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the growing capsule, tube shorter than the limb, expanded at the 

 base around the capsule, upper part narrow-cylindrical, lobes 

 narrow- obovate, convolute; stamens inserted near the sinuses, 

 about two-thirds the length of the lobes, sometimes declined; 

 style longer than the filament, stigma short; capsule narrow- 

 cylindrical, about equalling or slightly exceeding the calyx tube, 

 seeds minute, "three to five" (Gray). 



San Jacinto, Riverside Co. Witch Creek, San Diego Co. 

 Hullville, Lake Co. St. Helena, Napa Co. Howell Mountain, 

 Napa Co. 



Var. Californicus. Gilia pusilla Californica Gray. Plant 

 larger than the species, sometimes diffusely branching; corolla 

 often twice the calyx. 



San Luis Obispo Co., Mrs. R. W. Summers. Elk Grove, 

 Sacramento Co., W. C. Blasdale. 



8. Linanthus Harknessii Greene. Gilia Harknessii Curran. 



Slender annual, from two to ten inches high, averaging six 

 inches; pubescence very slight or lacking on the stems; leaves 

 small at the base, often becoming larger, one-half to three- 

 fourths inch, on the middle of the stem, and first nodes of 

 the branches, three- to five-parted, becoming much smaller and 

 simpler at the ends of the branches, edges re volute, tips mucro- 

 nate; flowers one or two lines long, on pedicels varying from 

 one-fourth to one and one-fourth inches long; calyx about one 

 line long, campanulate; corolla white, minute, little exserted 

 beyond the calyx, lobes broadly acute; stamens about three- 

 fourths the length of the flower; capsule equalling the calyx 

 tube, oval, seeds one in each cell. 



Middle and high Sierra Nevada Mountain regions, from 

 Modoc Co. south to Mariposa Co. 



9. Linanthus Bolanderi Greene. Gilia Bolanderi Gray. 



Slender annual, stems and branches filiform, usually branch- 

 ing dichotomously, about one span high; minute pubescence on 

 the stem and branches, scabrous on the leaves, none on the 

 calyx, or sometimes glandular on the calyx and pedicels and on 



