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lanceolate or linear, acute, 5 to 9 lines long; flowers in terminal 

 loose and somewhat corymbose clusters, or racemose on the branches; 

 corolla blue, b' to 9 lines in diameter; pedicels £ in. long or more; 

 sepals ovate, 3 to 5-nerved; capsule globose, acute, 4 or 5 "line9 long, 

 eventually dehiscent by 10 valves, the valves often with a brown 

 mid nerve. 



Upper Salinas Valley, Brewer, and northward in the Coast Ranges 

 but rare; more common in the Sierra Nevada. 



2. L. adenophyllum Gray. Stem 11 to 14 in. high, unbranched 

 bel >w, repeatedly forked above and forming a widely branched 

 panicle; leaves alternate or the lowest opposite, lanceolate, \ in. long 

 or less, the margin conspicuous y glandular-ciliate; flowers yellow or 

 yellowish white, about 2 lines long, on very s ender pedicels 1 to 5 

 lines long; appendages of the petals broad and confluent, somewhat 

 pubescent; fi amenta abruptly dilated and.2-toothed at base; capsule 

 as loni; as the lanceolate sepa s. 



Lake and Mendocino Cos.; to be expected in northeastern Napa Co. 



3. L. spergulinum Gray. Stems more or less dkhotomous^y 

 paniculate, 11 to 18 in. high; leaves linear; pedicels filiform, rigid, 

 straight. 3 to 10 lines long; flowers pinkish white, 3 to 3£ lines long; 

 sepals ovate, nearly 1 line long; petals 2-toothed, with 3 appendages, 

 the middle one ligu ate and the lateral often reduced; capsule ovoid, 

 acute, nearly twice as l«»n£ as the sepals. 



North Coast Ranges: Lake and Mendocino Cos.; credited to Marin 

 and Sonoma Cos. by Greene. 



4. L. micranthum Gray. Five to 10 in. high, freely branched 

 above the base but the branches commonly rather closely ascending, 

 somewhat soft pubescent toward the base; leaves linear-oblong, obtuse, 

 3 to 6 lines lomj; flowers commonly 2 lines long, somewhat nodding 

 on filiform pedicels; fruiting pedicels 2 to 4 lines long; sepals ob ong- 

 lanceolate, the inner sparingly gland ular-ci iate; petals commonly 1, 

 rare y 2\ lines long, 2-toothed, mostly without appendages; capsule 

 ovoid, equal to the sepa s. 



Sierra Nevada; credited to the Bay Region by Trelease. 



5. L. Californicum Benth. Glabrous and glaucous plants, 10 in. 

 to 2 ft. high, paniculately branched, with angled or striate branches; 

 leaves linear, 5 to 12 lin^s long, with prominent stipular glands; 

 flowers white or pinkish; sepals lanceolate, with sparingly glandular- 

 ciliate inner margins; petals 2 to 3 lines long, 3-appendaged, the 

 median appendage rounded and hairy; capsule ovoid, acute, a little 

 shorter than the sepals. 



North Coast Ranges: Zem Zem, Napa Co. Credited to the Mt. 

 Diablo Region by Greene. 



6. L. congestum Gray. Eight to 18 in. high, corymbosely 

 branched at top; leaves somewhat pubescent, 4 to 13 lines long, with 

 stipular glands; flowers rose-purple, 3 to 4 lines long, terminating the 

 branches in clusters; sepals pubescent; petals with 3 appendages, the 



