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is of terminal and axillary heads; calyx four lines long, with four 

 acerose segments, two long and two short or sometimes five 

 parted; corolla five to six lines long, tube white, about equalling 

 the calyx, lobes four or five, obovate to oblong, capsule frequently 

 only two celled; ovules one or two in each cell. 



Lake Co. Solano Co. Alameda Co. Two specimens from 

 Lake Co. more lax and leafy than most forms of Navarretia with 

 leaf -like bracts about the head but with large, wholly yellow, 

 funnelform corollas. 



5. Navarretia nigellaeformis Greene. 



Annual, in the habit of N. cotulaefolia but the bracts, if not 

 the leaves, more rigid, heads quite large and much bracted, the 

 bracts compound-pinnatifid, the pinnae white-setaceous-tipped; 

 calyx five lines long, slender, tube obscure, two lobes much 

 exceeding the other three and divided; corolla ample funnelform, 

 bright yellow with five dark purple or red spots in the throat, 

 little exceeding the calyx; capsule two celled, two seeds in each 

 cell. 



Butte Co., Mrs. C. C. Bruce. Black's, Yolo Co. Merced City. 

 Willows, Colusa Co., J. B. Davy. Porterville, Tulare Co. Mrs. 

 K. Brandegee. San Miguel, Monterey Co., A. Norton. San 

 Luis Obispo Co., M. M. Miles. 



6. Navarretia prolifera Greene. 



Annual, from two to six inches high, simple or sparsely 

 branched, branches usually starting just beneath the primary 

 inflorescence, almost naked and glabrous; bracts and caryces 

 woolly pubescent, "viscid" (Greene); leaves an inch long or 

 more, filiform, lax, but with setaceous-tipped segments; bracts 

 shorter but with longer segments, rigid and pungent, exceeding 

 the flowers in the small heads; calyx three lines long, with five 

 nearly equal, acerose teeth about equalling the hyaline tube; 

 corolla twice the calyx, tube yellow, expanding into an ample 

 throat, lobes dark purple, one line long; stamens inserted in the 

 upper part of the tube, exserted, but little if at all exceeding the 

 lobes, anthers oval; pistil exceeding the stamens, curving between 

 the lobes; "capsule many seeded" (Greene). 



