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§ 3. Leptosiphon, Endl., Benth. Corolla salverform, with the tube mostly 

 filiform and elongated ; the very short throat commonly abruptly more or less 

 cyathiform-dilated : stamens inserted in the throat or orifice : anthers short : 

 ovules numerous : annuals, mostly low or slender, with opposite narrow leaves, 

 and handsome but commonly small flowers crowded into a capitate leafy-bracted 

 cluster. (Style either very long and more or less exserted, or rather rarely short 

 and included, hi different individuals of the same species.) — Leptuslphon, Benth. 



* Palmately-leaved genuine species, hairy, leaf y-stcnimed ; commonly with leaves fascicled in the 

 axils and "all 5-7-parted; their divisions iincar-iiliform : filaments slender, exserted more or less 

 from the throat of the corolla, shorter than its entire lobes: ovules G to 10 in each cell. 

 •(— Large-flowered, and the tube of the corolla only equalling or little exceeding the obovate lobes. 

 G. densifllora, Benth. Rather stout and large, often strict: numerous divisions of the 

 leaves lilil'orni, somewhat rigid : tube of the hlac or nearly white corolla (half inch long) 

 little if at all exserted beyond the calyx, and villous-hirsute bracts. — Gray, Proc. 1. c. 

 Leptosiphon densiflorus, Benth. in Hort. Trans, viii. t. 18 ; Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1725 ; Hook. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 3578. Gilki Leptosiphon, Stcud. Nom. Varies with corolla-tube a little more 

 exserted, when it is G. (jrandljiora, Steud. & Benth. 1. c. and Leptosiphon (jrandijiorus, Benth. 

 in Bot. Reg. — California; common towards the coast. 



4_ ^^ Slender-flowered; the filiform tube of the corolla 2 to G times the length of the lobes; these 

 from 4 to less than 2 lines long, oval or ovate. Species difiicult to define. 

 G. brevicula, Gray. A span high, corymbosely branched, minutely pubescent and 

 above glandular : leaves few and short (quarter of an inch long) : tube of the corolla only 

 5 to y lines long, but much exceeding the calyx and bracts, hardly twice the length of 

 the (purple or violet) lobes: otherwise much like the next. — Proc. Am. Acad. xii. 79. — 

 Southeastern California, on the Mohave River, Pubner. 

 G. androsacea, Steud. A span to a foot high: corolla much exserted beyond the 

 hirsute or villous-ciliate bracts and subtending leaves, lilac, pink, or nearly white with yel- 

 low or dark throat; its tube an inch or less long, thrice the length of the lobes (limb 8 to 

 10 lines in diameter). — Gray, 1. c. & Bot. Calif, i. 401. L.ej>tosiphon androsaceus, Benth. in 

 Hort. Trans, viii. t. 18; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3491; Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1710. — California ; 

 common west of the Sierra Nevada. 



Var. rosacea, Gray. A dwarf and tufted form, with rose-red corolla, varying 

 however into other hues. — Bot. Calif. I.e. Leptosiphon purvijioms, var. rosaceus, Hook, 

 f. Bot. Mag. t. 5803. — Near San Francisco, Kcllo-jg. 



Var. detonsa, Gray, 1. c. Slender and almost glabrous form, the bracts and leaves 

 merely hispidulous-ciliate. — Western part of California, Brid(jes, Brewer. A less marked 

 form occurs on the borders of Nevada, Anderson. 

 G. micrantlia, Steud. Slender, a span or so high : tube of the corolla extremely 

 slender, three-fourths to inch and a half long, 4 to G times longer than the lobes ; these 2 or 

 3 lines long: pubescence of the bracts, &c., short and soft, rarely hirsute-ciliate. — Gray, 

 Proc. 1. c. excl. syn. var. rosaceus, Bot. Mag. Leptosiphon pnrvi floras & L. luteiis, Benth. in 

 Bot. Reg. Gilia micrantha & G. luteci, Benth. in DC. I. c. — California ; common through 

 the western part of the State. Flower from purplish or lilac to cream-color, sulphur-yel- 

 low, and even golden yellow (var. aurea, Benth. PI. Hartw.). 



Var. longitliba (G. longituhn, Benth. PI. Hartw. 324) is one of the larger-flowered 

 forms, apparently passing into G. androsacea. — Monterey, Hartweg, &c. 

 G. tenella, Benth. Mostly depressed, small : tube of the corolla less slender in propor- 

 tion to the size of the limb (0 to 9 lines long, the lobes only U) : bracts and leaves hispidu- 

 lous-ciliate. — PI. Hartw. .325. Leptosiphon /</rv)/or, Nutt. PI. Gamb., chiefiy. — Puget Sound 

 to Santa Barbara; California. Has been confounded with the two foregoing. Corolla dull 

 purple, or pink, with yellow throat. 

 G. ciliata, Benth. Rigid, rough, 4 to 12 inches high, the taller stems virgato: tube of 

 the corolla slightly or not at all exserted beyond the very hirsute or hispid-ciliate bracts 

 and subtending leaves (6 to lines, and the lobes only U lines long) : calyx-lobes acerosc. 

 — PI. Hartw. 1. c. ; Gray, 1. c. — California, reaching into Nevada, &c. Greyish with short 

 pubescence on the stems, and longer both rigid and softer spreading hairs fringing the 

 leaves and bracts. Corolla rose or violet, fading to white. 



