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throat, the latter about equalling the obovate acute segments, 
the whole dark violet, without markings: anthers also deep 
violet, on short filaments and wholly included within the 
limb of the corolla. 
he type specimens in the Benthamian herbarium at 
Kew show that the original G. multicaulis and achillewfolia 
of that author are not distinct. The latter name is more 
appropriate, as applying to the larger and more showy form 
figured so beautifully in the Botanical egister ; and 
especially since this form is the common one in nature; 
the smaller, many-stemmed state being less frequent. The 
transference of the name G. achillewfolia to a very 
different plant of the sea-board sand-hills, accomplished by 
Asa Gray, but attributed to Bentham, was without any 
warrant; for Bentham never knew that plant; at least, there 
is none of it in his herbarium; and apparently it has never 
been in cultivation in Europe. 
G. abrotanifolia, Nutt. mss. in herb. Brit. Mus. Nearly 
glabrous, 1 to 2 feet high, simple, or with few ascending 
branches, these and the upper part of the main stem naked 
and pedunculiform, bearing a terminal dense cymose cluster 
of large blue flowers: leaves ample, even the cauline tripin- 
nately dissected, the ultimate segments linear and spatulate- 
linear, spreading or curving backwards, very acute: calyx 
nearly or quite glabrous, mainly hyaline, only a broad mid- 
vein truly herbaceous, the segments acute, not connivent: 
corolla large, apparently blue without markings; throat 
ample-funnelform, lobes spreading, obovate, obtuse: stamens 
scarcely exserted. 
In the Santa Inez Mountains, back of Santa Barbara, 
Calif., 21 May, 1891, G. W. Dunn. Collected in the same 
region many years earlier, by Nuttall, whose specimens, 
labelled as above indicated, are in the British Museum. 
Almost the same thing, but with rather smaller corollas, the 
stamens not at all exserted, is distributed by Mr. Parish, 
from the San Bernardino region, as “ G. achillecefolia.” 
