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the stems just below the nodes; leaves about one-fourth inch 

 long, segments three to five, cuspidate-tipped; flower pedicels 

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

 one-fourth inch long, narrow-cylindrical; corolla all white or 

 with purple-tipped lobes, sometimes with dark reddish-purple 

 spots at the base of the lobes, tube about equalling the calyx, or 

 slightly exceeding it, limb always exserted, salverform in full 

 bloom, lobes broad- obovate with entire edges; stamens inserted 

 just below the sinuses, slightly exserted beyond the throat, 

 anthers round; style long but stigma not exserted beyond the 

 throat; capsule not quite equalling the calyx, teeth broader at 

 the apex than at the base, seeds two to five. 



Shasta Co. Humboldt Co. Type from Ukiah, Mendocino Co. 

 Lake Co. Mt. Hamilton, Santa Clara Co., A. Kellogg. Lassen 

 Co. Cloverdale, Mr. Sherlocks. Mariposa Co., J. W. Congdon. 



10. Linanthus ambiguus Greene. Gilia ambigua Rattan. 



Annual, four to six inches high, branching with filiform 

 stems, these smooth to the touch, and glabrous to the naked 

 eye, but very minutely and sparsely puberulent; leaves and calyx 

 lobes scabrous-pubescent; leaves five- to seven-parted, two to 

 three and one-half lines long; inflorescence one-to three-flowered 

 from the axils of the upper leaves, flowers on capillary pedicels 

 from one to eight lines long; calyx two and one-half to three 

 lines long, narrow-cylindrical, hyaline spaces very narrow, lobes 

 one line or less long, aristate- subulate; corolla one-half to three- 

 fourths inch long, funnelform, tube one and one-half to two times 

 the calyx, dark purple, throat two lines long, purple below, yeliow 

 above, lobes two and one-half lines long, blue-purple, broad- 

 ovate; stamens and style exserted, but only one-half as long as 

 the lobes, anthers oval, yellow; capsule narrow-oblong, included 

 in the tube of the calyx, many seeded. 



San Carlos Mt., San Benito Co., Alice Eastwood. Hernan- 

 dez, San Benito Co. Loma Prieta, Santa Cruz Co., J. B. Davy. 

 On Oak Hill, near San Jose, Santa Clara Co. Mt. Hamilton, 

 Santa Clara Co., Alice Crane. Livermore, Alameda Co., 

 W. L. Jepson. 



