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3 Linsnthastrum wwon 
Tufted vuberulent permnials with rather stiffish, Phlox-like stems, 
the upver internodes mostly shorter than the leaves; leaves 5-7 parted, 
the segments acicular, entire, the midnerves obscure. Flowers borne in 
the upper axils, scercely exserted from the tufted leaves but sometimes 
shovry, sesSilee Calyx campanulate, the tube short, not scarious=membranous 
below the sinuses of subulate teethe Corolla-tube funnelform, the lobes 
5, obovate, rounded, lighter colored. Stamens inserted just below the 
throat, the filaments glavrous. Pistil included, nearly egualling the 
tube, Secds 2-3 in each chamber, 
lel. “uttallii (Graye) Hwan, Rather woody branching crown, the stems 
straw-colored 
several, 15-20 cm. tall, puberulent,Yleaf segments 1-1.5 om, long, less 
than 1 mm, broad, flat, glabrous but scoaringly ciliolate: due to the 
relative shortness of the internodes especially in the wover parts, the 
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leaves overlap, forming ehere-tike tufts near the tivs of the stems, those 
in the lower nal? soon withering; calyx 8-10 mm, long, the tube 2 m, long, 
the teeth lance-subulate, vory acute, puberulous; corollaetube yellow, 8-9 
mm, long, glabrous .ithin, pubescent with curling hairs without, the lobes 
4-5 mmm, long, white or pale blues; capsules narrowly obovate, 5 mm, long, 
smooth, (Gilia Nuttallii Gray) 
Barren ridge south of Pole lt., 5000 ft., iinling & Kompf, The herbage 
is distinctly hay-sgcecented. this genus is most closely related to Linan- 
thus but diifers impertuntty from that very natural group of annusls in 
its habit-form, in the calyces not being scarious below the sinuses of the 
teeth, and its more northern montane distribution suggesting a different 
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oricin Seem Linanthus, from Levtodactylon, on the other hand, it differs 
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in having hardly pungent, closely onposite, falsely whorled leaves, the 
segments not at all aristiform, whis species and a sccond from Southwestorn 
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Univced Stases, are best understood when admitted a smali genus of transition- 
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