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glutinous seeds, breaking transversely, or irregularly when 
soaked.—Gilia prostrata, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xvii. 223; 
Syn. Fl. Suppl. 409. 
Plains and valleys of the interior of California, from Los 
Angeles northward to the lower Sacramento: so near the 
South American type of the genus, namely, N. involucrata, 
Ruiz & Pavon, that there is little to distinguish it except the 
broad foliaceous rachis and short rather stiff segments of the 
leaves. The fruit of the South American N. involucrata ap- 
pears to be much the same, although in that the segments of 
the calyx are less unequal and all five of them trifid. 
3. N. LEUCOCEPHALA, Benth. Pl. Hartw. 324; Gilia leuco- 
cephala, Gray, Proe. Am. Acad. viii. 269, Syn. Fl. ii. part 1. 
142.— Erect, a span high or more, the stem whitish puberulent : 
leaves once or twice pinnatifid, the rachis not broader than the 
divaricate segments: calyx-tube nearly glabrous without: 
white-hairy in the sinuses, little constricted over the capsule. 
the segments erect, all entire, or one or two of them cleft: 
corollas larger than in the preceding. 
N. minima, Nutt. Pl. Gamb. 160: Gilia minima, Gray, 
ll. ec.—A diminutive plant, commonly an inch or two high 
only: leaves with fewer divisions and much more rigid than 
inany of the foregoing: corollas minute, hardly exceeding 
the calyx-segments : calyx-tube exceeding the hyaline pericarp 
Which, in the typical plant of Washington Territory is 1—2- 
seeded, in specimens from nearer the Mexiean border (where 
it seems to be confluent with N. prostrata) 3-celled and 5—6- 
seeded. 
5. N.iNTERTEXTA, Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. ii. 75; Benth. in 
DO. 1. c.: Gilia intertexta, Steudel, Nom. i. 683; Gray, ll. ce., 
ZEgochloa intertexta, Benth. in Bot. Reg. l. e. — From a 
few inches to nearly a foot high; calyx-tube and bases of the 
Subtending bracts densely white-villous: capsule included, 
short and somewhat globose, invariably 3-celled and several- 
