RYDBERG: Rocky MOUNTAIN FLORA 633 
_ Species is common in Colorado, in open valleys. It was first col- 
_ lected by James in Long’s expedition; but James’ specimen in the 
Torrey herbarium is a mere scrap. I have therefore selected as 
the type a better specimen, viz. : . 
CoLtorapo: Veta Pass, 1896, C. L. Shear 3590. 
=| Gilia congesta crebrifolia Wats, King’s Exp. 5: 268, in part. 
1871. Not G. crebrifolia Nutt. 
Low perennial, more or less woody at the base, more or less 
cespitose ; flowering branches 5~10 cm. high, more or less pu- 
_ bescent with white, crisp hairs or puberulent ; leaves linear-fili- 
_ form, entire or the upper rarely with 1-2 similar lobes, tipped with 
a pungent point ; flowers in capitate clusters, which are usually on 
* naked peduncles ; bracts similar to the leaves but smaller ; calyx 
villous with short subulate pungent teeth ; corolla 4-5 mm. long, 
white ; lobes oblong, obtuse, a little over 1 mm. long. 
This has been mistaken for G. crebrifolia Nutt., but that species 
has much shorter fleshy leaves and very short copiously leafy 
flowering stems. It is nearer related to G. beridifolia, from which 
it differs in the entire leaves and solitary heads ending the 
“4 _ branch es. 
_- Wyominc: Headwaters of Tongue River, 1898, dears 576 
_ (type). 
: Cotorapo: Arboles, 1899, Baker 534. 
Uran: Bear River Valley, 1869, Watson 977. 
’ Gilia spergulifolia sp. nov. 
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v Gilia roseata sp. nov. 
Perennial with a woody base, cespitose; flowering branches 
about 1 dm. high, purple-tinged, more or less villous or crisp- 
hairy ; leaves pinnatifid with linear-filiform pungent-pointed lobes, 
branches ; bracts similar, shorter, rose-tinged and more villous ; 
_ calyx also very pubescent and rose-tinged; lobes subulate an nd 
- spinulose- pointed ; corolla about 8 mm. long ; its lobes 4-5 mm. 
long, elliptic, obtuse. 
This species is nearly related to G. zberidifolia, but dilfeias in the 
larger flowers (in G. tberidifolia the corolla-lobes are rarely over 
- 2 mm. long), the rose-colored bracts, purplish stem and more 
_ Solitary heads. 
Cotorapo: Grand Junction, 1892, Alice Eastwood. 
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