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Var. detonsa Gray. A depauperate form from dry hills and 

 poor soil, glomerule more loosely three- to five-flowered or only 

 one. 



Found small and one-flowered in the Berkeley hills, Alameda 

 Co., in the same square yard with large five-floweretl forms. 

 San Luis Obispo Co., Mrs. R. W. Summers. 



Var. eximia. Annual, six inches to one foot high, pubescence 

 white- woolly on the petioles, close and long on the calyces; calyx 

 three lines long, quite broad, herbaceous ribs projecting beyond 

 the tube in lanceolate acute lobes one line long, spaces between 

 purple to red, hyaline, conspicuous; corolla tube one and one- 

 half lines long, white, throat two lines long, open-funnelform, 

 lobes two lines long, ovate, somewhat acute, they and the throat 

 deep purple. 



Evergreen, Santa Clara Co., J. B. Davy, 1883. San Luis 

 Obispo Co., Mrs. R. W. Summers, 1892. 



Var. alba. Annual, in general habit like delicate forms of 

 G. multicaulis but differing in the following respects: entire 

 plant glabrous ; calyx distinctly hyaline between the ribs ; corolla 

 pure white throughout, tubular-funnelform, and but slightly 

 exceeding the calyx. 



Type, Los Gatos, Santa Clara Co., A. L. Jaggar. 



21. Gilia abrotanifolia Nutt., Erythea, iii, 104. 



Annual, tall, glabrous, or glandular-pubescent, with few 

 branches or simple; leaves bi- and tri-pinnately dissected; in- 

 florescence large, a rather open cluster, on a long naked peduncle; 

 calyx mainly hyaline, only the ribs and lobes herbaceous, long 

 and narrow; corrolla deep blue, half to three-quarter- inch long 

 and funnelform, not abruptly dilated; lobes oblong; stamens 

 shorter than, or equalling the corolla lobes; style often much 

 exserted; capsule long-oblong. 



Claremont, Los Angeles Co., H. P. Chandler. San Luis 

 Obispo Co., Mrs. Blochman. Not uncommon in Southern 

 California. 



22. Gilia Chamissonis Greene. 



Annual, a span to two feet high, simple or branched, glabrous 

 or puberulent ; inflorescence on long naked peduncles in crowded 



