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and less compact; calyx more or less woolly, the teeth triangular, acute; 
corolla blue, its lobes obovate or oblong.—Sandy soils. 
7. G. virgata Steud. At first simple, then branched, 1 to 2 dm. high ; 
lower leaves entire, upper 3-parted, the divisions filiform; flowers in small 
clusters virgately disposed; corolla light blue or whitish.—Monterey to 
S. Cal. 
8. G. brauntonii Jepson & Mason. Simple or branched annual 2 to 4 
dm. high; leaves pinnately parted into 3 to 7 filiform divisions; flowers 
in dense floccose heads; corolla vivid blue; stamens exserted beyond the 
tube, anthers sagittate.—S. Cal. G. virgata Steud. var. floribunda 
Gray.) 
9. G. squarrosa H. & A. Skunkweed. Erect, simple or branching, 2 
to 3 dm. high, noxiously glandular; leaves once or twice pinnatifid, the 
segments lanceolate; calyx-teeth lanceolate, pungent, corolla blue,—S. 
F. Bay region and n. 
3. LINANTHUS Benth. 
Slender annuals with simple or dichotomously branching stems and 
opposite palmately divided or simple leaves. Flowers mostly scattered 
or in terminal capitate clusters. Corolla rotate to funnelform or salver- 
form. Stamens included or exserted. Ovary with few to numerous 
ovules in each cell. (Greek linon, flax, and anthos, flower.) 
Corolla funnelform, the throat equal to or longer than tube. 
Flowers subsessile or on short stout pedicels.1. L. dichotomus. 
Flowers on capillary pedicels. 
Leaves linear, entire; corolla-lobes serrate-margined...2. L. dianthiflorus. 
Leaves palmately divided; corolla-lobes entire-margined. 
Stems branching above the base; plants 10 to 40 cm. high. 
3. L. liniflorus. 
Stems branching at the base, the branchlets filiform; plant 5 to 15 
cm. high.4. L. filipes. 
Corolla salverform, the tube much longer than the throat. 
Corolla not much exceeding the bracts, its lobes 2 to 3 mm. long. 
5. L. ciliatus. 
Corolla much exceeding the bracts, its lobes 3 to 7 mm. long. 
Corolla-lobes 3 to 4 mm. long ; plants often very much branched from 
the base, slender.6. L. parviflorus. 
Corolla-lobes 5 to 7 mm. long; plants usually erect, stout. 
7. L. androsaceus. 
1. L. dichotomus Benth. Evening Snow. Erect, 1 to 2 dm. high; 
nodes few and internodes very long; flowers terminal or in the forks, 
on short stout pedicels or sub-sessile; calyx-tube cylindrical, white-scari- 
ous between the ribs which are prolonged into long narrowly linear lobes; 
corolla white or nearly so, funnelform, its lobes obovate. strongly con¬ 
volute in the bud. the limb 2.4 cm. broad ; stamens included in the tube of 
the corolla, inserted below its middle, somewhat hairy at the very base. — 
Open slopes of high hills. 
2. L. dianthiflorus Greene. Simple or diffusely branching, 2.4 to 14.4 
cm. high; corolla pink, 1.2 to 1.8 cm. broad, the tube short and the lobes 
fringed.—Santa Barbara to San Diego. 
3. L. liniflorus Greene. Plants erect, 2.8 to 5.7 dm. high, branching- 
above; flowers white, in a diffuse panicle; corolla with nearly obsolete 
