BOT.-VOL. II.] EASTWOOD-NEW PLANTS FROM CALIFORNIA. 291 



Collected in Hetch-Hetchy Valley, Tuolumne County, 

 by Mr. F. T. Bioletti, in July, 1900. 



^ ID. Phacelia stimulans, sp. nov. 



Stems tall, simple from a branched caudex, becoming 5-6 dm. high, erect, 

 sparsely leaved, generally flowering from the middle, viscid-pubescent, and 

 clothed besides with fine, long, stinging hairs. Radical leaves forming a 

 rosulate cluster, simple or with a few lobes at base, ribbed between the 

 hispid veins, elliptical, acuminate, 3 cm. long; petioles very hispid with 

 spreading hairs. Spikes of the panicle simple, the lowest and uppermost 

 geminate, horizontally spreading, somewhat distant, 5-6 cm. long; pedun- 

 cles very glandular, becoming shorter near the top; pedicels capillary, half 

 as long as the calyx. Divisions of the calyx oblong-spatulate, hispid, net- 

 veined, shorter than the corolla, surpassing the capsule. Corolla tubular, 

 the lobes conniving after anthesis and persistent, held to the calyx by the 

 tangling together of the long, persistent stamens and style. Filaments 

 exserted, conspicuously clothed with long white wool. Capsule ovate- 

 acuminate, hispid; seeds ovate, brown, not glossy, pitted. 



This is allied to P. circinata Jacq. f., but is entirely 

 unlike any of the described species which were formerly 

 included under that species. On account of the stinging 

 hairs of the stems and leaves it might be confused with 

 P. 7iemoraUs Greene; but this has an altogether different 

 habit, pubescence, and inflorescence. 



Collected by the author, July, 1899, in Kings River 

 Canon, not far from the swampy meadow near which 

 campers stop on the way to Bubbs Creek. 



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II. Gilia sparsiflora, sp. nov. 



Annual, a foot or so high, branching above, with slender, spreading stems, 

 minutely glandular-pubescent. Leaves few, terete from the infolding of the 

 margins, about an inch long, tipped with a short bristle. Flowers few, termi- 

 nating the branchlets, two to three in the clusters, sometimes solitary in the 

 upper axils; bracts keeled at base, three-lobed, the middle lobe much larger 

 than the lateral, all subulate-aristate, surpassing the flowers. Calyx mem- 

 branous between the ribs, clothed with dense, white, cottony wool, the un- 

 equal, aristate-subulate divisions as long as the corolla tube. Corolla salver- 

 form, I cm. long, white with some purple dots in the funnel-form throat; the 

 divisions elliptical-obtuse, half as long as the tube. Stamens equally in- 

 serted, with arrow-shaped anthers, obtuse at apex, exserted from the throat 

 of the corolla. Capsule oblong, i cm. long; seeds few, oblique at base, three- 

 sided, generally with rounded angles, developing mucilage and spiracles. 



