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Mostly at higher altitudes in the mountains: Coast Ranges; Sierra Nevada; 

 Southern California. June. Leaves exceedingly variable. 



3. G. multicaulis Benth. Branching from the base, 9 to 14 in. high, gla- 

 brous; leaves ((innately parted into 5 to 9 linear and entire or toothed lobes; 

 flowers subsessile or the clusters loose, in either ease few-flowered, the pedicels 



1 to 4 lines (rarely 1 in.) long; calyx-teeth erect or recurved in fruit; corolla 

 deep or pale blue, its proper tube shorter than the calyx, the funnelform throat 

 longer than the obovate lobes; stamens unequally inserted; capsule ovoid. 



Hills and valleys from Marin Co. and the Vaca Mts. southward through the 

 Coast Kanges to Southern California. Variable. 



G. latiflora Gray. A similar species, glabrous except the loosely panicu- 

 late inflorescence; radical leaves pinnatifid, the cauline few, narrow and entire; 

 pedicels shorter than the flowers or 1 in. or more long; corolla dilated-funnel- 

 form, abruptly contracted below into a narrow tube which slightly exceeds the 

 calyx; calyx less than 2 lines long, with subulate or acute teeth. — Southern 

 California and northward in the South Coast Kanges. 



4. G. tricolor Benth. Bird's Eyes. Erect, usually branching somewhat 

 above the base, commonly 4 to 7 in. or sometimes 1 ft. high; herbage more or 

 less pubescent with gland-tipped hairs ; leaves laciniately bipinnatifid into 

 narrowly linear divisions ; calyx 3 lines long, its lobes acuminate ; corolla 6 to 

 7 lines long, the roundish lobes azure or whitish, the throat with 2 oblong 

 purple areas beneath each lobe bounded below by yellow; stamens inserted at the 

 sinuses. 



Common on low hills: Coast Kanges (Los Gatos, northward to Humboldt 

 Co., but especially common toward the interior) ; Sierra Nevada foothills. Apr. 

 Also called ' ' Pink Eyes" near Vallejo. 



5. G. achilleaefolia Benth. Very similar to the next in habit but very 

 frequently simple, generally more pubescent, and the capitate flower-clusters 

 larger and less compact ; calyx more or less woolly, the teeth triangular, acute, 

 with short recurved tips or connivent over the young fruit; corolla deep or pale 

 blue, funnelform with ample throat, its lobes obovate or oblong. 



Sandy soils: Coast Kanges; Sierra Nevada foothills; Southern California. 

 May. 



6. G. capitata Dougl. Erect, simple or more commonly branching above, 



2 or 3 ft. high, pubescent or almost glabrous; leaves several times palmately 

 dissected into linear or filiform lobes, or the uppermost merely pinnately di- 

 vided; ultimate segments often curved or falcate; peduncles long, slender and 

 naked, terminating in a densely globose (capitate) cluster; calyx nearly or 

 quite glabrous, its teeth lanceolate, in anthesis approximating the tube in 

 length; corolla light blue, its lobes nearly linear; stamens inserted in the very 

 sinuses of the corolla. 



Coast Kange hills and ridges from Marin and Napa cos. northward; Sierra 

 Nevada. May. 



7. G. virgata Steud. var. floribunda Gray. Stems simple or branching at 

 the base; leaves pinnately parted into 3 to 7 filiform lobes, the middle (or ter- 

 minal) lobe commonly much longer than the others; flowers numerous in head- 

 like clusiers terminating the corymbose branches, the bracts and calyx very 

 densely woolly; corolla salverform, the tube 6 to 8 lines long and surpassing 

 the acerose calyx lobes; filaments filiform and exserted. 



Sandy soils of the valleys: lower San Joaquin plains and Santa Clara Co. 

 southward to Southern California. June- July. G. virgata has the lower 



