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Keene, Kern Co., K. Brandegee 98; San Francisco, K. Brandegee Ix. There is no definite 

 constancy yet worked out between filament breadth and other characters. The ground color 

 of the petals is mostly cream color with a yellow phase at base; the outer 3 are often deep 

 yellow, egg-yellow, or egg-yellow and eream in varying proportions, or with a yellow central 

 splotch. Sometimes the flowers are white with yellow center, sometimes the flowers fade to 

 rose-pink. The striking color form, var. pulchellum Jepson n. comb., has the outer petals 



yellow, the inner white, but this 

 color scheme is not correlated defi- 

 nitely with any other characters ; 

 it occurs on the Sonoma Co. and 

 San Francisco Co. coasts. 



Refs, MECONELLA LINEARIS Jep- 

 son. Platy stigma linear e Benth. 

 Trans. HoVt. Soc. ser. 2, 1:407 

 (1835), type a garden plant (Cal. 

 seed, Douglas) ; Hook. Ic. PI. t. 38 

 (1836), filaments linear-filiform, 

 Monterey, Douglas; Jepson, Fl. W. 

 Mid. Cal. 206 (1901). Hesperomc- 

 con affine Greene, Pitt. 5:147 

 (1903), type loc. Exeter, Eastwood, 

 is intermediate between the species 

 and H. platystemon Greene, that is 

 the filaments are filiform, the outer 

 dilated. H. platystemon Greene I.e. 

 148 (1903), type loc. San Fran- 

 cisco, Kellogg. H. strictum Greene 

 I.e. 149 (1903), type loc. San Luis 

 Obispo, Parry. H. angustum 

 Greene l.c. 149 (1903), type loc. 

 Antioch sand hills, Greene. H. 

 luteolum Greene l.c. 150 (1903), 

 based on spms. from Ben Lomond 

 (Santa Cruz Co.) and Castroville 

 (Monterey Co.), T. Brandegee. 

 Var. PULCHELLUM Jepson. H. pul- 

 chellum Greene Lc. 150 (1903), 

 based on Bot. Reg. t. 1954 (1837), 

 an illustration of a garden plant, 

 the seed originally from Fort Ross, 

 Sonoma Co. ; ef . also Hook. Bot. 

 Mag. t 3575 (1837). 



2. M. oregana Nutt. var. 

 calif ornica Jepson n. comb. 

 (Fig. 114.) Very slender, 

 erect, branching, 4 to 7 inches 

 high, glabrous throughout; 

 leaves entire, the basal and 

 lower ones elliptic to obovate- 

 spatulate, ^ to 1 or 1^2 inches 

 long, commonly contracted to 

 a petiole, the upper cauline 

 oblanceolate to linear ; pedun- 

 cles 2 to 3 inches long, erect 

 in anthesis, in fruit deflexed 

 almost horizontally but the 

 capsule vertical or nearly so; 



sepals often reddish; petals white, elliptic to oblong, 2 to 5 lines long; stamens 

 12, unequal, in two series, the outer shorter ; filaments filiform or slightly dilated 

 upwards; capsule linear, twisted, y 2 to 1 (rarely 11/2) inches long. 



Sierra Nevada foothills from Shasta Co. to Amador Co. ; San Francisco Bay 

 region ; extending south in the Sierra foothills and to cismontane Southern Cali- 

 fornia in slightly modified forms. 



a 



Fig. 113. MECONELLA LINEARIS Jepson. 

 b, capsule, X 1. 



a, habit, X 1 : 



