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Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. ii. 74. t. 161 (1840). Smaller and more 

 sleiuler than the last, the corolla only a third as large and not 

 rotate but campanulate-funnelform: filaments naked below, 

 the throat merely pul>erulent. 



From northern California to British Columbia, and east- 

 ward to the Rocky Mountains. 



7. L. riLiPES. GiUajiUpes, Benth. PL Hartw. 325 (1849): 

 G. pifsilla Tar. CaJifornica^ Gray, Syn. FL Slender, often 

 diffuse, 4 to 10 inches high, scabrous-puberulent: pedicels 

 elongated, filiform: calyx a line long, narrow-campanulate, 

 hispidulous throughout, the subulate-acerose teeth little 



shorter than the tube: corolla pale purplish, 3| lines long, 

 the limb campanulate from a very short cylindrical tube: 

 seeds about 8 in each cell of the capsule. 



A delicate but pretty species of the plains and middle 

 mountains of central California. 



8, L. PUSILLUS. Gilia imsilla, Benth. Bot. Reg. 1. c.(1833). 



More slender than the last, as large, less puberulent: pedicels 

 capillary: calyx 1| lines long, nearlj' cylindrical, 15-nerved, 

 the scarious recesses of the tube not manifest, the broadly 

 subulate teeth barely half as long as the tube, hispid-ciliolate: 

 corolla short-funnelform, little if at all exceeding the calyx: 

 seeds 3 or 4 in each cell. 



Lower California and the islands adjacent; also in South 



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m erica. 



9. L. Hakknessii. Gilia Harlaicssii, Curran, Bull. Calif. 

 Acad, i. 12 (1884); Gray, Syn. FL SuppL 407. Very slender, 

 3 to 10 inches high, nearly glabrous: pedicels capillary: 

 corolla white, a line long or more, little exceeding the calyx: 

 cells of the capsule 1-seeded: seed rather large. 



Indigenous to the middle and higher Sierras of California, 

 thence northward to Washington and eastward toward the 

 Rocky Mountains. 



10. L. BoLANDERT. Gilia Bolandei'i^ Gray, Proc. Am. 



