

156 BOTANY OF THE DEATH VALLEY EXPEDITION. 



Gilia leptomeria Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. viii. 278 (1870). Type locality, 

 "mountain valleys of Nevada arid Utah." 

 Near Keeler (No. 851). 



Gilia nudicaulis (Hook. &. Arn.) Bot. Beech. 368 (1840-41), under Cottomia; Gray, 

 Proc. Amer. Acad. viii. 266 (1870). Type locality, " Green River, Snake Country/' 

 probably in southwestern Wyoming. 



Mack Canon, White Mountains (No. 17%). This species appears not to have been 

 found within the limits of California before. 



Gilia nuttallii Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. viii. 267 (1870). Type locality not 

 given; range, "Rocky Mountains of Colorado and Utah to the Sierra Nevada in 

 California." 



Between Mineral King and Farewell Gap (No. 1483), in Waucoha Canon, Inyo 

 Mountains (No. 1790), and in Big Cottonwood Meadows, Sierra Nevada (No. 2130). 

 The Sierran specimens, like others collected in the same region, are larger, less 

 pubescent, and have broader corollas. 



Gilia polycladon Torr. Bot. Mcx. Bound. 146 (1859). Type locality, "Stony 

 hills, near El Paso, Texas." 

 Valley of the Virgin River, Nevada (No. 1917). 



Gilia pungena squarrosa Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. viii. 268 (1870). Type local- 

 ity, "arid districts of Nevada and Utah." 

 Wood Canon, Grapevine Mountain (No. 1756). 



Gilia virgata floiibunda Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. viii. 272 (1870). Type locality 

 "California." 

 Valley of the Kaweah River (No. 1318). 



Polemonium confertum Gray, Proc. Acad Phil. 1861, 73 (1863). Type locality in 

 the Rocky Mountains, but not specifically given. 

 Near Mount Whitney (No. 2061). 



Polemonium occidental Greene, Pittonia, ii. 75 (1890). Type localities, "Rocky 

 Mountains of Colorado" and "Californian Sierras." 

 Specimens of this plant were seen in Trout Meadows, Sierra Nevada. 



HYDROPHYLLACEJE. 



Hydrophyllum occidental (Wats.) Bot. King Surv. 218 (1871), as IT. macro- 

 phi/llum occidentalc; Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. x. 314 (1875). Type locality uncertain, 

 but the California plants aro apparently intended as the type. 



Near Mineral King, Sierra Nevada (No. 1497). These specimens are intergrades 

 between the type and variety watxoni. 



Nemophila maculata Bentb. Journ. llort. Soc. Loud. iii. 319 (1818). Type 

 locality, 1 "ad rivulos in moutibus Sacramento." 

 Valley of the Kaweah River (No. 1338). 



Nemophila spatulata sp. nov. 



Annual, branching from the base, more or less approssed-hirsute throughout; 

 branches procumbent, usually less than 10 cm. long; cotyledons oblong to spatnlate' 

 entire, petiolate ; leaves opposite, spatnlate, tapering into a margined petiole, coarsely 

 3- to 5- toothed, never pinnatitid at the apex, the teeth broad, acute or obtuse, entire; 

 peduncles shorter than the leaves, reflexed, at least in fruit; calyx 1 to 2 mm. long! 

 its lobes ovate-lanceolate, acute, the appendages lanceolate, acute, about one-half as 



>B«nth. PI. Hartw. 326 (1849.) 



