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PITTONIA. 



18. L. ANDROSACEUS. Leptosipliou nndrosaceus, Bentli. 

 Bot. Reg. xis. under t. 1622 (1833), and Trans. Hort. Soc. viii. 

 t. 18; Lindl. Bot. Reg. xx. t. 1710. Stoutish, 6 to 15 inches 

 high, the internodes (about 4) elongated: lowest leaves 3-, 

 uppermost 5 to 7-parted, the divisions oblanceolate, those of 

 the floral subulate-lanceolate, all acute, rather strongly hispid- 

 ciliate: corolla more than an incli long, the slender purple 

 tube 9 or 10 lines, the short turbinate throat about a line long, 

 very dark purple with a yellow border, the broad rounded 

 or somewhat cuspidate segments lilac-purple (occasionally 

 white), 3 or 4 lines long: style and filaments little surpassing 

 the throat of the corolla. 



Common in western California, but on wooded hillsides 

 only; a well marked species, for this group, the flowers very 

 large, always either lilac-purijle of white, the throat of the 

 corolla invariably purple in its lower part even in the albino 

 state. The tube of the corolla is short in proportion to the 

 size of the limb as compared with the next species; and this is 



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the species which is at all helpful to the identification. The 

 figures cited are, on the other hand, very unsatisfactory. 

 Only the pale-blue flowered specimen of the group shown in 

 the Horticultural Society Transactions seems to represent 

 this species. The other two would more naturally be taken 

 to represent the next. 



IJ. L. PARViFLORus. LeptosipJion parv{florus,'Beiith.Bot 

 Reg. xix. 1. c. L. luteiis, Beuth. 1. c. ? Gilia micranlha, Stend. 

 ^luch more slender than the last, and scarcely as tall, the 

 internodes as long, the leaves with narrower segments: tube 

 of corolla very slender, 9 or 10 lines long; throat yellow; seg- 

 ments oval, 2 or 3 lines long, mostly pale yellow or white, 

 tinged with red or brown on the outside: style and filaments 

 half or more than half as long as the corolla-limb. 



Abundant on exposed sunny slopes throughout the western 

 part of the State, and in the foothills of the Sierra. The 

 name lideus on Bentham's page has precedence over p«rn- 



