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less, t'unnelform, the proper tube white or pale yellow, very 

 slightly exceeding the calyx, limb as long as the tube, throat 

 short, deep purple at the base, yellow above, lobes white or 

 cream, long-oval to oblong; stamens inserted at the top of the 

 dark band in the throat, reaching to the base of the lobes; three 

 capillary divisions of the stigma only exceeding the anthers in 

 maturity. 



Type below Mariposa, Mariposa Co., J. W. Congdon, May 

 10, 1899. Kaweah River Basin, Tulare Co., Ralph Hopping. 



24. Linanthus parviflorus Greene. Leptosiphon parviflorus 

 Benth. Gilia micrantha Steud. 



Rather slender annual, simple or diffusely branching, prin- 

 cipally from the base, usually about a span high or less, 

 occasionally one foot; pubescence short and white on the 

 branches, sometimes almost lacking, longer and hispid on the 

 foliage, slight on the corolla tube; leaves from one-fourth to 

 one-half inch long, three- to five-parted, segments narrow-linear 

 or slightly spatulate; inflorescence of numerous small terminal 

 heads; calyx three or four lines long, narrow, teeth longer than 

 the tube, erect; corolla with a long, very slender tube one toone- 

 and one-fourth inches long, ending abruptly in an expanded yellow 

 throat, lobes narrowly oval, white, cream or yellow, with dark 

 markings outside, limb two to three lines long; stamens inserted 

 in the throat, filaments about one-half the length of the limb, 

 anthers oblong, large for the size of the flower; style usually 

 exceeding the anthers, three long stigma- divisions entirely 

 exserted or divergent, recurved in age, a conspicuous character 

 of the type; capsule equalling the tube of the calyx, narrow at 

 the base, seeds long and narrow. 



Common in exposed parts of low hills. Shasta Co., south 

 along the Coast Range hills to San Diego Co. 



Var. luteolus. Gilia micrantha var. anrea Benth. Linan- 

 thus luteoluft Greene. Leaf segments linear but not acerose; 

 corolla lobes bright yellow, throat orange, upper tube yellow, 

 lower reddish brown; stigmas less divergent and less exserted 

 than in the species. Often as large flowered as var. rosaceus. 



