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brownish-red from the presence of coloring matter, glabrous; 
leaves in fours, linear, mostly six to nine lines long, one line 
broad, inclined to be rigid, glabrous or very slightly pruinose on 
the margins; mid-rib rather prominent below and continuous with 
the stem-angles; flowers axillary and terminal, polygamous; fruit 
densely hispid with straight bristles, pedicels reflexed. 
Colorado, Southern Utah; Mancos, Colorado, A. Eastwood, 
June, 1892; S. W. Colorado, T. S. Brandegee, Nos. 1175, 1176. 
Nos. 1175, 1176 are perhaps referred to by Gray, in the Synop- 
tical Flora, as possibly belonging to G. Mathewsii, Gray, but the 
plant is certainly distinct from that species. Its nearest ally is 
G. multiflorum Watsont. 
G. ambiguum. Wholly herbaceous, growing in low tufts from 
creeping stems, plant grayish with hirsute pubescense; leaves 
in fours, but appearing several in the upper whorls from the pres- 
ence of two short branches at the nodes, linear to linear-lanceo- 
late, acute or acuminate, thin and flaccid; flowers polygamous or 
dicecious, greenish-yellow, ovary pubescent, immature fruit appa- 
rently fleshy, glabrous; mature fruit not seen. 
Description based on a single plant bearing the datum, Yolo 
Bolo, Yolo Co., Cal., T. S. Brandegee, Sept. 20, 1892. 
It is a somewhat ambiguous species, perhaps to be placed after 
G. Californicum. 
G. sparsiflorum. Perennial, erect or sometimes reclining 
ing; stems a foot or two long, glabrous or nearly so; leaves in 
fours, unequal, oval or ovate, mostly rather large, eight lines 
long and five lines broad, or leaves of some plants exceeding this 
size, others not attaining it, cuspidate-pointed, often indistinctly 
three-nerved, thin and membranous, varying from nearly gla- 
brous to pubescent with minute and short hairs; flowers axillary 
or terminal, pedicels capillary; fruit baccate, glabrous, at length 
reflexed. 
Central California: Big Meadows, Plumas County, Mrs. R. M. 
Austin, 1878; Deer Creek, Sequoia Grove, Tulare County, W. 
R. Dudley, No. 643, 1895; Antelope Cafion, Tehachapi Moun- 
tains, W. R. Dudley, No. 377: Giant Forest, Tulare County, 
