136 . PITTONIA. 
segments at base, not at all pungent; the few which closely 
subtend the heads, more divided and somewhat pungent : 
ealyx and braets whitish with a viscid wool: calyx-tube 
entirely hyaline, longer than the longest of the teeth, the 
latter erect, entire, subulate: corolla nearly a half inch long, 
almost salverform, the purplish or blue limb a fourth of an 
inch broad, or more, the narrow throat yellow: stamens 
included, style far exserted and declined : capsule 3-celled, 
many-seeded. 
Near Visalia, Tulare County, 1886, by Dr. T. J. Patterson ; 
also in the same year, at Foster’s Station, Amador County, 
by Mrs. Curran. A very well marked and handsome new 
species. The slender and wiry naked branches, bearing 
clusters of flowers in the axils and at the ends give the plant 
. a peculiar aspect ; although something like it is seen in larger 
states of N. divaricata. 
l7. N. ptvartoata — Gilia divaricata, Torr. in Gray, ll. 
cc.— Closely allied to the preceding, but of different aspect, 
being small and diffuse, and the clusters erowded on the short 
branches: corolla minute, calyx-segments longer than the 
Oregon, ete. Mr. Sonne sends us from Truckee a manifest 
hybrid between this and N . minima, both of which species 
are plentiful in his vicinity. 
calyx sparsely hirsute, 
te, entire, very unequal, the shortest 
fully equalling the tube, the longest surpassed by the 
purplish corolla : capsule 3-celled, many-seeded. 
Hanson’s Ranch 
; in the northern part of Lower California, 
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