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hyaline-margined bracts, 10-12 mm. long, these pubescent along 

 the middle with long curled white hairs, and tomentose at base : 

 flowers about 15 : mature akenes cylindric, slightly constricted at 

 the apex, not beaked, pale greenish or yellowish, 10-striate, not 

 costate, 7 mm. long, the copious white pappus 5 mm. long. 



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Collected by the writer at Ellensburg, Wash., 20 May, 1897, 

 no. 2704. The pubescence of the involucre is just that of C. 

 rostrata Coville, but the present plant differs in its smaller size, its 

 very different akenes, and in the absence of hirsute pubescence. 



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Dodecatheon viscidum 



Whole 



plant even to the calyx and capsule viscid puberulent 

 with stipitate glands : caudex short, bearing many coarse fibrous 

 roots : leaves lanceolate or oblong, obtuse, entire, 3-6 cm. long, 

 narrowed at base into a petiole half as long : scapes usually single, 

 stoutish, erect, 3-4 dm. high : umbel one- to several-flowered : 

 calyx-lobes narrowly triangular, attenuately acute, four times as 

 long as the tube, about one half as long as the capsule : corolla 

 reddish : stamens free to the very base, the flat filaments short and 

 included in the throat of the corolla : capsule cylindric, narrow, 



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sessile near the apex when ripe. 



Collected by the writer ten miles west of Spangle, Wash., 24 

 ay, 1898. The specimens are in fruit/only a few shrivelled flowers 

 being found. The species is nearest D. conjugens Greene, from 

 which its glandular character easily distinguishes it. The plant 

 was found on a grassy hillside in one spot only, and is apparently 



very rare. 



Gilia Klikitatensis Suksdorf in herb. 



§ Navarretia. Annual, erect, slender, strict, 5-20 cm. tall, the 

 tern merely puberulent: cauline leaves frequently opposite, 1-2 

 cm. long, pinnately 5-7-divided into filiform acerose segments, 

 these again more or less pinnately spinescent, puberulent, becom- 

 ing glabrate : flowers densely glomerate in a single terminal 

 duster, rarely two or three, the heads 1-2 cm. in diameter; bracts 

 like the leaves but rather more spinescent, especially the caudal 

 termination, the whitish rhachis more or less broadened and flat- 

 tened, its dorsal surface and edges covered with soft retrorse white 

 hairs, the segments merely puberulent : calyx-tube largely scanous, 

 pilose, the unequal more or less spinose lobes and the veins green- 

 ! sh = corolla pale (lavender?), 8 mm. long, its slender tube equal- 

 >ng or exceeding the calyx-lobes, its own lobes obovate, distinctly 



