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6. Linanthus filipes Greene. Gilia filipes Benth. 



Very slender annual, occasionally simple but usually more or less 

 diffusely and dichotomously branched, branches filiform, diverg- 

 ing, often making the plant broader than high; sparse softjwhite 

 pubescence on the stem and branches, longer and thicker at the 

 base of the branches, numerous short ascending bristles on the 

 leaves and calyces make those organs very scabrous, especially 

 the leaves; leaves about one-fourth inch long, entire or three- to 

 five-parted, divisions filiform, cuspidate-tipped; flowers small, 

 about one-fourth inch long, numerous, on slender capillary pedi- 

 cels from one-half to one inch long, terminal and axillary; calyx 

 usually about one line long, extremes one-half line and two lines, 

 eampanulate, five segments white-setaceous-tipped, various in 

 length compared with the tube, the latter slightly scarious 

 between the ribs; corolla white and of delicate texture, tube 

 about equalling the calyx tube, narrow-cylindrical, limb about 

 two lines long, campanulate, segments obovate, margins entire 

 or the ends slightly crenate; stamens regularly inserted at the 

 top of the tube, filaments slender, about two-thirds the length of 

 the limb; capsule exceeding the calyx tube, seeds one or two in 

 each cell. 



Common on open slopes of the foothills of the Sierra Nevada 

 Mts. and the Coast Ranges, from Shasta Co. south in the Coast 

 Range to Humboldt Co., and south in the Sierra Nevada Mts. to 

 Fresno Co. 



7. Linanthus pusillus Greene. Gilia pitsilla Benth. 



Slender branching annual, two to six inches high, branches 

 very slightly divergent to rarely decumbent, stems and branches 

 filiform; pubescence slight on stem and branches, not scabrous, 

 but scabrous on leaves, and absent or sparse and scabrous on the 

 calyx; leaves one-fourth inch long or less, cuspidate-tipped, 

 upper sometimes entire, lower three- to five-parted; flowers very 

 small and numerous on capillary pedicels not exceeding one inch 

 or subsessile; calyx subcylindrical about one and one-half lines 

 long, segments about one-half the tube, erect, setaceous- tipped; 

 corolla about one and one-half lines long, white, or purple, 

 equalling the calyx or slightly exserted, more exserted in age by 



