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5. G. inconspicua Doug]. Stems simple or branching from 

 the base, often somewhat woolly when young, and viscid-glandular 

 above, IS— 3f> cm. high; lower leaves bipinnatifid, the upper pin- 

 nately-parted or pinnatifid, becoming small and entire; flowers 

 somewhat crowded and subst-ssile or at length loosely panicled ; 

 corolla violet or purplish, 6-15 mm. long, narrowly funnelform, 

 the tube scarcely equaling the calyx. 



Frequent in the chaparral belt of all the hills and mountains. 



** Leaves, at least the outline, entire or pinnatifid; flowers scattered, 

 rarely clustered in the first. 



6. G. gilioides (Benth.) Greene. Loosely branching, erect or 

 diffuse, 2-6 dm. high, commonly villous and glandular throughout ; 

 basal leaves and the lower cauline leaves pinnately-parted into 

 narrowly oblong or lanceolate divisions, or rarely all so divided, 

 or the upper palmately divided into 3-5 obovate or lanceolate 

 divisions; corolla 8-12 mm. long, salver-shaped, blue-purple ; sta- 

 mens unequally inserted ; capsule globose ; seeds 1-2 in each cell. 

 (Collomia gilioides Benth.) 



Frequent in shady places in the chaparral belt throughout our range 



7. G. latiflora exilis Gray. Diffusely paniculate-branched 

 above, 3-4 dm. high, glabrous below or the young parts some- 

 what arachnoid-tomentose, more or less glandular above; basal 

 and lower leaves simply pinnatifid, linear-lanceolate, 3-5 cm. 

 long, with short ovate or triangular and cuspidate-tipped lobes, 

 these often enlarged and toothed or lobed; the cauline few, 

 becoming entire and subulate above; paniculate cymes very 

 loose; flowers mostly on elongated almost capillary pedicels, 

 about 1 cm. long, dilated-funnelform, abruptly contracted below 

 into a narrow tube, which equals or slightly exceeds the calyx, 

 its lobes rounded-obovate, purple, the throat yellowish below; 

 capsule obovoid. 



Wilson's Peak under pines, and similar places throughout the San Gabriel 

 Mountains. 



8. G. tenuiflora altissima Parish. Loosely paniculate, branch- 

 ed above, 5-8 dm. high, hispid pubescent below, glandular above; 

 basal leaves 4-6 cm. long, bipinnately parted or divided; the 

 upper becoming simple, small and entire; branches loosely few- 

 flowered; pedicels shorter than the flowers; corolla 2.5-3 cm. 



