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_ GILIA INcoNspicua.. SMALL-FLOWERED 
GILIA. 
Class and Order. 
PenranpriA Monoeynta. 
( Nat. Ord.—Po.emoniAcez. ) 
Generic Character. 
Cal. campanulatus, 5-fidus. Cor. infundibuliformis vel 
hypocrateriformis, quinquefida. Stamina fauci inserta. 
Stigma trifidum. te 3-locularis, 3-valvis, loculis 
mono- di- polysperma. | 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Ginia* mconspicua ; caule ramosissimo calycibusque _pu- 
bescenti-glandulosis, foliis. pinnatifidis inferioribus 
bipinnatifidis, segmentis linearibus. 
Giza inconspicua. Douglas MSS. 
Gitta parviflora. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 1. p. 626. 
PoMopsis inconspicua. Smith Exot. Fl. t. 14. 
witerea parviflora, Pursh FI. Am. Sept.'v.2. p. 730. Suppl. 
p. 730. a 
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Descr. An annual, much branching plant, with rounded 
stems, glanduloso-pubescent upwards. Leaves one or two 
mches long, those of the root bipinnatifid, ‘becoming less 
compound upwards, so that the cauline ones are simply 
Pinnatifid, and the uppermost, especially those that may 
be considered bractee, undivided: the lacinie linear, acute, 
entire. Flowers, some few of them lateral and eg 
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* So named by Cavawruiés in honour of Parurpra range ig : 
Spanish Botanist, who wrote on the plants of Peru, and a history ns cata 
m of Terra Firma, in America. 
