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BOTAKY. 
J' long, salverform, the tube rarely twice longer than the calyx and little 
exceeding the obovate lobes, which are shorter than the slender moderately 
exserted filaments; anthers ovate; cells about 6-ovuled ; seed-coat without 
mucilage or spiricles.— Cedar forest on the southern slope of the Uintas, 
(Fremont.) 
GiLiA TENERRiMA, Gray ; I. c, p. 211. Annual, slender, 10' high, very 
diffusely branched from the base with numerous scattei:cd divaricate almost 
filiform branchlets, minutely glandular-pubescent ; leaves alternate, linear or 
the radical ones lanceolate, the upper ones becoming very small, entire ; 
flowers small, solitary, terminal on the branchlets ; calyx less than the broad- 
oval or globose capsule; cells 1-seeded; seed ovoid. — Corolla unknown. 
Bear River Valley, near Evanston ; 6,000 feet altitude ; July. (922.) 
GiLiA iNCONSPicuA, Dougl. Graij, I. c, p. 278. Annual, mostly low, 
(4-12' high,) more or less pubescent or glabrate, branched and loosely pani- 
cled; leaves alternate, the lower 1-2-pin natifid or pinnate-toothed ; flowers 
scattered on slender pedicels, inconspicuously bracted or bractless ; corolla 
purple or blue, rarely white, 3-5" long, funnelform with the throat 
more or less dilated, 2-3 times the length of the calyx, the tube httle or 
not at all exserted, the lobes ovate or obovate and mostly exceeding the 
stanu'iis ; fdamcuts slender, inserted in or just below the sinuses ; cells many- 
ovuled.— Very variable. From the Platte to the Columbia, and southward 
to Arizona and Southeru Cahfornia. Very frequent in the valleys and on the 
foot-hills from the Sierras to the Wahsatch ; 4-6,500 feet altitude ; May^ 
July. (923.) 
Var. siNUATA, Gray. Corolla larger, the tube more or less exserted, the 
lobes ofb^n 2" long and the stamens sometimes cquaHng them ; radical leaves 
often simply pinnatifid.— Near Carson City and in Truckee Pass, Nevada ; 
April, May. (924.) Also, in the latter locality, a form with the stamens ex- 
ceeding the h)bes. (925.) 
Specimens were also cdllected in "Washoe Valley and in the Trinity 
Mountains, Nevada, with the calyx and upper leaves glandular-viscid, thus 
approaching Var. arenakia of the California coast, but with the white corolla 
shorter. (926.) 
GiLiA LEPTOMERiA, Gray ; /. c, p, 278. Annual, low, (3-6',) diffusely 
much branched, obscurely glandular, otherwise glabrous; radical leaves 
spatulate or lanceolate, slightly pinnatifid with short pointed lobes, the cauline 
