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Its testa is in like 



laginous, and, if examined with a high magnifier, is seen 

 to be covered with an entangled mass of hairs, held together 

 by the mucilage, and evidently analogous to the coma of 

 some plants, but most particularly to those hairs that 



the surface of 



of the Convolvulus tribe 



which 



Polemoniaceae have a strong affinity. 



Dr. Hooker is undoubtedly right in referring this to 

 CoUomia, rather than to Gilia, where Douglas wished to 

 place it. 



J. L. 



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