132 Nei.sox : New Plants from Wyoming 



corolla marcescent at the base of the capsule, its lobes short-ovate, 

 obtuse, about half the length of the broadly campanulatc tube, at 

 first erect, but ultimately reflexed ; tube about 2 mm. long : scales 

 shorter than the tube, broadest at the truncate fnnged summit : 

 styles distinct, but slightly unequal, scarcely more than i mm. in 

 length and not more than }l the length of the mature capsule : 

 capsule subglobose, 5 mm. in diameter when mature, indehiscent ; 

 ovules 4, usually only one maturing, seeds broadl}' rcniform. 



Though not very closely allied, this species falls into the 



same section with C. tcuiiijiora Engclm. It has been twice secured, 



both times on the upper Platte. The first time in 1896, Aug. 27, 



in the Canon of the Platte, no. 2768, and the past season by Mr. 



Elias Nelson, Horseshoe Park, July 13, no. 5053. The host 



plants thus far observed are Grindclia^ Solidago and Ilciiantlins. 



Gilia spicata deserta var. no v. 



Habit of the species, but usually shorter-stemmed : stems one or 

 more from a woody root with one or more swollen crowns, lanate : 

 basal leaves crowded on the crowns, mostly simple, linear ; the 

 cauline pinnatifid, the divisions few (3-5), linear ; leaves and divi- 

 sions shorter than in the species : inflorescence crowded-spicate, in 

 dwarf plants approaching capitate : calyx closely and minutely 

 glandular. 



To be distinguished from the species b}' the shorter, stouter, 

 more woolly stems : the more crowded and glandular inflorescence ; 

 the rosulate, crowded, nearly simple basal leaves ; the slender di- 

 visions of the more pinnatifid stem leaves and its habitat. The 

 species is of the sandy foothills in the Rocky Mountains in 

 while this variety has been secured only on the naked, rcd-claj 

 slopes of the Red Desert region. Three collections of this varict)' 

 are at hand: Point of Rocks, June 15, 1898, no. 474.6; Fort 



Steele, June 18, 1898, no. 4832 ; Freeze 

 no. 4843, the latter by Mr. Elias Nelson. 



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Phacelia biennis 



Biennial : root small, somewhat fleshy, conical, nearly straight 

 and vertical, 5-8 cm. long, rarely much exceeding 10 mm. in di- 

 ameter at the crown : stems strict, a single main stem from the crown 

 3-4 dm. high, with occasionally one or two smaller, erect accessory 

 ones, closely canescent and slightly hispid with spreading hairs : 



