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11. Linanthus Rattani Greene. Gilia Rattani Gray. 



Slender annual, two to ten inches high, branching, sometimes 

 dichotomously ; leaves from one-eighth to one-half inch long, 

 three- to five-parted, sometimes with a few small glands as well as 

 scabrous pubescence ; calyx about two and one-half or three lines 

 long, narrow, nearly cylindrical, lobes only one-half the length 

 of the tube, acute; corolla one-half inch long, white, or the 

 tube pale at the base shading to red-purple at the top, tube 

 much exserted, about equalling the throat and lobes, slender, 

 cylindrical, throat short, purple and cream, lobes slender-oblong, 

 light lavender; stamens inserted just below the sinuses, filaments 

 extremely slender, anthers comparatively large, oval, sometimes 

 declined. 



Mariposa Co. Lake Co. Forest Grove, Santa Clara Co., 

 W. L. Jepsou. 



12. Linanthus Parryae Greene. Gilia Parryae Gray. 



Annual dwarf plant, one to four inches high, more or less 

 matted; stems and foliage soft-pubescent; leaves crowded at the 

 base, from one-fourth to one-half inch long, five- to seven-parted, 

 sometimes alternate upward; inflorescence somewhat congested, 

 subsessile or short-pediceled; calyx campanulate, tube short, 

 lobes with hyaline portions bordering the ribs, long and spread- 

 ing, spinulose, constricted over the growing capsule; corolla 

 one-half to three-fourths inch long, purple, yellowish or white, 

 with very short tube, ample expanding throat with five broad 

 scale-like appendages dark in color surrounding the summit, 

 opposite the obovate, spreading lobes, showing through on the 

 outside; stamens inserted at the top of the tube, filaments broad 

 at the base and dark, about equalling the throat, anthers oblong; 

 capsule oblong, seeds small and numerous. 



From Kern Co. south. Manzana, Los Angeles Co., J. B. 

 Davy. Mescal Creek, San Antonio Mts., Los Angeles Co., 

 H. M. Hall. 



13. Linanthus demissus Greene. Gilia <lcnii.^<i Gray. 



Annual, an inch or so high, without branches except those 

 forming the inflorescence, soft- pubescent, especially the stems; 



