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broad; the obovate entire lobes white, marked with 7 deep blue 

 veinlets; stamens nearly as long as the corolla-lobes; filaments with a 

 dense pilose ring near the base; ovules 6-8 in each cell. {Gilia 

 liniflorus Benth.) 



Frequent on plains and foothills nearly throughout the state, but 

 known within our limits only on low hills near Trabuco Canyon, 

 Santa Ana Mountains. 



7. L. parviflorus (Benth.) Greene. Stems slender, branched 

 from the base, 8-15 cm. high; leaf-segments linear or narrowly 

 oblanceolate; corolla-tube very slender, 18-25 mm. long; throat 

 yellow; lobes oval, 4-6 mm. long, mostly pale yellow or nearly white, 

 tinged with red or brown on the outside; style and filaments half 

 or more than half as long as the corolla-limb. {Leptosiphon parvi- 

 florus Benth.; Gilia micrantha Steud.) 



Common on the plains and foothills throughout our range in 

 sandy soil. March-April. 



8. L. bicolor (Nutt.) Greene. Very near the last, but small, 

 5-7 cm. high; flowers rose-purple, the elongated corolla-tube 12-18 

 mm. long, the limb 4-6 mm. broad. {Leptosiphon bicolor Nutt.; 

 Gilia tenella Benth.) 



Wilson's Peak, Davidson. 



9. L. ciliatus (Benth.) Greene. Stems rigid, strict, 1-2 dm. 

 high, scabrous-pubescent; internodes long; leaves with 5-9 linear, 

 rigidly and densely ciliate segments; corolla rose color, scarcely 

 exceeding the floral leaves, its limb 4 mm. broad or less. {Gilia 

 ciliata Benth.) 



Wilson's Peak, growing in open grassy places among the pines. 

 I have not seen Davidson's specimens, but I strongly suspect that 

 they belong to this species rather than to L. bicolor, as listed by 

 him. May-July. 



10. L. floribundus (Gray) Greene. Stems erect, from a woody 

 much branched base, 1-3 dm. high; leaves 15-25 mm. long, slender, 

 acerose; flowers scattered or in loose clusters, on slender pedicels 

 sometimes exceeding the flowers; calyx 6 mm. long, mainly herba- 

 ceous, the lobes equaling the tube, cuspidate; corolla 1 cm. long, 

 the throat yellow with dark brown at the base, the lobes 5 mm. 

 long, obovate, white. 



Southern California and Arizona; Saddleback, Santa Ana Moun- 

 tains. 



Family 89. HYDROPHYLLACEAE. Water-leaf 

 Family. 



Herbs or rarely shrubs, mostly hirsute pubescent or 

 scabrous, with alternate or basal, rarely opposite leaves, 

 and perfect regular 5-parted flowers in scorpioid cymes, 

 spikes or rarely solitary. Calyx deeply cleft or divided, 

 the sinuses sometimes appendaged. Corolla funnel- 



