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sibly there is a variety with long exserted tube but no specimens 

 are at hand. 



22. Linanthus androsaceus Greene. Leptosiphon androsaceus 



Benth. Gilia androsaceus Gray. 



Rather stout annual, from four inches to one and one-half 

 feet high, usually simple or with few branches, sometimes several 

 from the base, branches widely divergent ; minute white pubescence 

 on the stem and corolla tube, and a longer bristly pubescence 

 on the foliage; leaves three- to seven-parted, not always divided 

 clear to the base, the very lowest sometimes entire, segments 

 spatulate except those of the upper leaves which are linear, edges 

 revolute, tips cuspidate; inflorescence of terminal heads, showy; 

 calyx three to four lines long, less than half as broad, five seg- 

 ments equalling the tube, truly herbaceous, the rest more or less 

 scarious; corolla large, tube averaging one inch, narrow- cylindri- 

 cal, funnelform throat dark brown or yellow, sometimes both, 

 lobes broad-rounded at the apex, from dark purple to nearly 

 white; stamens inserted at the sinuses, anthers oblong, filaments 

 only slightly exceeding the throat; stigma with three slender 

 divisions reaching half way up the lobes of the corolla. 



Common on open hillsides. Mendocino Co., W. L. Jepson. 

 HumboldtCo., C. C. Marshall. San Mateo Co., J. B. Davy. 

 Sheep Creek, San Gabriel Mts., H. M. Hall. (Plate 9.) 



Var. breviculus. Gilia brevicula Gray, Linanthus brevicu- 

 lus Greene. Smaller than the species, a span or less high, leaves 

 small, narrow, hirsute; heads small, bracts few; corolla tube 

 purple, about twice the length of the bracts, throat with dark 

 markings at the base and yellow above, the same form to the 

 corolla as in the species but the tube longer. 



Mohave Desert, S. B. Parish. San Antonio Mountains, 

 Southern California, H. M. Hall. San Bernardino Mts. 



23. Linanthus Mariposianus. 



Slender and sparsely branched annual, a span to one foot 

 high, stems puberulent, leaves and bracts few, hirsute, the three 

 to seven divisions very slender; calyx three lines long, the slen- 

 der acerose lobes exceeding the tube; corolla one inch long or 



