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dentate, teeth prominent, spiuose prolongations of the veins of 

 the blade; inflorescence a loose panicle, with minute setaceous 

 bracts; calyx two and one-half lines long, with rounded base, 

 and cylindrical tube, lobes nearly or quite as long as the tube, 

 setaceous; corolla funnelform, about three lines long, "light 

 pink" (Watson), proper tube one line long, throat one and one- 

 half lines, lobes ovate, acute, one and one-half lines long; stamens 

 inserted at the top of the tube, unequal, anthers oblong, those of 

 the longest filaments slightly exceeding the throat; style 

 included; capsule equalling the calyx, distending it and finally 

 splitting the hyaline tube; seeds many in each cell, black. 



In deserts near Keeler, Tnyo Co., Coville and Funston. 

 Owens Valley, Inyo Co., G. P. Rixford. Waterman's, Mojave 

 Desert, San Bernardino Co., Mrs. K. Brandegee. 



7. Gilia tenuiflora Benth. 



Annual, a span to twenty inches tall, slender with simple 

 stem and loosely, paniculately branching inflorescence, glabrous 

 or nearly so below, glandular upward; largest leaves toward the 

 base, one to three inches long, often in a single basal cluster, 

 rachis very narrowly linear, bipinnatifid; inflorescence a loose 

 panicle, pedicels from very short to eight lines long, slender; 

 calyx not exceeding two lines in the flowering stage, white- 

 scarious between the ribs, lobes shorter than the tube, acute, 

 somewhat accrescent but never equalling the mature capsule; 

 corolla four lines to one inch long, slender-funnelform, tube 

 purple in the upper part, very slender, long-exserted, gradually 

 enlarging into the pale yellow throat, lobes ovate with broadly 

 acute apex; filaments inserted just below the sinuses, about half 

 as long as the lobes, anthers round; stigmas equalling the lobes; 

 capsule oblong, two to four lines long with many seeds. 



Menifee, Riverside Co., Alice King. Bear Valley, San 

 Bernardino Co., S. B. Parish. Elsewhere in Southern Cali- 

 fornia and as far north as Monterey Co. 



Var. altissima Parish. A high altitude variety, very slender, 

 with conspicuous black tack- glands on the pedicels of the inflo- 

 rescence. 



