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Var. floribunda Gray. Large, dense, floccose heads of large, 

 well exserted flowers. 



Corral Hollow, Brewer, and elsewhere in the South Coast 

 Ranges. 



Var. floccosa. (r. floccosa Gray. Lower and more pro- 

 fusely branching than the species; corolla not such a bright, 

 clear blue; stamens inserted just below the sinuses or lower, 

 anthers about one-half line long. 



A possible species but running in so closely to G. virgata 

 that the characters are not distinct. Found in the mountains 

 with G. virgata and at lower levels, also eastward into Nevada 

 and Arizona. 



30. Gilia sparsiflora Eastwood. 



Annual, a span to fifteen inches high, slender branches above 

 from the axils of distant alternate leaves, stems very minutely 

 glandular-pubescent, below glabrous; leaves few, averaging one 

 inch in length, with recurved margins, thus appearing filiform, 

 usually entire, occasionally with a pair of short pinnae near the 

 base, these and the main segment cuspidate-tipped, bracts like 

 the leaves but smaller; inflorescence solitary and pediceled when 

 axillary, a cluster of two to three flowers when terminal on the 

 main stem, and subsessile; calyx three to four lines long, densely 

 white- woolly, lobes aristate- subulate, longer than the tube, very 

 slightly unequal; corolla four to five and one-half lines long, 

 funnelform, white with narrow dark spots in the throat, lobes 

 elliptical, about two lines long; stamens protruding through the 

 throat but no more, anthers a line long, narrowly sagittate, 

 white; capsule oblong, nearly equalling the calyx, "seeds few, 

 oblique at the base, three sides generally with rounded angles, 

 developing mucilage and spiricles" (Alice Eastwood). 



Collected by Alice Eastwood in King's River Canon in July, 

 1899, and also along Bubb's Creek Trail. 



31. Gilia lutescens Steud. Kugelia lutea Benth. 



Annual, four to eight inches high, with few branches in the 

 specimens studied, nearly glabrous below, densely white- woolly 

 in the inflorescence; leaves six to fourteen lines long, narrowly 



