AMERICAN rOLEMONIACE^. 257 



14. L. DEMissus. Gilia demissa, Gray, Proc. Am, Acad, 

 viii. 2G3 (1870); AYlieeler's Eep. 1. 19. Near tlie last, but less 

 pubescent, some of tlie leaves simple: calyx 5-partecl: corolla 

 smaller, with obovate obtuse lobes and a naked throat. 



Southeastern California and adjacent Arizona, 



15. L. AUEEUS. Gilia aiirea, Nutt. PL Gamb. 155. t. 12 

 (1843); Gray, Syn, Fl. ii. 138. Diffusely branched, 2 to 6 

 inches high: leaf-segments narrowly linear, 3 lines long, his- 

 pidulous: pedicels seldom longer than the flower: corolla 

 open-funnelform, golden yellow, the rounded obovate widely 

 spreading lobes about as long as the obconical throat and 

 short tube: filaments inserted just beloAv the sinuses, glab- 

 rous at base: seeds about 10 in each cell. 



Southern California, anTl eastward to Texas. 



16. L. Lemmoni. Gilia Lemmoni, Gray, Syn. Fl. ii. 394 

 (1878). A span high, widely branching, hirsutely pubescent: 

 leaves shorter than the internodes: flowers solitary or few in 

 each axil and subsessile, but at tlie ends of the branches more 

 densely clustered: calyx turblnate-prismatic, strongly 5-cos- 

 tate; lobes acerose-subulate, equalling the throat of the yel- 

 lowish short- funnelform corolla: capsule many-seeded. 



Mountains of Kern Co., Calif., and southward. 



17. L. Eattani. Gilia Ruttani, Gray, Syn. Fl. Suppl. 407 

 (1886). A span or two in height, erect, sparingly branched, 

 puberulent above: flowers scattered on naked filiform elon- 

 gated pedicels: corolla salverform, white or whitish with yel- 

 low throat; the slender tube a third to a half inch long. 



Lake Co., Calif., Eattan. Suspected by Dr. Gray, as a 

 possible hybrid. 



* * * Stem not dichoiomons, the floicers conjmhose-capitate 



at its summit; leaves i)ahnaiisect; corolla mostly 



saZi:e?/or?7z.— Leptosiphon, Beuth. 



4. 



-^Corolla salverform, the slender tube long-exserted. 



