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4. Collomia Nutt. 
Erect annual herbs with alternate entire or pinnatifid leaves. Flowers 
in small capitate terminal clusters, subtended by foliaceous bracts. Calyx 
S-cleft, scarious below the sinuses, usually increasing somewhat in fruit. 
Corolla trumpet shaped, the tube slender; the lobes Spreading, sometimes 
slightly unequal. Stamens 5, seated on the corolim~«tubs ahcunequaltintetvels, 
included. Capsudes 3-lobed, smooth and shining. Seeds few, becaning mucilaginous 
when wetted. ; 
o Leaves ovate, pinnatifid I, Ce heterophylla 
© Leaves lanceolate, entire 
2 Corolla 2.5 om. long 2, G. grandiflora 
2, Corolla 10-15 mm. long 3. C. linearis 
le Ce heterophylla Hook. otems 15-25 om. 
tall, the branches ascending, glandular-pubescent; leaf-blades 1<2 cme long, 
ovate, some sometimes entire, mostly pinnately incised, the lobes lanceolate, 
acute, spreading, cuneately attenuate to a petiole : 
Gccrescenty) eied>, both surfaces glandular-pubescent; flowers in axillary and terminal 
clusters, sessile or on short peduncles, subtended by subfoliar bet=mostle > 
entire bracts; calyx 4.5 mm. long, at anthesis, subscarious glandular, the 
@ lobes ACUTE, Chereneeebmente—S—mmeninmienei Pring top=shaped/, the lobes Paes 
lanceolate, equal to the tube; corolla rose-colored, 10-15 mn. long, its 
lobes 2-3 mm. long; capsule 4 mn. long, oval; seeds brown, dull, 1.5 mm. 
long, roughened. 
Infrequent in dry ground at low elevations, = 
2100 £1. 
? O'Gara, Epling and Offord 8157; Slackwater, swore 1291; 
Wiessner's Peak, Sandberg 585. 
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