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dons of the embryo parted into 3 lobes, the divisions so deep as to give the 

 appearance of 6 cotyledons. 



Coast Ranges (Calistoga, Vacaville, etc.) ; very common in the Sierra Nevada 

 foothills. 



14. G. squarrosa H. & A. Skunkweed. Erect and simple or with many 

 branches from the base, 8 to 14 in. high, pubescent and noxiously glandular; 

 leaves once or twice pinnatifid, the segments lanceolate and often crowded; 

 calyx 6 lines long, very scarious below, the teeth lanceolate and pungent; corolla 

 blue, its tube little or scarcely at all exceeding the teeth; stamens included; 

 seeds many, small; embryo thick. 



Common in the Bay region (Monterey Co., San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, 

 Napa Valley, etc.), ranging northward to Oregon. 



15. G. mellita Greene. Diffusely branching from the base, 3 to 6 in. high, 

 the stems very slender, brownish, glandular-puberulent with somewhat whitish 

 hairs; leaves pinnately parted into linear-subulate entire or toothed segments; 

 bracts dilated and laciniately toothed or cleft into narrow divisions, or the 

 middle division ovate, abruptly cuspidate and often entire; heads small, % in. 

 broad or less; calyx unequally 5-toothed; corolla minute, not exceeding the 

 calyx, very pale blue; stamens not exserted. 



Seemingly very local plant in the region immediately north and south of 

 the bay; Belmont; Calistoga; Vacaville. 



16. G. heterodoxa Greene. Stems very slender, erect, branching, slightly 

 pubescent, 5 to 11 in. high; internodes long; lower leaves with narrowly 

 linear rachis and many pinnate short-subulate segments; uppermost leaves 

 lanceolate and entire except at the laciniately cleft base; bracts lanceolate to 

 broadly ovate, laciniate-toothed towards the base; calyx-segments entire, nearly 

 equal; corolla blue, with exserted declined stamens; capsule 8 to 14-seeded, the 

 seeds small. 



Coast Range hills : Napa and Sonoma cos. to Santa Clara Co. June. Sub- 

 species of the next. The valves of the capsule show a tendency to dehisce 

 from the base. 



17. G. atractyloides H. & A. Stems stoutish, low and spreading or pro- 

 cumbent, somewhat purplish and villous-pubescent, 2 or 3 to 6 in. long; leaves 

 and bracts rigidly coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate to ovate, 2 to 4 lines broad, 

 the margin armed with subulate or aristate teeth; segments of the calyx mod- 

 erately or very unequal, ovate to lanceolate, entire, setaceous at apex; corolla 

 narrowly funnelform, purple, 7 to 9 lines long; seeds about 10 in each coll. 



Dry hills of the Coast Ranges: Clear Lake southward to Southern California. 

 July. Habit suggesting certain species of Chorizanthe. 



18. G. viscidula H. & A. Erect, 2 or 3 in. high, viscid-pubescent; leaves 

 1% in. long or less, narrow, with broad rachis and remote short-subulate lobes; 

 bracts little dilated ; corolla rather large, blue-purple, the tube exserted, the limb 

 l' lines broad, its lobes elliptic; ovules 1 to 4 in each cell. 



Plains and bases of low hills, in sandy soil: San Rafael; Walnut Creek; 

 Sonoma: Napa Valley; Sacramento Valley; Sierra Nevada foothills. June. 

 While commonly very dwarfish, it sometimes becomes larger and makes a 

 spreading or Bubprostrate plant 1 ft. broad. 



4. LINANTHUS Benth. 

 Ours low or slender annuals. Loaves opposite, palmately divided to the base 

 into narrowly linear or filiform divisions (almost seeming as if in whorls in 



