Rydberg : Rocky Mountain flora 633 



species is common in Colorado, in open valleys. It was first col- 

 lected by James in Long's expedition ; but James' specimen in the 

 Torrey herbarium is a mere scrap. T have therefore selected as 

 the type a better specimen, viz. : 



Colorado: Veta Pass, 1896, C. I.. Shear 3 jpo. 



Gilia spergulifolia sp. nov. 



Gilia cemgesta crebrifolia Wats, King's Exp. 5 : 268, in part. 

 1 87 1. Not G. crebrifolia Nutt. 



Low perennial, more or less woody at the base, more or less 

 cespitose ; flowering branches 5-10 cm. high, more or less pu- 

 bescent with white, crisp hairs or puberulent ; leaves linear-fili- 

 form, entire or the upper rarely with 1-2 similar lobes, tipped with 

 a pungent point ; flowers in capitate clusters, which are usually on 

 naked peduncles ; bracts similar to the leaves but smaller ; calyx 

 villous with short subulate pungent teeth ; corolla 4—5 mm. long, 

 white ; lobes oblong, obtuse, a little over 1 mm. long. 



This has been mistaken for G. crebrifolia Nutt., but that species 

 has much shorter flesh}' leaves and very short copiously leafy 

 flowering stems. It is nearer related to G. iberidifolia, from which 

 it differs in the entire leaves and solitary heads ending the 

 branches. 



Wyoming: Headwaters of Tongue River, 1898, Tweedy 576 

 (type). 



Colorado: Arboles, 1899, Baker 5 jy. 



Utah: Bear River Valley, 1869, Watson 917. 



Gilia roseata sp. nov. 



Perennial with a woody base, cespitose; flowering branches 

 about 1 dm. high, purple-tinged, more or less villous or crisp- 

 hairy ; leaves pinnatifid with linear-filiform pungent-pointed lobes, 

 about 2 cm. long ; flowers capitate at the ends of the leafy 

 branches ; bracts similar, shorter, rose-tinged and more villous ; 

 calyx also very pubescent and rose-tinged ; lobes subulate and 

 spinulose-pointed ; corolla about 8 mm. long ; its lobes 4-5 mm. 

 long, elliptic, obtuse. 



This species is nearly related to G. iberidifolia, but differs in the 

 larger flowers (in G. iberidifolia the corolla-lobes are rarely over 

 2 mm. long), the rose-colored bracts, purplish stem and more 

 solitary heads. 



Colorado : Grand Junction, 1892, Alice Easiwood. 



