Linanthus dichotomus Benth.

I^inAnthus dichotomus Benth. Bot. Reg. 19: under pi. 1622.
1833.	'
Gilia dichotoma Benth. DC. Prodr. 9: 314. 1845.
No. 7690, collected April 14, at Randsburg, Kern county,
on gravelly hills. It is a night blooming species, opening be-
fore dark and closing shortly after sunrise, the newly opened
flowers fragrant. It is also abundant in the lower sandy places
on. the desert. All the plants from the southern part of the
State appear tb be diffusely branched, the edges of the petals
marked with brown, while those from the northern coast coun-
ties are more simple, with fewer wholly white flowers.
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