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linear, entire below, usually three- parted near the inflorescence 

 which is congested in small heads at and near the ends of 

 branches; calyx two to three lines long, slender, hyaline, tube 

 very thin, lobes shorter than the tube, ending in delicate white 

 bristles; corolla. sulphur-yellow, tube usually included, one and 

 one-half to two and one-half lines long, lobes ovate to oblong; 

 stamens about equalling the corolla or slightly exserted, anthers 

 narrow-linear, nearly one line long. 



Mountains north of San Luis Obispo, J. G. Lemmon. Soledad, 

 Monterey Co., Mrs. K. Brandegee. Jolon, Monterey Co., Alice 

 Eastwood. 



32. Gilia Californica Beuth. Leptodactylon Calif orni cum Hook. 



and Arn. 



Shrubby perennial, at times reaching four feet in height, 

 branches, bracts and calyces puberulent; leaves glabrous, pal- 

 mately parted into three to five divisions, rigid, cuspidate-tipped, 

 two to three lines long, more or less fascicled in the axils, and 

 crowded on the stem, alternate; inflorescence single and borne 

 near the ends of branches and closely massed; calyx four to 

 six lines long, slender, ribs strong, and projecting in pungent 

 acerose lobes about half the tube, hyaline portion well marked 

 as in Linanthus; corolla twelve to fifteen lines long, salverform 

 tube exceeding the calyx, sometimes twice its length, throat very 

 short, lobes large, obovate, the whole pink to purple; stamens 

 inserted on the tube above the middle, filaments short, anthers 

 long-oblong; style almost none, stigmas one and one-half lines 

 long, at the very base of the tube; capsule exceeding the tube of 

 the calyx but not its lobes, rounded at the base, smaller at the 

 apex, walls very firm, cells many-seeded. 



In the mountains from San Luis Obispo Co. to San Diego Co. 

 A very viscid form with longer leaves is found near Los Angeles. 



33. Gilia pungens Benth. G. pungens and O. Hookeri Benth. 



G. pungens var. caespitosa, and var. squarrosa Gray. 



Perennial, often matted so as to resemble Phlox Douglasii or 

 taller, with long branches, glandular-viscid, pubescent to nearly 

 glabrous; leaves three-parted to the middle or a little more, three 



