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diata this is nearly ]A, smaller, with smaller flowers and short 

 peduncles, and stems very many and leafy. 



Phacelia perityloides Coville is a good species and not ref- 

 erable to P. glechomaefolia Gray. The writer has collected it 

 and carefully studied it in the field. 



Amsimckia car>josa. n. sp. Allied to A. vernicosa H. & A- 

 Bot. Beechey 370. 1 to 2 ft. high, erect, branched below, with 

 long, rather strict, rarely branching branches, glaucous when 

 fresh, annual, very leafy; leaves usually double the internodes, 

 3 inches or less long, narrowly lanceolate to ovate-acuminate, 

 folded, sessile with cordate base, softly fleshy and pulpy, wilting 

 quickly but drying slowly, when fresh they appear nearly smooth 

 except with slender and sparse acicular hairs on the margins 

 and occasionally with one or more on the midrib, when dry most 

 of the leaves are covered with peltate, white pustules with or 

 without a minute cusp; inflorescence with 1 to 4 glomerules ar- 

 ranged racemosely, which are nearly sessile or leafy bracted 

 when peduncled, elongating to about 3 inches, rarely 6 inches in 

 fruit, inflorescence rather sparsely setose-hispid with tapering 

 yellow-tipped needles 2 lines long with large pustulate base; 

 calyx with oblong-lanceolate lobes in flower and 3 lines long, in 

 fruit acuminate-lanceolate and about 8 lines long; corolla tube 

 5 to 6 lines long, golden-yellow; stamens inserted in the throat; 

 limb barely 2 lines long; fruit of 3 narrowly elliptical to lanceo- 

 late obtuse nutlets, 2*4 to 3 lines long, with concave sides, 

 straight, smooth and shining, scar very narrow, edges sharp 

 and thin. Shepherd's Canyon, Inyo Co. Cal. 4600 ft. alt. April 

 30, 1897. Growing along the roadside among loose rocks. 

 Whether this is a form of A. vernicosa I cannot tell as that 

 species is so poorly described in the Botany of California and 

 the Synoptical Flora that its character cannot be made out, and 

 I have not access to the original description or type. 



Gilia i.a'i iflora var. cana. Leaves densely and perma- 

 nently white-woolly. Flowers longer and paler. Lone Pine, 

 Inyo Co. Cal., 4600 ft. alt., April 27, 1897. 



Gilia ochroleuca n. sp. Section Eugilia Bentham. An- 

 nual, delicate, widely branching from the base and branches 



