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LCESELTA Linn. § Giliopsts. Flores paniculati vel sparsi, ebrac- 

 teati. Corollas lobi subcuneati, apice eroso-truncati vel subtridentati. 

 Folia augustissima nuda. (Ovula in loculis 8-10. Semina ut in 

 spec, propriis exalata!) 



L<E?ELiA TENUiFOLiA. E basi frutescents multicanlis, spithamaea 

 ad pedalem, glabella ; ramis gracilibiis apice laxe paiicifloris ; foliis 

 fere acerosis cuspidato-mucronatis integerrimis vel inferioribus sub- 

 linearibus pauci-pinnatipartitis, lobis subulatis ; calycis lobis subiilatis 

 tubo dimidio brevioribus ; corolla punicea tubulo-o-infuiidibuliformi 

 (poUicari), tubo lobis 3-4-plo longiore ; genitalibus longius exsertis. — 

 Northern borders of Lower California, Tantillas Mountains, especially 

 at the entrance of the Great Canon, W. Dunn, E. Palmer. Longer 

 leaves an inch long; the upper gradually reduced to small subulate 

 bracts, but none at the base of the calyx. One lobe of the corolla 

 sejiarated from the others by deeper sinuses ; the long capillary fila- 

 ments (which are inserted low down on the tube) more or less de- 

 clined to that side, and their summits a little incurved. 



«^ L(ESELiA EFFDSA. Spithamtea ad pedalem, e radice annua laxe 

 ramosissima, glabella ; ramis ramulisque paniculato-floribundis gr^jf il- 

 limis rigidulis ; foliis omnibus fere filiformibus mucrone apiculatis 

 integerrimis (radicalibus evanidis) ; calycis dentibus brevibus latis ; 

 corolla brevi-infundibuliformi purpurea, tubo calycem paullo superante 

 lobis intequalibus baud longiore ; genitalibus (sat declinatis apice incur- 

 vis) corollam parum excedentibus. — Tantillas Mountains, borders of 

 Lower California, Dr. E. Palmer. Stem sometimes as if lignescent 

 at base ; but the root plainly annual. Leaves from half to a quarter 

 of an inch long, or less. Pedicels sometimes as long as the flowers, 

 mostly shorter than the calyx. Corolla (" pink," but in the dried 

 specimens violet-purple) barely half an inch long, the limb rather 

 ample and spreading, one or two lobes rather smaller and more sep- 

 arated. Capillary stamens inserted low on the tube of the corolla. 

 Ovules, seeds, &c., as in the preceding. 



Except for the declined stamens and some inequality of the corolla, 

 these two species would be referred to Gilia, the former to the section 

 Ipomopsis, the latter to Eucjilia. But they accord with Loeselia, 

 except in the total absence of dilated bracts, which, considering the 

 case of Gilia, cannot be the generic character. The seeds do not 

 supply a character. These in Loeselia, as remarked in the yet un- 

 published portion of the Genera Plantarum by Bentham and Hooker, 

 develop mucilage when wet ; the mucilage-cells are underneath a 



