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1. ERIODICTYON CALIFORNICUM (Hook. & Arn.). -Torr. Bot. Mex. 
Bound. 148. 1850. 
Wigandia californica Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beechy 364. 1840. 
Eriodictyon glutinosum Benth. Bot. Voy. Sulphur 36. 1844. 
Eriodictyon glutinosum var. serratum Choisy, DC. Prod. 10:483. 1846. 
Eriodictyon californicum forma linearis Brand, Univ. Calif. Pub. Bot. 4:224. 
Eriodictyon californicum subsp. glutinosum Brand, in ENGLER, Pflanzenreich 
9 ‘ 
Eriodictyon californicum forma latifolia Brand, loc. cit. 
An erect shrub 1-3 m. high, with mostly erect branches, the 
older branches and trunk clothed with light brown shreddy bark, 
the branchlets glabrate and glutinous, terete or sometimes angled: 
leaves lanceolate or oval, sometimes linear-lanceolate, 4-10 cm. 
long, 1-5 cm. wide, dentate or undulate, glabrous and glutinous 
above, whitened beneath with a fine indument between the reticu- 
lations, the midvein prominent, its main branches usually anas- 
tomosing at the margin; petioles gradually narrowed to the base, 
sometimes winged: branches of the inflorescence glabrous: sepals 
with a few scattered hairs or glabrous, linear, $ as long as the 
corolla: corolla funnelform, about 12 mm. long: stamens unequal, 
in sets of three long and two short or sometimes the reverse: 
style half as long as the corolla tube: capsule globular, usually 
covered with a white gum: seeds brown, about 6-12 maturing in 
a capsule. 
Branp’s two forms, /atifolia and linearis, may occur in almost any locality 
where plants are subjected to different exposures. They are adjustments of the 
individual to local environmental conditions, and are not worthy of a taxonomic 
designation. 
TYPE Locatity.—Described from specimens collected by Douctas in the 
coastal region of central California, between Sonoma and Monterey. 
Distrtsution.—Inhabits the Upper Sonoran and Lower Transition 
zones, growing on clay, sandy, or rocky soils. Ranges from the southern end 
of the Sierra Nevada in Kern County and the Coast Ranges of San Luis Obispo 
County northward to the Siskiyou Mountains, where it reaches its northern 
limit, so far as known, in the vicinity of Wimer, Jackson County, Oregon. In 
the central Sierra Nevada it has been collected well within the Transition zone 
in Yosemite Valley (Abrams 4563) between Mirror Lake and Kenneyville, but 
associated with a number of other Upper Sonoran intruders. In the coastal 
