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spreading lobes; limb bluish purple, 4 lines broad; ovules 2 in each 

 cell. — (Gilia ambigua Rattan.) 



Low hills: Santa Clara Valley and near Livennore. May. Some 

 of the flowers show a glandular black band £ line in breadth midway 

 of the calyx-tube. 



5. L. Rattani (Gray) Greene. Ten to 12 in. high, glandular- 

 hirsutulous at the nodes and even the flowers with gland-tipped hairs; 

 pedicels lg in. long or less; calyx cylindraceous, in anthesis 1 line 

 long, accrescent in fruit to 2 lines long; corolla nearly salverform, 

 with a long slender tube and short funnelform throat, the tube 3 to 5 

 lines long, exserted barely 1 line to exceeding 3 lines, the throat 

 yellow, the limb blue and 3 to 5 lines broad; seeds small, very rugu- 

 lose, one to each cell or the third cell empty. — (G. Rattani Gray.) 



Santa Cruz Mountains. 1896; first collected by Volney Kattan 

 north of Clear Lake, 1884. June, Remarkable for the variable 

 cxsertion of the corolla-tube, even on the same plant. 



6. L. densiflorus Benth. Erect, simple, 5 in. to 2 ft. high; divi- 

 sions of the palmately divided leaves 5 to 11, linear-filiform and rigid, 

 ciliate towards the base and somewhat scabrous on the margins; 

 corolla lilac or white, 1 in. long or less, its tube only equaling or little 

 exceeding the obovate lobes, little if at all exserted beyond the calyx- 

 teeth, its limb \ in. broad, more or less; seeds 3 in each cell, strongly 

 wrinkled. — (Linanthus grandiflorus Greene.) 



Coast Range valleys or higher hills, infrequent: Point Reyes; Ala- 

 meda; Santa Cruz Mountains; Monterey Co. and southward. June. 



7. L. androsaceus (Benth.) Steud. Stoutish, usually simple, 7 to 

 11 or 15 in. high, finely tomentose or glabrate; lowest leaves spatu- 

 late; bracts ciliate, otherwise nearly glabrous; flowers usually many; 

 corolla lilac, lavender, pink or white, 1 in. long, much exceeding the 

 bracts, the lobes 3 to 4 lines long; the throat dark purple with yellow 

 border, 1 line long; stamens little surpassing the throat of the corolla. 



Common everywhere in the Coast Ranges and Sierra Nevada on 

 low bills and at middle altitudes. Apr. 



8. L. parviflorus (Benth.) Greene. Simple or with few branches 

 from the base, erect, commonly 3 to G or 11 in. high, almost glabrous; 

 bracts scabrous or hirsutulous, not ciliate or scarcely so, commonly 3 

 or 4 lines long; segments of the leaves obovate- or linear-spatulate; 

 corolla purple, pinkish or pale yellow, | to 1^ in. long, the lobes oval, 

 2 to 3 lines long or less, tinged with red or brown on the outside, the 

 throat yellow; stamens half or commonly more than half as long as 

 the corolla-limb. — (Gilia micrantha Benth.) 



The most common species, abundant in open ground in the hill 

 country. It is one of the annuals which figure in the vernal land- 

 scape color effects in the Coast Ranges, often occupying extensive 

 slopes of the lower or higher hills to the exclusion either partially or 

 wholly of other species. 



Var. rosaceus (Linanthus rosaceus Greene). Much branched 

 from the base; corolla rose-color or white, larger than in the type. — 

 San Francisco sand hills. 



