerate; 

 corolla violet or purple, 8-10 mm. long; capsule of firm texture, 

 dehiscent, normally 3-6-seeded. {Gilia viscidula Gray.) 



Dry places of the interior plains and foothills. May-June. 



3. N. atractyloides (Benth.) H. & A. Pubescent and very 

 viscid, rigid-branched, spreading or procumbent, 5-15 cm. long; 

 leaves ovate-lanceolate, rigidly coriaceous and in age reticulate, the 



