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cymosely branched above; leaves clustered at the base and 

 scattered on the stems but much smaller there, all pinnately 

 parted into several broadly-linear, obtusish lobes, but stem 

 leaves with shorter lobes, thickish, glabrous or with scattered 

 hairs, inclined to be glaucous; petioles almost none; internodes 

 elongated ; flcwers cymose, on filiform pedicels about 6 lines 

 long with the upper portion glabrous and the lower (with adja- 

 cent stem only) glandular, whole plant otherwise glabrous, pedi- 

 cels never reflexed, erect; flowers yellowish-white, 2 to 2}^ lines 

 long, the upper half funnel-form, the lower half tubular, about 

 as long as calyx; calyx a line long, teeth triangular, acute but 

 not aristate, }i the tube; capsule globose-oval, as long as calyx; 

 seeds developing mucilage and spiricles. Plants about a span 

 high, growing in sand on Darwin Mesa, Argus Mts., Cal., at 

 5000 ft. alt., May 1, 1897. This differs from G. micromeria Gray 

 in the spiricles and mucilage, the glandular pedicels, and funnel- 

 form-tubular and longer corolla. 



Gilia Calcarea n. sp. Section Giliandra Gray. Biennial,. 



2 ft. high, erect, corymbosely branched throughout with innum- 

 erable racemose subdivisions (but flowers centrifugal in order of 

 anthesis) the whole forming an obovate mass fully a foot broad 

 completely covered with single not glom erate flowers, sparsely 

 glandular-stipitate pubescent throughout except the lower 

 leaves; fruiting pedicels 2 lines long, erect; lower leaves about 



3 inches long, rather stout, pinnately parted below into narrowly 

 to broadly-oblong or even obovate, obtuse but apiculate leaflets,. 

 1 to 2 lines wide, leaflets inclined to be larger toward the tips, 

 the uppermost divisions pass into mere lobes or teeth of the 

 enlarged terminal lobe, occasionally a lobe is found with a tooth 

 on the lower side; stem leaves linear and passing into broadly- 

 linear bracts which are mostly 6 lines long, the middle stem 

 leaves have 1 to several linear lobes, all leaves have minute 

 pungent apiculations; calyx in flower campanulate-cylindric, 

 barely a line long, with green and broad bands which terminate 

 in deltoid to ovate triangular obtuse but cuspidate teeth which 

 equal }i the tube, calyx enlarges in fruit to about i}4 lines long, 

 closely investing the oval and obtuse capsule which is about : 



