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that species and V. Nuttallii cannot be separated, for the pubes- 
cent ovary does not hold. 
Gilia sinister n. sp. Section Collomia and apparently allied 
to G. aristella. Annual, slender, erect, much branched above 
and branches repeatedly branched as if racemosely and, with the 
flowers, appearing racemose, but always opposite a bract, not in 
the forks except now and then a single flower on a plant is so 
situated, glutinous hairy except the glabrous leaves and the calyx 
which is glabrous at least after flowering; leaves linear-lanceo- 
late, acuminate at both ends, barely petioled, the larger ones 
about 1’ long, folded and so seeming to be obliquely linear, en- 
tire, 2”? wide, gradually passing into minute bracts at the top; 
flowers single on filiform pedicels, nearly erect, light-blue, 2” 
long, funnel-form; pedicels normally 3-6” long, but when bracte- 
ate in the middle by the abortion of a flower then often 1’ long, 
rarely a pedicel is found 1’ long without a bract; lobes ovate, 
streaked; throat dotted; proper tube 1” long and equaling the 
calyx; stamens very unequally inserted; flowering calyx minute, 
narrow, acute at base, 1’ long, 5-striped, otherwise white and 
hyaline, 15-nerved in fruit, subulate lobes 4” jong, not aristi- 
form in flower but cuspidate in fruit; fruiting calyx narrowly 
oblong, enlarging with the capsule till it is broadly campanulate 
and 14’ long, capsule as long as calyx and teeth, nearly oval, 
not narrowed nor stipitate at base, cells 2-seeded, seeds without 
Spiricles. This has the general appearance of G. inconspicua 
but without the basal leaves. Middle Valley, southern Idaho, 
July 7, 1899, in gumbo soil. 
Spirzea lucida Dougl. Greene in Pittonia 2 221 says of this, 
stems \......... of annual growth from horizontal running and 
woody not deepseated rootstocks or roots, lower leaves small and 
obovate, the upper oval, 1 or 2 inches long, acutish, incisely ser- 
rate, flowers white.”” The stems are not from annual growth 
from horizontal rvotstocks or roots but they arise the same as in 
small forms of Neillia, the lowest leaves are obovate to oval and 
nearly entire and obtuse, the upper leaves are larger, ovate- 
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