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shading to pink, 6-10 mm. long, sparsely beset with gland-tipped hairs, 

 its lobes ovate, obtuse, reflexed, 2 mm. long; petals deltoid-reniform, 1 

 mm. long; stamens equalling the petals: berry viscid, red, not juicy, in- 

 sipid, 10-14 seeded, ripening in September. 



Type collected at the base of tlie Sierra Club monument at the summit of 

 Mount Rose, Washoe County, Nevada : elevation 10,800 feet, being No. 

 1160, August 17, 1905, P. B. Kennedy. 



Allied to R. cereuin Dougl. but much smaller in regard to size of bush, 

 leaves, and flowers, and much more viscid. The branches are extremely 

 short and rigid. The berry in R. cereum is described as rarely containing 

 more than 3 large seeds, while this has numerous, small, angular seeds: 



Named in honor of Professor J. E. Church, Jr., wlio has ascended Mount 

 Rose many, many times, both in the heat of summer and the heavy snows 

 of winter, and to whom we are indebted for excellent specimens contain- 

 ing the ripe berries. 



Gilia tnontana sp. nov. 



Perennial, depressed-caespitose, with a stout lignescent caudex: flowers 

 capitate : leaves crowded on short tufted shoots, fioccose-tomentose, mostly 

 5-lobed, a few at* the base linear, bilobed, and trilobed ; lobes linear- 

 lanceolate, slightly pungent, 4-6 mm. long, with petioles about 6 mm. long, 

 bearing a few scattered bracts, similar to the leaves: numerous purplish 

 lobed bracts among the flowers : flowers numerous, white to pink, clusters 

 12-25 mm. across ; calyx very slender, beset with long, slender hairs 4 mm, 

 long, about equalling the tube of the corolla, calyx lobes linear-lanceolate, 

 slender-subulate : each flower subtended by a linear-lanceolate bracteole ; 

 corrolla 6 mm. long, tube about twice the length of the ovate rounded en- 

 tire lobes : capsule ovoid, glabrous, 2 mm. long, one-seeded. 



Allied to G. caesoitosa (Gray) A. Nels.; Summit of Mount Rose, Washoe 

 County, Nevada, August 17, 1905, No. 1170 (type), P. B. Kennedy, at 

 10,800 feet ; also from the same place, but past flowering, September 29, 

 1902, No. 694, P. B. Kennedy ; also from Tinkers Knob, Eldorado County, 

 California, Sierra Nevada, elevation 9,020 feet, August 10, 1901, P. B. 

 Kennedy and S. B. Doten, No. 279. 



Phlox dejecta sp. nov. 



Plant resembling a desert moss : tufts less than 3 cm. high : branches of 

 the caudex somewhat tortuous : leaves linear, miicronulate, hirsute to 

 pubescent, 4-6 mm. long, imbricated : corolla white, the tube twice as long 

 as the calyx ; corolla-lube 12 nim. long ; calyx teeth prominent, rigid, hir- 

 sute, 5 mm. long, linear-lanceolate, with a very sharp spinulose tip : capsule 

 ovoid, glabrous, 3 mm. long, one-seeded. 



Allied to P. bryoldes Nutt. and P. muscoides Nutt., but in no sense lanate 

 or canescent, with a very different calyx and corolla. Growing abundantly 

 in broad moss-like mats on tlie summit of Mount Rose, Washoe County, 

 Nevada, at 10,800 feet, August 17, 1905, No. 1159 (type), P. B. Kennedy. 



