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BOTA^iTY. 
CoLLOMiA TENELLA, Gray; I c.^ J). 259. Animal, slender, 3 4' high, 
viscous-puberulent ; leaves linear with a long tapering base, entire, obtusish, 
the lowest opposite ; flowers solitary in all the forks almost from the base, 
remote, nearly sessile ; calyx broadly obconic, barely 2" long, the lobes trian- 
gular, acute, shorter than the broadly turbinate tube; corolla purpHsh, at 
length 4" long, narrow, almost salverform ; ovules solitary ; seeds with numer- 
ous spiricles. — In the East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada, and in the Wah- 
satch ; 7,000 feet altitude ; June, July. (900.) 
CoLLOMiA GRACILIS, Dougl. Grmj, I. c, p. 259. Annual, viscid-pubes- 
cent, at length corymbosely much branched and spreading, 2-6' high ; leaves 
sessile, lanceolate or linear or the lowest oval or obovate, entire, the lower 
often opposite ; flowers rather loosely cymose or scattered ; calyx rounded at 
base, nearly 5-parted, with subulate-linear segments ; corolla 5" long, purple 
or violet, nearly salverform, the narrow tube yellowish and seldom exceed- 
ing the calyx; ovules soHtary ; seeds without spiricles. — Very variable. 
From Colorado, Arizona, and Southern California to Washington Territory 
Frequent on the mountains and foot-hills through Nevada and Utah ; 4,500- 
6,000 feet altitude ; April-June. (901.) 
CoLLOMiA LEPTALEA, Gray; /. c.,^. 261. Annual, glabrous or minutely 
glandular ; stem slender, 3-10' high, branching into an eff'use panicle ; pedi- 
cels scattered and 1-flowered, almost capillary, (3-12" long,) naked ; leaves 
all entire, scattered, narrow-linear ; corolla white or pale purple, about ¥ lon^r, 
its slender tube usually twice the length of the calyx, expanding above into 
an ample funnelform throat longer than the ovate lobes ; filaments very une- 
qually inserted in the throat; anthers very short; cells about 6-ovuled. — 
Slopes of the California Sierras ; also found in the Truckee Valley, Nevada, 
near Glendale, by W. W. Bailey. Plate. XXV. Fig. 1. A plant, of the 
natural size. Fig. 2. A flower ; enlarged three diameters. (902.) 
GiLiA^ LiNiFLORA, Bcnth. Graij, I. c, J). 263. Annual, erect or at 
length diflfuse, 6-18' high, minutely hispidulous-hirsute or usually nearly 
glabrous, loosely panicled above ; leaves opposite, frequently alternate above, 
palmately 3-7-parted, the segments i-1' long, nearly fihform, entire ; flowers 
' GILIA, Ruiz & Pav. Corolla from salverform or fmmelforin to campauiilate or rotate. Stamens 
equally inwtTtod in or below the tlimat or siiiiL-^es of the c(>rolla aud mostly c<iual ; filaments not declined, 
naked (rarely pubesi'eiit) at the lias(\ Ovules sometinu's solitary, commonly few or many m each cell. 
Seed-coat (with few c^ceiitioiis) developing mucilage or spirielrs when wetted.— Herbs, or in a few cases 
suflruticose; leaves, &c., various. 
