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long, the lobes acuminate and lacerate ; plants forming a 

 round tuft. Needles, California. May. 1884. Typical G. lepto- 

 meria has sparse flowers and short corolla. 

 Gilia brecciarum n. sp. 



Allied to G. inconspicua; cymosely divaricate and low an 

 nual; branched from the base; root leaves like those of G. in- 

 conspicua var. sinuata, linear, deeply much toothed with tri- 

 angular and aculeate teeth, stem leaves conspicuous, sessile, 

 ovate, green, deeply toothed; bracts large, ovate, 1-3 lines 

 long; upper part of plant very glandular-hairy, so much as to 

 almost conceal the calyx; calyx ovate with narrow and tri- 

 angular and acicular tips 1 line long; flowers 2 lines long, pur- 

 ple, with short lobes, and the two barely surpassing the calyx ; 

 pedicels mostly none, rarely 2-3 lines ^long; flowers in short 

 and one-sided racemes. Contact, Nevada, July 26, 1901. 

 Gilia latiflora var. cana. n. var. 



Leaves repand-dentate, rigid, densely hoary. 1-2 inches 

 long, the rest of the plant glandular-hairy ; pedicels 2-6 lines 

 ong; flowers with yellow throat and dark-purple tube and 

 obes, tube 6-8 lines long, the throat funnel-form and 2 lines 

 long, lobes oval and 2 lines long. Lone Pine. California, 

 among granite rocks at 7000 feet alt.. May 14, 1897. 

 Giha latifolia Gray. 



A new description of this plant seems desirable. It is 

 allied to G. scopulorum ; whole plant vellowish-grecn. erect, 

 annual, paniculately branched from the base, 4-12 inches high, 

 hairy throughout and glutinous; root leaves many, about 3 

 inches long and 1-2 inches wide, obovate. the base rarely in- 

 cised or with a small pair of lobes, coarsely dentate with spin- 

 ulose teeth which are 1-2 lines long, thick-veined, leathery; 

 petioles very stout, margined, one inch or less long; lower 

 ^ em eaves similar but smaller, gradually reduced toward the 

 I owers to small, rigid, subulate, and acerose bracts ; flower- 

 ing calyx campanulate, 1 line long with subulate lobes as long 

 r.nrni! 7, ^^y V f"^^^^"? to V/, to 2 lines long ; corolla 

 r-^lvv ra V 1 ""^^ ^"^' *^^ ^'■'^^^ ^"'^e about as long as the 

 the lohr. n?li T 1^ r ^}'^^^^ widened above to the lobes, 

 onein flowe r f >"'r.^°"?= ^'"^'''^^^ ^^^f^^"^' ^ ^^^^ ''"^^ 

 manv ''^^^'' ^ "'^^ ^°"^^ ^"d erect: flowers 



1.™ long:. My specmens from the Needles, 'CalifornU., have 



