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or spreading, 3-12' higli, minutely pubescent or scabrous ; leaves opposite 
and fascicled, palmately 5-7-parted, the segments linear-filiform, villous- or 
subaculeate-ciliate ; flowers crowded with the bracts into capitate clusters ; 
corolla salverform, the filiform tube 1' or less long, thrice the length of the 
oval or ovate entire lobes and much exserted beyond the hirsute- or villous- 
ciliate bracts and subtending leaves, the limb 8-10" in diameter, lilac, pink 
or nearly white, with a yellow or dark very short and abruptly dilated throat ; 
filaments slender, inserted in the throat, more or less exserted but shorter 
than the corolla-lobes ; anthers short ; cells 6-10-ovuled. — California. Var. 
DETONSA, Gray. Nearly glabrous, the bracts and leaves merely hispidulous- 
ciliate. A somewhat intermediate form was collected near Carson City by 
Dr. Anderson. 
GiLiA MiCRANTHA, Stcud. Gray, I. 2^- 266. Resembling the last, 
slender, 3-7' high ; corolla-tube extremely slender, |-1J' long, 4-6 times ex- 
ceeding its (2-3") lobes ; bracts with short and soft pubescence or sometimes 
hirsute-ciHatc ; corolla yellow, cream-color or purplish- white. — Cahfornia and 
Nevada. 
GiLiA ciLTATA, Bcnth. Graij, I. c, 206. Resembling the preceding, 
rigid, rough, 3-12' high, the taller stems virgate; corolla-tube 6-7" long, 
scarcely exceeding the very hirsute or hispid-ciliate bracts and leaves ; the 
lobes l¥' long ; calyx-lobes acerose. — Rose-color fading to white ; stems gray- 
ish with short pubescence ; leaves and bracts fringed with both rigid and soft 
spreading hairs. California and Nevada. 
GiLiA NUDiCAULis, Gray ; /. c, p. 266. Annual, very glabrous, 1-4' high, 
at length branching from the base ; stem leafless from the cotyledons to the 
capitate inflorescence, which is subtended by an involucre of several ovate- 
lanceolate or lanceolate sessile entire foliaceous bracts ; corolla white, pink or 
yellow, salverform, the tube 3-4" long and thrice the length of the calyx, the 
cuneatc lobes 2-3" long, somewhat undulate-toothed or decidedly 1-3-dentate 
at the broad apex ; anthers sessile in the somewhat dilated throat, short, in- 
cluded ; oviiL^s numerous. — Interior of Oregon, Nevada, (Anderson, Stretch,) 
and South Park, Colorado, (Hall.) Found under sage-brush near Empire 
City, Nevada ; April. (900.) 
GiLiA NuTTALLii, Gray; c, j?. 267. Puberulent; stems numerous from 
a perennial woody base, sleiuler, simple or loosely branched ; leaves opposite, 
mostly shorter tliau Ibc internodes, palmately parted into 3-7 narrow-Unear 
