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Diplacus longiflorus — Low, .5-10 dm. high. Common on all tlie foothills and in 

 the chaparral belt. 



Diplacus puniceus — Resembles the last in liabit, but has scarlet corolla. Common 

 on dry hillsides about San Diego and ranging northward to the Santa Mar- 

 garita River. 



Figure 142. Hesperoyucca whipplei. This is one of our most gorgeous desert 

 plcmts, whose flower clusters would grandly illuminate a native park. 



Eriodictyon calif orn'tcum (Yerba Santa) — Shrub, 10-20 dm. high. Occasional 

 in the chaparral belt of the San Gabriel mountains. More common on the dry 

 plains east of our ranges, where it extends up to the pine belt. May-August. 



