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to eight lines long, erect, or spreading when long, segments 

 linear- acerose, often recurved, pungent, much crowded on the 

 stem or one-half inch apart, but usually obscuring the stem, 

 rarely fascicled in the axils; inflorescence loosely clustered 

 toward the summit of the branches; calyx three to six lines 

 long, very slender, herbaceous ribs extending into acerose, pun- 

 gent lobes about one-half the length of the tube, hyaline portion 

 between the ribs revolute or distended, resembling Linanthus; 

 corolla nine to fourteen lines long, funnelform, tube sometimes 

 shorter than the calyx but more often considerably exserted, 

 lobes as long as the tube, narrow and truncate, not spreading; 

 stamens equally inserted near the top of the tube, filaments not 

 more than one line long, anthers oblong; style one line long, 

 stigmas the same length; capsule oblong, tapering at both ends, 

 about equalling the tube of the calyx; seeds several. 



San Bernardino and San Jacinto Mts., and elsewhere in 

 Southern California at high elevations, from 8500 to 11,500 feet. 

 Sierra Nevada Mts., at similar elevations (Mt. Goddard, above 

 Yosemite, Bear Valley, and northward) . 



Var. Hookeri Gray. Perennial, growing taller than the 

 species, not matted; leaves not more than one-half inch long, the 

 middle division twice the lateral ones, rigid, acerose, especially 

 the lower leaves fascicled in the axils, covered with white 

 pubescence, which is sometimes in tiny tufts, herbage blue- green 

 while that of the species is green; flowers not restricted to the 

 summits of the branches. 



Found at lower levels than the species, 6500 to 8300 feet, in 

 the mountains of Southern California. Also in the Sierra 

 Nevada Mts., eastern Oregon and Arizona. 



Var. Hallii. Gilia Hallii Parish. Perennial, flowering 

 branches about one foot long; some of the leaves opposite, 

 becoming alternate at the summit, much fascicled, palmately 

 three-parted, divisions very pungent, acerose, the middle one 

 twice or thrice the lateral ones; flowers less than one inch long, 

 loosely clustered at the summit of the branches or terminating 

 the branchlets half way down the main stem; corolla lobes oblan- 

 ceolate; stamens nearly sessile. 



