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Siskiyou and Modoc Cos. and south in the Sierra Nevada 

 Mts. to Inyo Co. 



Var. Bridges!! Gray. A small low form with few ascending 

 branches as if from a perennial root; leaves small and lobes 

 obtuse; flowers bright red. 



Yosemite, Mariposa Co., Alice Eastwood. Bear Creek, 

 Fresno Co., H. M. Hall and H. P. Chandler. 



27. Gilia congesta Hook. 



Annual, about a span high, branching from the base, branches 

 sometimes so short that it appears matted, more or less woolly- 

 pubescent; leaves three-fourths inch long or less, once or twice 

 pinnately parted, but not at the base, often appearing palmately 

 parted at the apex into three or five divisions, each about the 

 same in width as the rachis; inflorescence crowded in large 

 heads or in smaller heads arranged in a cyme, with long pedun- 

 cles; calyx one and one-half to two lines long, open-funnelform, 

 mainly hyaline, only the very short acute lobes truly herbaceous, 

 white-woolly; corolla white, three lines long, salverform, tube 

 two lines long and one-half to three-fourths line broad, throat 

 not distinguishable, lobes broad ovate, one line long; stamens 

 inserted at the sinuses, filaments capillary and very short, 

 anthers oval; stigma short, about equalling the stamens; capsule 

 smooth, oval, not equalling the calyx. 



Marble Head, Siskiyou Co. Pine Creek, Lassen Co., M. S. 

 Baker and F. Nutting. Modoc Co., M. S. Baker. Shasta Co. 

 and north into Oregon, and south in the higher Sierra Nevada 

 Mts. to Placer Co. 



28. Gilia densifolia Benth. Hugelia densifolia Benth. 



Root perennial; plant often woody above the root, usually 

 with many long branches from the base, leafy to the top; leaves 

 rigid, averaging one inch, usually ascending, occasionally 

 recurved with one or more pairs of short rigid acerose divisions; 

 inflorescence of large dense terminal- bracted clusters, slightly 

 floccose- woolly; calyx about three lines long, slender, woolly, two 

 lobes exceeding the other three, all acerose and pungent-tipped, 

 hyaline portion between the ribs very delicate and easily split, 



