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Fairfax hills, Marin Co., Alice Eastwood. Same place, C. 

 Michener. Knight's Valley, Sonoma Co., Alice Eastwood. 



28. Linanthus bicolor Greene. Leptosiphon Mcolor Nutt. 



Oilia tenella Benth. 



Low annual, from one to six inches high, simple or with few 

 divergent branches, stems more or less pubescent with short 

 bent white hairs, corolla tube slightly pubescent on the outside; 

 leaves scabrous with short hirsute pubescence on the margins, 

 three- to five-parted or the lowest entire and spatulate, segments of 

 the upper leaves narrow, spatulate becoming narrower above, even 

 acerose; inflorescence of small terminal heads; calyx about four 

 lines long, the tube only one line, teeth narrowly lanceolate; 

 corolla from three-fourths to one and one-fourth inches long, 

 tube four times the length of the limb, slender but not extremely 

 so in proportion to the limb, reddish, abruptly expanding into 

 a yellow throat, lobes ovate, rose-purple, one to one and one- 

 half lines long; stamens and stigma about two-thirds the 

 corolla lobes; capsule two to two and one-half lines long, taper- 

 ing at the base; seeds six in each cell(?). 



Humboldt Co., J. P. Tracy. Mendocino Co., W. L. Jepson. 

 Lake Co. Placer Co. AmadorCo. Yosemite Valley, Mariposa 

 Co. Fresno Co. 



29. Linanthus ciliatus Greene. Oilia ciliata Benth. 



Annual, fronl four to fourteen inches high, usually erect and 

 simple, but sometimes with spreading branches principally 

 from the base; stems puberulent, herbage conspicuously mar- 

 gined with long, stiff, white cilia, standing nearly at right angles 

 to the margins, short scabrous bristles also present especially at 

 the apex of the leaves, bracts, and calyx lobes; leaves increasing 

 in size from the base of the plant upward, not exceeding one inch, 

 five to seven linear divisions, cuspidate- tipped; inflorescence of 

 close, rounded, terminal heads, bracts most conspicuously ciliated, 

 concave on the inside, clasping the head with the tips of the 

 divisions finally recurving, this character of clasping bracts being 

 very characteristic of of L. ciliatus and moderately so of L. 

 montanus; calyx one-half inch long, ribs closely approximated 



