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of the narrow ribs, longer than the scarious tube, even thrice 

 its length; corolla broad-funnel form, tube two lines long, dark 

 brown, throat ample, yellow, lobes four to six lines long, broad- 

 obovate, margins fringed, purple, pink or white; stamens inserted 

 at the top of the tube, equalling the throat, anthers small, oblong; 

 capsule three lines long, exceeding the tube of the calyx, bursting 

 it, ovules many, seed-coat pitted. 



Common on the western side of the state from San Diego Co. 

 to Santa Barbara Co. 



"). Linanthus liniflorus Greene. Gilia liniflora Benth. G.phar- 

 naceoides Benth. L. plmrnaceoides Greene. G. liniflorus 

 var. pnarnaceoides Gray. 



Slender annual, from three inches to two feet high, usuallj" 

 about one foot, branches dichotomous or alternate, forming a 

 wide angle with the stem, stem and branches filiform, glabrous, 

 or with very few scattered hairs; pubescence of herbage short 

 and scabrous, rarely glandular on the calyx; leaves opposite 

 below, alternate above, lower five to six-parted, divisions about 

 three-fourths inch long, slender and with revolute margins and 

 cuspidate tips, divisions fewer and shorter upwards on the 

 branches, those of branchlets simple and minute; flowers about 

 one-half inch long and as broad as long, scattered, on capillary 

 pedicels varying from a line or two to one and one-fourth inches 

 in length; calyx about two lines long, rarely longer, cam- 

 panulate, segments about equalling the tube, narrow-lanceolate 

 and cuspidate-tipped; corolla white or purplish, tube about one 

 line long, cylindrical, throat one line long, broadening rapidly, 

 lobes broad-obovate, three to four lines long; stamens inserted 

 below the sinuses, reaching about half way up the lobes, a pilose 

 ring at the base of the filaments; anthers round, sometimes 

 declined; style and stigma slightly exceeding the stamens; stigma 

 one-half line long, three-parted; capsule about one and one-half 

 lines long, tapering at the base; seeds oblong, six in each 

 cell. 



Foothills and plains along the coast from San Diego to San 

 Mateo and Santa Clara Cos. Specimens from the central coun- 

 ties much less delicate than southern forms. (Plate 7.) 



