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Gilia pungens BentJi. 



A small clump of this was found on the very summit of 

 Tahquitz Peak, altitude 8800 ft. It was again found growing in 

 cracks of rocks at about the same altitude on a ridge near Lake 

 Surprise. Nearly all of the flowers found at the latter station, 

 perhaps a hundred in number, were examined and all were 

 al^normal in having 6 calyx-teeth, 6 corolla-lobes, 6 stamens, and 

 a 4-celled ovary. One flower had 6 calyx-lobes, 6 corolla-lobes, 

 one of which was linear and only half as long as the others, and 

 6 stamens, one of these being sterile. The capsules contained 

 7-8 ovules. (Nos. 2323, 2596.) 



Gilia pungens Hookeri Gray. (?) 



A form provisionally placed under this variety is well dis- 

 tributed along all the ridges of the Upper Transition Zone. It 

 differs from the last in being scarcely at all cespitose, with taller, 

 more woody stems and narrower, more rigid leaves. There is, 

 moreover, considerable variation in what is here placed under 

 var. Hookeri and there may be two good varieties on the mountain, 

 besides what is taken for G. pungens. That the number 

 of ovules cannot be used as a distinguishing character in this 

 group was made evident by the examination of capsules from a 

 single clump of plants growing on a peak near Lake Surprise 

 (no. 2597). These plants were apparently all alike, but it was 

 found that in some of the capsules none of the ovules had 

 matured, in others there were 2-3 seeds to each cell, while in one 

 large capsule 25 seeds were counted. A count made on some 

 specimens growing on Tahquitz Ridge showed that some capsules 

 had 2-3 seeds to a cell, while others had 7 to each cell. (Nos. 

 2329, 2418, 2597.) 



Gilia tenuiflora altissima Parish, Eryth. vi. 90 (1898). 



Common throughout the Lower Transition. Since neither 

 the species nor the variety occurs on the higher portions of the 

 mountain all the specimens take on the characters of the variety, 

 which are entirely altitudinal. (Nos. 2211, 2305, 2516, 2544.) 



Gilia virgata Steud. 



Not rare throughout the Lower Transition, flowering in August 

 and September. (Nos. 329, 2635.) 



BOT.— 8. 



