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18. Navarretia subuligera Greene. 



Annual, three or four inches high, nearly simple and but 

 slightly puberulent; leaves nearly an inch long with linear rachis, 

 four or five pair of acerose pinnae, the terminal one long, ^rigid, 

 bracts with broader rachis, sometimes ovate dilated, pinnae 

 spinose, very rigid, usually double, divided to the base, or two- 

 or three-parted; calyx three lines long, two lobes much longer 

 and broader than the other three; corolla tube equalling the 

 calyx, limb small, exserted. 



Type, Amador Co., M. E. Curran in the California Academy 

 of Sciences. 



19. Navarretia viscidula Benth. Gilia viscidula Gray. 



Annual, from one to eight inches high, usually branching, 

 pubescent, sometimes viscid; leaves an inch or two long, slender 

 but not lax, becoming broader upward, rachis serrated, or divided 

 into short, setaceous pinnae; bracts considerably dilated in some 

 cases; flowers in medium sized terminal heads; calyx three 

 to three and one-half lines long, segments lanceolate, all seta- 

 ceous, two of them toothed, the rest entire; corolla twice the 

 calyx, tube exceeding the calyx lobes by one-half line, gradually 

 expanding into quite an ample, yellow throat, lobes broad ovate, 

 two lines long, purple; stamens inserted in the sinuses, about 

 equalling the corolla, anthers purple; pistil equalling the stamens; 

 capsule "normally three to six seeded" (Greene). 



Common in the hills of Napa, Solano, Marin Cos., and south 

 to San Diego Co. 



'10. Navarretia atractyloides Hook, and Am. AegocMoa atrac- 



tyloides Benth. Gilia atractyloides Steud. 

 Annual, one to eight inches high, the larger forms diffusely 

 branching, puberulent and "viscid heavy scented" (Greene); 

 herbage often purplish ; leaves ovate-lanceolate to linear-lanceolate 

 in outline, coriaceous and very rigid, with several long entirely 

 spinose teeth; flowers in small terminal and axillary clusters, 

 hardly capitate; calyx three lines long, lobes five, unequal, entire 

 or toothed, tube obscure; corolla four to five lines long, dark 

 purple, open-funnelform, limb comparatively ample; stamens 



