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Leptodactylon patens 



Gilia pungens V2,x. sguarj'osa Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 8: 

 267. 1870; not Gilia squarrosa H, & A. 



Leptodactylon Hallil (Parish) 



Gilia Hallii Parish, Er}'thea, 7: 94. 1899. 

 Gilia pung ens V 2.1. Hallii ^Milliken, Univ. Cal. Pub. Bot, 

 3: 42. 1904. 



Leptodactylon tennllobum (Parish) 



Gilia teniiiloba Parish, Er^'thea, 7: 95. 1899. 

 Gilia pungens var. tenuiloba Milliken, Univ. Cal. Pub, Bot. 

 3:43. 1904- 



Navarretia erecta 



Stems rather slender, about 3 dm. high, with several erect 

 branches above, pale, pubescent with soft white spreading- or 

 tangled hairs, glandular above: lower leaves if any, absent, those 

 on the middle and upper part of the stem scattered, sessile, from 

 1-2 cm. long, about i cm, wide, cut into unequally pinnate rather 

 distant very narrow almost filiform divisions with acerose tips, 

 pubescent like the stem, and glandular: flowering heads dense, 

 2 cm. high and as broad: bracts like the leaves but proportion- 

 ately shorter and broader, pubescent and glandular: calyx 8 or 

 9 mm. long, of five unequal narrow acerose divisions equalling 

 or somewhat exceeding the tube, from one to three of them with 

 one or two pairs of narrow divisions like the leaves and bracts, 

 strongly ciliate with long chaffy hairs as well as glandular; tube 

 4 mm. long, with a narrow membrane between the broader 

 straw-colored central part which is only faintly veined, not 

 ribbed: corolla violet-blue, 1 cm. long, the slender tube about 

 7 mm. long, the throat funnel-form, 2 mm, wide above; lobes 

 ovate, blunt and rounded, barely 2 mm. long and about as wide: 

 capsule rather tMn walled; seeds pale brown, apparently only 

 two, ovate-oblong, i ram. long. 



