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Common in hill country Mariposa Co. to Modoc Co., and in 

 Coast Range Mts. in Contra Costa, Solano, and Lake Cos. 

 (Plates 1 and 3.) 



11. Navarretia squarrosa Hook and Aru. Hoitzia squarrosa 



Eschscholtz. Aegochloa pungens Benth. Gilia pungens 

 Hook., Bot. Mag. t. 2977. Navarretia pungens Hook., Fl. 

 Bor. Am. ii 75. Gilia squarrosa Gray. 



Annual, a few inches to two feet high, simple or branched, 

 very viscid- pubescent and noxious-scented; leaves one and one- 

 half inches long or less, twice pinnatifid, pinnae extending in 

 various angles, very rigid and pungent but herbaceous; inflor- 

 escence large and round; calyx of five narrow-lanceolate, herba- 

 ceous ribs, scarcety united by the hyaline portion, slightly 

 irregular in length, all entire, five lines long; corolla equalling 

 the calyx, funnelform to salverform with quite ample throat; 

 lobes light or dark blue, one and one-half lines long; stamens 

 inserted near the base of the tube, unequal in length and slightly 

 so in insertion, not equalling the tube; pistil also included; cap- 

 sule oblong, pitted, many seeded. 



Common on roadsides and fields from Monterey Co. north to 

 Washington, (Plate 3.) 



12. Navarretia mellita Greene. Gilia mellita Greene. 



Annual, about a span high, branching, often diffusely so, 

 making the plant broader than high, pubescent and "sweet 

 scented" (Greene) ; leaves one and one-fourth inches long at the 

 base, smaller upward, once or twice pinnatifid, rachisand term- 

 inal segment expanded in the upper leaves and bracts, all rigid 

 and pungent; inflorescence of many small heads; calyx two and 

 one-half lines long, lobes five, entire and nearly equal, the hya- 

 line portion firm even in fruit; corolla minute, pale; stamens 

 and pistil included in the tube; capsule oval, coat very thin, 

 many seeded. 



Central California, common. Solano Co., W. L. Jepson. 

 Napa Co., E. L. Greene. Marin Co., Mrs. K. Brandegee. 

 Monterey Co., H. P. Chandler. 



