56 Unii'trxity <>j California Publications. [BOTANY 



Borders of the Colorado Desert, at Agua Caliente, San Diego 

 Co., W. G. Wright. 



20. Linanthus Lemmoni Greene. Gilia Lemmoni Gray. 

 Small annual, from three to six inches high, simple or dif- 

 fusely branching from the base, upper branches comparatively 

 few in most cases; pubescence soft on the stems, more or less 

 scabrous on the foliage; leaves one-fourth inch or less long, 

 three- to five-parted, divisions linear but not filiform, acute at the 

 tip; inflorescence a single flower or of small heads, both axillary 

 and terminal, on slender pedicels when solitary, subsessile in the 

 head; calyx from one and one-half to three lines long, slenderly 

 cylindrical or somewhat spreading at the top, lobes five, as long 

 as the tube, acute at the tip; corolla three lines long, in large 

 forms nearly five lines, tube bulging at the base, narrowing to 

 expand gradually into the throat, lower part white, upper dark 

 red, throat yellowish, lobes obovate, whitish; stamens inserted 

 just below the sinuses, recurved in age, anthers round; seeds 

 many. 



Southern California in San Bernardino, Riverside and SMU 

 Diego counties. (Plate 8.) 



21. Linanthus densiflorus. Leptosiphon densiflorns Benth. 



Linanthus qrandiflorus Greene. 



Annual, six inches to two feet high, stout, simple or with 

 one to two short branches near the top, stems glabrous or nearly 

 so, herbage scabrous- pubescent and somewhat ciliate, bracts 

 sometimes densely so at the base; leaves seven-parted, one inch 

 long in larger forms, many of the lower, perhaps half of them 

 drop the segments while the plant is flowering; flowers 

 crowded in a large bracted terminal cluster, showy, subsessile; 

 calyx nearly cylindrical five and one-fourth lines long in large 

 forms, tube four lines long, lobes narrow-lanceolate, acute; 

 corolla one inch long or more, tube not equalling the calyx tube, 

 throat long-narrow-funnelform, yellow, lobes purple, pink or 

 white; stamens inserted a little below the sinuses and little 

 exceeding them, anthers oval. 



Mendocino Co., J. B. Davy. Alameda Co., A. Kellogg. 

 Monterey Co., Brewer. San Luis Obispo Co., Blochman. Pos- 



