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ties, leaves dilated at the apex, but not abruptly so; inflorescence 

 scattered or slightly congested; calyx two to two and one-halt' 

 lines long; corolla tube two and one-half to three lines long, 

 one-half line wide, cylindrical, throat small, limb strongly bila- 

 biate, lobes narrow, dentate, purple, or white, streaked with 

 purple or red; stamens strongly incurved, much exserted; seeds 

 eleven to twelve. 



Near Dry Lake, Rosamond, Kern Co., J. B. Davy. Smith 

 Mt., Riverside Co., H. M. Hall. Distributed as G. Schottii from 

 Inyo Co. by Dr. Matthews, 1871; Mohave Desert by Palmer, 

 Lemmon, Parish, Pringle. Near Newhall by Nevin. 



36. Gilia setosissima Gray. Navarretia setosissima Torr. and 

 Gray. Navarretia Schottii Torr. Gilia Schottii Watson. 

 Langloisia setosissima Greene. 



Annual, an inch or two high, branching into a mat, slightly 

 roughish-puberulent; leaves one-half inch long, abruptly dilated 

 at the apex which is three-lobed, pinnately divided below, the 

 pinnae reduced to long white bristles usually double; calyx four 

 and one-half lines long, including the bristles; corolla six to 

 nine lines long, white, tube four to six lines long and three- 

 fourths line wide, throat almost none, lobes three to four lines 

 long, oblanceolate, acutish; stamens inserted in the upper part 

 of the tube, reaching half way up the lobes, erect, anthers 

 oblong. 



An early and depauperate plant from th.e deserts of south- 

 eastern California, western Arizona and southern Utah, first 

 collected by Coulter. 



One specimen from Arizona, N. C. Wilson. It will there- 

 fore probably be found in the desert region of Southern California . 



LINANTHUS BENTH. 



Leaves opposite and palmately parted, or rarely entire and 

 linear; calyx with well marked hyaline spaces between the her- 

 baceous ribs, which are prolonged into five equal lobes; flowers 

 solitary or in terminal clusters or heads; stamens equally 

 inserted and usually of equal length; seeds usually many in 

 each cell. 



