72 PITTONIA. 
The plant is common in the locality, and doubtless else- 
where: in the dried specimen possible to be taken for a small 
variety of G. squarrosa which is a stout and coarse dis- 
gustingly mephitic-scented plant with thrice larger deep blue 
. corollas and a more herbaceous foliage. 
GrLIA (NavaRRETIA) PARVULA. Low but stoutish with 
numerous short branches, 2—4 inches high: glandular-pu- 
berulent, very viscid and aromatie : lowest leaves linear, entire, 
the upper rather broader and with subulate teeth or segments: ' 
corolla about 4 lines long, broadly tubular-funnelform, light 
blue: stamens very unequal, the 2 posterior ineluded, the 3 
anterior long-exserted and declined. 
Dry hills near Crystal Springs, San Mateo County, Califor- 
nia, June 11, 1887. 
Related to G. heterodoxa and G. viscidula but with the best 
of floral characters to distinguish it from both. The herbage 
is quite strong scented, but neither hircine like that of G. 
cotulefolia nor mephitie as in G. squarrosa. 
PENTSTEMON LEUCANTHUS. Stems erect from a woody base, 
4—6 feet high : plant pallid and glaucous throughout: leaves 
linear-lanceolate, entire : thyrsus narrow, the flowers short- 
pedicelled: sepals ovate with a prominent acuminate tip: 
corolla white, 1—14 inches long, the tube narrow, the limb 
bilabiate with rather short spreading lobes: anthers horse- 
shoe-shaped, their edges muricate: sterile filament naked, 
obtuse at the short flattened apex. 
San Rafael Mountains, Santa Barbara County, June, 1887, 
Mr. John Spence. 
A species related to P. heterophyllus, which is a low and 
deep green plant with purple corollas as broad but only half 
as long as in the present species; also with a more elongated 
retuse tip to the sterile filament. If the flowers in this large 
and fine novelty are “pure white” as they are said to be, it 
should be desired in cultivation. 
