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extremely short and rigid. The berry in R. cereum is described as rarely 
containing more than 3 large seeds, while this has numerous, small, 
angular seeds. 
5. Gilia montana A. Nelson et P. B. Kennedy, |. c., p. 37. 
Perennial, depressed-caespitose, with a stout lignescent caudex: 
flowers capitate: leaves crowded on short tufted shoots, floccose-tomen- 
tose, mostly 5-lobed, a few at the base linear, bilobed, and trilobed; 
lobes linear-lanceolate, slightly pungent, 4—6 mm long, with petioles 
about 6 mm long, bearing a few scattered bracts, similar to the leaves: 
numerous purplish lobed bracts among the flowers: flowers numerous, 
white to pink, clusters 12—25 mm across; calyx very slender, beset 
with long, slender hairs 4 mm long, about equalling the tube of the 
corolla, calyx lobes linear-lanceolate, slender-subulate: each flower sub- 
tended by a linear-lanceolate bracteole; corolla 6 mm long, tube about 
twice the length of the ovate rounded entire lobes: capsule ovoid, 
glabrous, 2 mm long, one-seeded. 
Allied to G. caespitosa (Gray) A. Nels.; Summit of Mount Rose, Washoe 
County, Nevada, August 17, 1905, No. 1170 (type), P. B. Kennedy, at 
10,800 feet; also from the same place, but past flowering, September 29, 
1902, No. 694, P. B. Kennedy; also from Tinkers Knob, Eldorado County, 
California, Sierra Nevada, elevation 9,020 feet, August, 10, 1901, P. B. 
Kennedy and S. B. Doten, No. 279. 
6. Phlox dejecta A, Nelson et P. B. Kennedy, l. e., p. 37. 
Plant resembling a desert moss: tufts less than 3 em high: branches 
of the caudex somewhat tortuous: leaves linear, mucronulate, hirsute to 
pubescent, 4—6 mm long, imbricated: corolla white, the tube twice as 
long as the calyx; -corolla-tube 12 mm long; calyx teeth prominent, rigid, 
hirsute, 5 mm long, linear-lanceolate, with a very sharp spinulose tip: 
capsule ovoid, glabrous, 3 mm long, one-seeded. 
Allied to P. bryoides Nutt. and P. muscoides Nutt., but in no sense 
lanate or canescent, with a very different calyx and corolla. Growing 
abundantly in broad moss-like mats on the summit of Mount Rose, 
Washoe County, Nevada, at 10,800 feet, August 17, 1905, No. 1159 
(type), P. B. Kennedy. 
7. Castilleia inconspicua A. Nelson et P. B. Kennedy, |. c., p. 38. 
Perennial, with a caudex about 5 em long, which branches at the 
base into several roots: plants variable in height according to the ele- 
vation: At 10,000 feet about 15 cm high, becoming gradually reduced to 
5 cm or even less at 10,800: stems and leaves pubescent and glandular, 
which increases in density with the elevation: leaves sessile, mostly 
linear at the base, becoming 3—7 cleft or parted toward the inflores- 
cence, very variable in size, from 6—25 mm in length: bracts subtending 
each flower 3-cleft to about the middle, 12 —20 mm long; flowers in an 
oblong spike, cream-colored, with a purple blotch; calyx villous, 12 mm 
long, divided into 4 lanceolate-acuminate lobes 4—6 mm long, greenish- 
purple; corolla 10 mm long, galea triangular, obtuse, gibbous, slightly 
