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lines long, funuelforrn, limb two lines long, lobes and throat 

 about equal, usually with dark spots at the base of the lobes; 

 stamens exserted, declined in age; capsule acute at the base 

 where the dehiscence begins, continuing half way up, the more 

 obtuse apex prominently four angled, one-seeded. 



Colusa and Lake Cos., Mrs. K. Curran. Knoxville grade to 

 Lower Lake, Lake Co., W. L. Jepson. 



16. Navarretia divaricata Greene. Gilia diraricatd Torr. in 



Gray. Proc. Am. Acad. viii, 270. 



Annual, two to four inches high, usually branching into a 

 plant as broad as high, branches slender, sparsely puberulent. 

 bracts white-pubescent; leaves few, less than one inch long, 

 entire or with few lax divisions, with very short, white-cuspidate 

 tips; bracts with three to five rigid, acerose, sharp-pointed, 

 divaricate divisions, equalling or exceeding the flowers; inflor- 

 escence of many small heads; some heads almost sessile, others on 

 very long leafless peduncles; calyx two and one-half lines long, 

 lobes entire, acerose, almost awned; corolla minute, exceeded by 

 the longer calyx lobes, tubular, one-half line long, light purplish 

 blue, tube persistent about the mature capsule; stamens and 

 pistil included in the tube; capsule not firm when mature, 

 enclosed by the corolla tube, seeds three to six in each cell. 



Sierra Nevada Mts. at 6000 to 7000 feet altitude, Modoc Co. 

 to Fresno Co. 



17. Navarretia Breweri Greene. 





 Annual, two to four inches high, branching, stems finely 



puberulent; leaves with linear rachis and long acerose pungent 

 pinnae, foliage also very finel3 r puberulent; flowers in rather 

 loose glomerules, short pedunculate; calyx three and one-half 

 lines long, lobes straight, entire, twice the tube, slightly une- 

 qual; corolla yellow, not exceeding the calyx; stamens longer 

 than the corolla; capsule slightly exceeding the calyx tube. 

 oblong, two seeds in each cell. 



Big Valley, Modoc Co., M. S. Baker and F. Nutting. Prosser 

 Creek, near Truckee, Nevada Co., C. F. Sonne. 



