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or below the throat; anthers short, included. Capsule 

 many-seeded. Seeds not mucilaginous. 



1. L. Californicum H. & A. Shrubby, 6-12 dm. high, the 

 branches and very crowded leaves tomentose-pubescent and more 

 or less glandular, leaf-segments narrowly linear, about 1.5 cm. 

 long; corolla rose color or lilac, its limb 2-4 cm. in diameter, 

 with broadly wedge-obovate lobes, their margins often minutely 

 erose; ovules 20 or more in each cell. (Gilia Californica Benth.) 



Frequent in the chaparral belt. March-June. 



5. LINANTHUS Benth. 



Mostly low or slender annuals, with leaves opposite, 

 or the upper rarely alternate, palmately divided to the 

 base into narrowly linear or filiform divisions (appear- 

 ing as if in whorls in some species), rarely entire. 

 Flowers scattered or in terminal capitate clusters. Calyx- 

 tube scarious between the ribs or angles, its teeth equal. 

 Corolla varying from salver-shaped to subrotate. Stamens 

 equally inserted on the corolla. Capsule with few-many 

 seeds in each cell. 



* Corolla funnelform. 



1. L. dianthiflorus (Benth.) Greene. Branching from the 

 base, the branches decumbent or simple and erect, 4-12 cm. high, 

 more or less pubescent ; leaves all simple, narrowly linear ; corolla 

 short-funnelform, 2 cm. long or more, lilac with a darker or 

 yellowish throat, the ample lobes from denticulate to strongly 

 fringed-toothed ; filaments inserted near the base of the tube; 

 ovules 12-20 in each cell. (Gilia dianthoides Endl.) 



Common in sandy soil in the coast and interior valleys. February-April. 



2. L. liniflorus (Benth.) Greene. Stems slender, dichotomous- 

 ly branched, about 3 dm. high, glabrous; leaf-segments about 

 3, filiform ; flowers on long slender pedicels in a loose cymose 

 panicle; corolla with nearly obsolete tube; the limb rotate, 

 12-24 mm. broad ; the obovate entire lobes white, marked with 7 

 deep blue veinlets ; stamens nearly as long as the corolla-lobes ; 



