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GILIA PUNGENS. SHARP-LEAVED GILIA. 
EKER EEE EEE EE EEE EE EE 
Class and Order. 
Pentanpria Monoeynta. 
( Nat. Ord.—Potemoniscez. ) 
Generic Character. 
Cal. campanulatus, 5-fidus. Cor. infundibuliformis vel 
hypocrateriformis, quinquefida. Stam. fauciinserta. Stig- 
ma trifidum. Capsula trilocularis, 3-valvis, loculis mono- 
di- polyspermis. 
Specific Character and Synonym. 
Gina pungens ; pubescenti-glandulosa, foliis bracteisque 
pinnatifidis, laciniis incisis subulatis pungentibus, flo- 
ribus glomeratis. : 
Gia pungens. Douglas MSS. 
Glee 
Descr. Annual. Stem much branched, somewhat an- 
gular, zigzag, clothed, as are the leaves and calyces, with 
glandular, viscid hairs, emitting a powerful and disagree- 
able smell, which induced its discoverer at one time to 
name the species fetida, and which he compares to that of 
Diosma pulchella. Leaves few, mostly at the forking of the 
ranches, an inch and a half to two inches long, deeply 
Pinnatifid, with laciniated segments, all of which are sharply 
acuminated and pungent. Flowers collected into rather 
arge, dense glomeruli or heads, sessile or peduncled, 
ving beneath them patent bractez, resembling the leaves, 
€xcept that they are smaller; the inner ones of the head 
radually become more simple. Calyx almost funnel- 
shaped, longer than the corolla, cleft nearly to the base 
Mto five, subulate, dark. green, viscid segments. Corolla 
Ypocrateriform : the tube, however, a little swelling up- 
Wards, glabrous, almost white ; the limb apreading 
