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b. Plant not exceeding two feet; corolla funnelform, not exceeding 

 one inch. 33. G. pungens. 



H. Subgenus Langloisia. Rigid low annuals of the desert; leaves pin- 

 nately divided, some of the pinnae reduced to bristles; flowers 

 scattered, solitary, without bracts; calyx tube splitting to the 

 base. 



a. Leaves with narrow raehis enlarging gradually toward the apex ; 

 corolla bilabiate. 



1. Corolla only slightly irregular, lobes much shorter than the 



tube. 34. G. Scholtii. 



2. Corolla very irregular, lobes equalling the tube. 



35. G. Mattheirsii. 

 l>. Leaves abruptly dilated at the apex; corolla regular. 



36. G. setosissima. 



1. Gilia gracilis Hook. Collomia gracilis Dongl. Phlox gracilis 

 Greene. 



A variable annual, an inch to 'a span high, simple or dif- 

 fusely branching, entirely covered with fine pubescence and 

 some glandular hairs; leaves all entire, opposite below, becoming 

 alternate above, averaging an inch in length and two to three 

 lines in width; inflorescence mostly two-flowered in the axils, 

 flowers on equal pedicels; calyx three to four lines long, very 

 slender, ribs closely approximated in the flowering stage, slender 

 .lobes equalling or exceeding the tube; corolla usually very 

 slightly exceeding the calyx by the tiny spreading limb, tube 

 very slender, equalling the calyx or slightly exceeding it, white 

 or yellow, limb rotate, dark blue or purple; stamens unequally 

 inserted above the center of the tube, filaments very short, 

 anthers narrowly oblong; capsule round to oval, seeds one in 

 each cell. 



From San Diego Co. to Modoc Co., both in the Sierra Nevada 

 Mts. and the Coast Ranges. 



2. Gilia depressa M. E. Jones. 



Annual, one to three inches high, branched, roughish 

 pubescent; leaves few, alternate, linear to narrow-lanceolate, 

 mucronate-tipped, bracts broader lanceolate, but more acute, 

 and cuspidate-tipped; inflorescence with two to several flowers in 

 a cluster; calyx about two lines long, very densely white-pubes- 

 cent, lobes acerose, very acute, almost awned, recurved, nearly 



