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favored by the discoverer with a full series of freshly gathered speci- 

 meus. I am convinced that two species are to be distinguished, and 

 that they may be cliaracterized as follows. 



S. ODOKATA, Ell. in Nutt. Gen. Addend., & Sk. i. 478 ; Gray, 

 Chloris Bor.-Am. 15, t. 2, & Syn. Fl. ii. 49, ubi syn. Squaniis 

 caiilem lA. m. imbricantibus lato-ovatis ; floribus breviter spicatis 

 parum cernuis ; sepalis oblongis corollam " carneam " sulxequautibns. 



— Maryland, near Baltimore, to North Carolina, from the middle 

 country to the 1^1 ue Ridge. 



S. Rkynoldsi.e. Gracilior; squamis parvulis (lin 1-3 longis) 

 hand imbricatis ; spica angusta secunditlora nuda e floribus sat nume- 

 rosis mox nutantibus ; sepalis ovatis seu ovato-lanceolatis corolla alba 

 (vix lin. 3 longa) dimidio brevioribus. — E. Florida, near St. Augus- 

 tine and on Indian River, flowering in November and December, 

 under scrub oaks, in dry sandy soil : collected only by 3Iiss Reynolds, 

 whose name the species is to commemorate. The plant is said at 

 times to exhale a slight spicy fragrance. 



Polemoniacece. 



GiLiA BELLA. Dactylophyllum., post G. auream, e basi ramosa ; 

 caulibus filiformibus spitbamreis licvibus ; foliis parcis brevissimis tri- 

 partitis cum nodo villosulis, segmentis lato-linearibus carinatis ; pedun- 

 culis seu potius ramis floridis sx^pe proliferis flores 2-3 inter bracteas 

 subsessiles gerentibus ; calycis lobis folia referentibus crasso-carinatis 

 fere ad apicem hyalino-marginatis ; corolla infundibulari-campanulata 

 (lin. o longa), tubo calycem tequante flavo, fauce atro-purpureo macu- 

 lata, lobis violaceis flabelliformibus integerrimis tubo sequilongis ; fila- 

 mentis basi pilosulis ; ovarii loculis multiovulatis ; seminibus madidis 

 baud mucilaginosis. — At Hanson's Ranch, Lower California, near the 

 boundary, Orcutt, 1884. A pretty species, abundantly floriferous. 



GiLiA {Piiloganthea) Macombit, Torr. in lierb. A basi vel 

 caudice suffrutescente multicaulis, puberula; caulibus 1-2-pedalibns 

 glomerato-thyrsifloris ; foliis rigidulis in segmenta 3-G rhachi hand 

 latiore pinnatipartitis vel superioribus integerrimis filiformi-linearibus ; 

 corolla violacea hypocraterimorpha, tubo sursum leviter ampliato semi- 

 pollicari calyce hirsutulo vel glabello 3-4-plo longiore, lobis a^qualibus 

 obovatis mucronulatis ; staminibus ina^qualiter insertis 2-4 (sirpius 3) 

 e fauce breviter exserlis, filamentis rectis ; ovarii loculis 3-6-ovulatis. 



— This is Gtlia muUiJlora, Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 146, in part, and 

 part of Collomia Cavanillesiana, Gray, Syn. Fl. ii. 136, being Wright's 

 noo 1647, and an imperfect specimen of it, collected by Newberry 



