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alternate, mostly linear and entire, reduced on the branches to minute bracts; 
flowers numerous, very loosely panicled, the slender pedicels sometimes 
shorter than the calyx ; corolla nearly white, slender funnelfonn, aj^proaching 
salverform, li" to at length 3" long, the tube from once becoming twice the 
length of the calyx and of the ovate sometimes sinuate-toolhed lobt^s ; 
stamens inserted in the sinuses, shorter than the lobes; ovules iiiiiiicroiis ; 
seeds small, i" or less in length, the close coat without mucilage or spi rides. — 
Resembling depauperate forms of G. inconspicua^ biii well marked by the 
narrower corolla and by the seeds. Truckce Pass of Uuj Virginia iMoiiiilains, 
near Humboldt Lake, and in Unionville Valley, Nevada, and on Slaiisbiiry 
Island in Salt Lake; May, June. Plate XXVL Fig. G. A j)lan1 ; naliiral 
size. Fig, 8. Ayoungflower. Figs. 7 and 0. Older flowns, w it li clongafcd 
corollas. Fig. 11. Mature opened ra])snle; all enlarged foui- diainclfrs. (i''i7.) 
GiLiA MiCROMERiA, Gray; /. c, 2^. 279. Annual, nearly gla])r()us, lax 
and slender, 2-4' high, diffusely much branched; radical and lower rauline 
leaves pinnatifid with oblong obtuse divaricate lobes, on Die branches linear 
and entire; flowers minute, scattered on long and ra])illary spreadinij: or at 
length recurved pedicels ; corolla nearly while, oblong-eanipaiiidale, 1" long, 
little exceeding the calyx, the lobes sliorl ; stamens inserted nearly in the 
sinuses, shorter than the corolla; capsule globose, longer than the style, 
cells about G-ovuled; seeds as in the last. — Truckee Valley, and near Hum- 
boldt Lake, and in the East Humboldt ^fountains, Nevada; 4-6,000 feet 
altitude; May-July. Plate XXVL Fig. 12. A jdant ; natural size. 
Fig. 13. A flower; enlarged eight diameters. Fig. 14. Tlu^ corolla, laid 
open. Fig. 15. Mature capsule; enlarged four diameters. (028.) 
GiLlA CAMPANULATA, Gray; I. c, p. 27I>. Annual, small, 1-2' high, 
spreading, somewhat viscid-pubescent; lower leaves lanceolate, sparingly 
pinnatifid-toothed, on the branches linear-lanceolate, sometimes entire; tlovvcrs 
loosely panicled on slender pedicels ofl-en shorter than the flower; corolla 
nearly white, 3-4" long, canipanulate, moderately il-lohed, t wiee lonirer than 
the calyx, the included stamens inserted into the broad base : ant hers obloni:: 
capsule globose, cells abmit 7-()Vule<l.- Sandy sa-e-plain near the P,!- PhmkI 
of the Truckee, Nevada ; May. Plate XX VI. Fig. IG. Plant ; natural 
size. Fig. 17. Flower, laid open ; enlarged two diameters. Fig. 18. Mature 
capsule ; enlarged four diameters. (929.) 
Polemonium confertum, Gray ; c, p. 280. Perennial, a span or less 
