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GihiA INCONSPICUA (J. E. Smith) Sweet, Hort. Brit. 683. 



ipomopsis inconspicua J. B. Smith, Exot. Bot. pi. 14. 



Cantua parvijioj^a Pursh, Fl. 3: 730. 1814. 



Gilia parvifiot'a Spreng. Syst. 1: 626. 1825. 



No. 7671, collected April 13, in sand at Kramer, San Ber- 

 nardino county, in the Mojave desert. Though diffuse, the 

 branches are ascending, and the leaves with narrow divisions. 

 This is probably not G. inconspicua^ which has been so confused 

 in books and herbaria that one cannot tell what it really is 

 without reference to the original. 



No. 7791, collected April 28, on the high ridge west of 

 McKittrick, Kern county, in open gravelly places. This is a 

 prostrate plant with rather broad leaves, and is darker green 

 than no. 7671, which it does not resemble very much. 



lyiNANTHUS DiCHOTOMUS Beuth. Bot. Reg. 19: under//. 1622. 



1833- 

 Giha dichotoma Benth. DC. Prodr. 9: 314. 1845. 



No. 7690, collected April 14, at Randsburg, Kern county, 

 on gravelly hills. It is a night blooming species, opening be- 

 fore dark and closing shortly after sunrise, the newly opened 

 flowers fragrant. It is also abundant in the lower sandy places 

 on the desert. All the plants from the southern part of the 

 State appear to be diffusely branched, the edges of the petals 

 marked with brown, while those from the northern coast coun- 

 ties are more simple, with fewer wholly white flowers. 



IviNANTHUS PARRYAE (Gray) Greene, Pittonia, 3: 256. 1892. 



Gilia Parry ae Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 13: 76. 1876. 



No. 7666, collected April 13, at Kramer, San Bernardino 

 county, on the Mojave desert in sand. While this species be- 

 longs to another section, it much resembles L. dichotomiis in its 

 flower which opens in the morning some little time after those 

 of the latter have closed. They vary in color from creamy white 

 to blue. The type was from "desert plains near the head of the 

 Mohave River." 



