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above the middle, Sib ied leaflet the longest, lobes 6’’-2” long, 
4-1” wide, neatly smooth and green, acerose and rigid. The 
order of lobing is the reverse of that in G congesta where the 
leaves are lobed above the middle. Bracts and bracteal leaves 
conspicuously. white-woolly with long and pointed flat hairs, 
the edges of the nearly linear bracts seemingly pectinate be- 
cause of the dense hairs along the edge, tips of the bracts and 
calyx lobes green and smooth and acerose. Calyx about 5” 
long. Corolla about 6” long, with widely spreading, entire, 
obovate, and water-lined lobes 3’ long, white. Some speci- 
mens have leaves with lobes 1-3” long. Stems nearly equably 
leafy to the tip. My No. 10583 from Grand Junction May 22, 
1895, is more andes and more ashy. 
Gilia cosa var. ambigua n. var. Slender, erect, widcte 
¢c ‘Heads small.. Flowers blue, 5-6” long. Anthers 
vont elliptical, exserted. Leaves entire, Aaezcsel dolly 
mostly throughout. Plants about a foot high. Victor, Cali- _ 
foes May 17 og N. 10011, also No. 9917 from Bear Valley, 
California, July 19, 1900. 
Gilia virgata var, Ya ageri. n. var. Plants slender, widely 
and much branched. Heads small. Flowers blue, 6-9” long, — 
with broad oval and lined lobes. Anthers broadly linear. 
Leaves entire or with one or two pairs of lobes at base. iis 
is the desert form. Skull Valley Arizona No. 10250, Palm 
Spring California No. 10249 Wickenberg Arizona No. 10253, — 
- Franconia Arizona No. 9918, Moapa Nevada No. 9919, Hill- 
_ side Arizona No. 10279, Congress Junction Arizona No. 10251. 
I regard the types as Nos. 10279 and 10253. Also I refer here 
No. 9936 from Yucca Arizona May 17 1884, La Verkin Utah 
No. 5189q and 5194, Springdale Utah No. 51211, Yager’s north 
of Tucson Arizona No. 9935, Rio Tonto Basin Arizona No. 
9934. 
Gilia arenicola n. sp. Needles California May 3 1884 No. 
10447, Kelso California May 2 1906 No. 9955, growing in sand. 
- Also gathered by Mrs. Brandegee in the Mojave region. Sec- 
_ tion Dactylophyllum. Lower leaves opposite, upper alternate, 
all about 6” long, mostly forked above the middle, sometimes 
3-lobed near the base, each lobe 1-nerved, and the base 2-3- 
nerved according to the number of lobes, rigid, acerose, green, 
ciliate. Internodes short and the whole plant congested, 1-2’ 
not reduced above, bracteal ones the same. Flowers apparently 
