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Amador Co., Mrs. K. Curran, and Tulare Co., T. J. Patter- 

 son, whence the types. 



7. Navarretia intertexta Hook. Oilia intertexta Steudel. Aego- 



cTiloa intertexta Benth. 



Annual, three inches to one foot in height, simple or branched, 

 usually robust; retrose pubescence on the stem usually dense, 

 white; leaves once or twice pinnatifid, lax at the base, becoming 

 rigid with bristle-like pinnae above, bracts especially rigid with 

 acerose, pungent lobes; inflorescence in terminal heads often 

 quite large, one inch in diameter; calyx three and one-half lines 

 long, with five unequal but entire, stout, very rigid lobes, term- 

 inating in white bristles; corolla white, tube exceeding the longest 

 calyx segment, lobes about one to two lines long; stamens and 

 style much exserted. anthers minute, oblong; capsule three-celled 

 and many seeded. 



Common through the Sierra Nevada and Coast Range moun- 

 tains from Shasta Co. to San Diego Co. 



8. Navarretia setiloba Coville and Funston. 



Annual, six inches or less high, branching, viscid- puberulent 

 throughout, with few gland-tipped hairs above; leaves about one 

 inch long, pinnatifid, the pinnae of the lower half of the leaf 

 simple or toothed acerose lobes, spinescent-tipped, those of the 

 upper half small, with sharp teeth on the expanded blade which 

 tapers at both ends; bracts similar except for the expanded, 

 hyaline base, thus leaving a very narrow central portion, bracts 

 exceeding the calyces; calyx four lines long, lobes' subequal, 

 rarely toothed, herbaceous except the setaceous tips, about half 

 the tube which is entirely coriaceous; corolla five to six lines 

 long, tube slender, twice the calyx, limb comparatively large, 

 two and one-half to three lines across, purple; capsule shorter 

 than the calyx tube, round at the base, acute at the apex, one 

 seeded ( f ) . 



Between Kernville and Havilah, Kern Co., "Death Valley 

 Expedition," Coville and Funston. Templeton, San Luis Obispo 

 Co., J. B. Davy. 



