134 PITTONIA. 
Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 1. c. and Syn. Fl. I. c.—The most 
common of all species, infesting fields and waysides every- 
where; readily known by its extreme viscosity and strong 
mephitie odor. The corollas are not quite half as large as in 
the preceding, of a bright, or pale blue eolor, and exactly 
salverform. 
ll. N. wELLITA = Gilia mellita, Greene, Pittonia, i. 71 & 
72.—Described in the place referred to from my own speci- 
mens obtained in San Mateo County. But there are, in the 
herbarium of the Academy, plenty of ‘specimens from Marin 
County, collected by Mrs. Curran. It is doubtless a common 
species, much like a small form of the last, but readily known 
by the sweet odor of its viscous herbage, and by its very 
small and pale corollas. Tt is, moreover, six or eight weeks 
earlier in its flowering, and inhabits woody places, not fields 
and roadsides. 
12. N. HETERODOXA — Gilia heterodoxa, Greene, Bull. 
Cal. Acad. i. 10: G. viscidula, var. heterodoxa, Gray, Syn. 
Fl. Suppl. 409.—Plant a foot high, the numerous slender 
branches forming a rounded bushy growth; herbage clam- 
my-puberulent and aromatic; stem-leaves and floral bracts 
broad and nearly entire, except at base: calyx-teeth su 
equal, entire: corolla short, the limb open-campanulate, like 
that of a typical Polemonium, and the stamens are declined. 
Hills near Calistoga: collected again, this year, by Dr. 
Parry. 
stamens all ineurved in even their full development, 2 within 
the corolla, 3 exserted and declined. 
14. N. FILICAULIS — Gilia filicaulis, Torr. in Gray, Proc. 
Am. Acad. viii. 270; Syn. FL ii. part 1. 142.—Like N. hetero- 
doxa in size, habit, ete., only much more slender and searcely 
