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not exceeding one inch, usually not exceeding the calyx; 

 flowers sometimes fragrant, calyx two to three lines long, lobes 

 short, scarious spaces between the ribs conspicuous; calyx 

 becoming larger in fruit, the lobes equalling the capsule, but 

 finally splitting at the sinuses; corolla usually one-half mch long 

 or more, tube cylindrical, yellow at the base and purple at the 

 top, little or much exceeding the calyx, ample throat purple at 

 the base, white at the top with yellow markings, lobes broad, 

 ovate, purple; stamens inserted in the sinuses, about one-half 

 as long as the lobes, anthers round, yellow; stigmas purple, 

 nearly equalling the lobes; capsule three to four lines long, 

 smaller at the apex than at the base, pitted seeds many in each 

 cell. 



Antelope Valley, Southern California, J. B. Daw, No. 2178. 

 Winchester, Riverside Co., H. M. Hall. The type specimen 

 is in the Herb, of the University of California, collected by Mr. 

 Davy and named by him to indicate its fragrance which char- 

 acter does not prove to be constant. (Plate 5). 



12. Gilia leptomeria Gray. 



Coming between G. Davyi and G. iuconspicua is this rare 

 California species, with strap- shaped, toothed leaves similar to 

 G. Davyi and very small corollas usually less exserted and with 

 smaller lobes than G. inconspicua. 



Kingman, Arizona, N. Wilson. Type locality, mountain 

 valleys of Nevada and Utah. Byrne's Spring, San Bernardino 

 Co., S. B. Parish. 



13. Gilia inconspicua Dougl. 



Annual, a span to two feet high, branching profusely from 

 the base, or with one straight stem branching into a bracted 

 inflorescence; stems glabrous below, leaves slightly puberulent, 

 stems of the inflorescence minutely glandular; leaves one to 

 two and one-half inches long at the base of the stem, pin- 

 natifid and the pinnae three to eight lines long, usually again 

 pinnatifid or toothed; flowers loosely panicled, pedicels not 

 exceeding one inch, usually much shorter; calyx one to two lines 

 long in the flower, lobes equal to or shorter than the tube, scari- 

 ous between the ribs, in age very slightly accrescent, usually 



