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302 PITTONIA. 
This is known to me only by specimens from Falcon 
Valley, Washington, distributed by Mr. Suksdorf as Gilia 
gracilis, var. glabella. It should, if a mere variety, be re- 
ferred to M. humilis; but the extreme difference between 
that and this in the matter of pubescence alone, would 
establish it as a species, in default of intermediate forms. 
4. M. srRICTA. Stout, erect, a foot high, the stem simple 
and very leafy up to the merely cymose floriferous summit; 
only the upper part of the stem, the inflorescence and floral 
leaves pubescent with gland-tipped hairs, the main stem, at 
least below the middle, and its foliage, glabrous: lowest 
leaves spatulate, obtuse, the lower and middle cauline all 
opposite, linear-lanceolate, acute, suberect or at least ascend- 
ing, 1 to 14 inches long, surpassing the internodes: inflo- 
rescence very leafy: flowers all geminate, the longer pedicel 
only about twice or thrice the length of the other: corolla 
red, its tube not in the least exserted, the whole corolla even- 
a little surpassed by the calyx-segments; fruiting calyx $ 
inch long,its teeth rather longer than the tube: capsule 
large, subglobose. 
Northeastern California, and adjacent Oregon. 
5. M. Cauivornica. Slender, 6 to 10 inches high, loosely 
and somewhat dichotomously branched from the middle: 
leaves from obovate-spatulate in the lowest to oblong and 
oblong-lanceolate, } to $ inch long, all more or less pubes- 
cent with scattered short hairs, a few fine gland-tipped hairs 
-on the flowering branches and calyx: flowers mostly soli- 
tary, but when geminate the long pedicel exceeding the 
whole length of the subsessile flower: calyx-teeth rather 
shorter than the tube: corolla wholly red, the limb ampler 
than in other species, its lobes emarginate, the whole httle 
surpassing the calyx: capsule ovoid. 
Common in the Coast Range of middle and northern 
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