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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. I have therefore selected as 

 the type a better specimen, viz. : 



Colorado: Veta Pass, 1896, C. L. Shear jj^o. 



Gilia spergulifolia sp. nov. 



Gi/ia congcsta crcbrifolia Wats, King's Exp. 5 : 268, in part. 

 1 87 1. Not G. crcbrifolia 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. crcbrifolia Nutt., but that species 

 has much shorter fleshy leaves and vei)' short copiously leafy 

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

 it differs in the entire leaves and soHtary heads ending the 

 branches. 



Wyoming: Headwaters of Tongue River, 1898, Tweedy f,'j6 

 (type). 



Colorado: Arbolcs, x'^o^c^, r>oker f,^^. 



Utah: Bear River Vallc\-, 1869, Watson gij. 



Gilia roseata sp. nov. 



Perennial with a woody base, cespitose ; flowering branches 

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

 hair}' ; 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 aiid more villous ; 

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

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

 long, elliptic, obtuse. 



This species is nearly related to G. iberidifoha, 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 h.asiivocd. 



