RYDBERG: STUDIES ON THE RocKy MOUNTAIN FLORA 471 
Dr. Brand evidently drew his description from Jones 5049, the 
only specimen he cited. He described the stamens as being in- 
serted in the middle of the corolla-tube, while Nuttall described 
them as inserted in the throat. I have not seen Nuttall’s type, but 
I have collected in the region of the type locality, Scott’s Bluffs, 
Nebraska. The only species growing there are G. spicata and G. 
iberidifolia. I believe that Dr. Gray interpreted G. trifida Nutt.’ 
correctly as a depauperate form of G. spicata. If this is correct, 
Brand’s G, trifida must receive a new name. 
Gilia frutescens Rydb. sp. nov. 
Fruticose, perennial; stems woody below, branched above, 3-5 
dm. high; herbaceous branches 2-3 dm., sparingly pubescent; 
leaves linear, glabrous or nearly so, simple, 2-5 cm. long, I-2 mm 
wide, callous-tipped; flowers capitate at the ends of the bratiches: 
calyx crisp-hairy; teeth lanceolate, cuspidate, shorter than the 
tube; corolla white, 5-6 mm. long, salvershaped; tube barely 
exserted; lobes about 2.5 mm. long, oval, acute; stamens inserted 
in the throat; filaments short; style glabrous, nearly as long as 
the corolla tube 
The type was labeled Gilia multiflora, to which it is not related. 
It belongs to the G. iberidifolia group, and has as entire leaves as 
G. spergulifolia and G. crebrifolia, but the habit is different. It 
differs from all its relatives in the tall shrubby habit. The other 
species are at most suffruticose and less than 3 dm. high. 
Utan: Springdale, May 14, 1894, M. E. Jones 5247 (type, i in 
herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.; duplicate in U. S. Nat. Herb. no. 326970). 
Dr. Brand has treated the G. aggregata group as carelessly as 
that of the G. congesta relatives. It is evident that he has had no 
specimens of G. candida Rydb. and still he makes it Gilia aggregata 
var. attenuata forma candida, giving Callisteris leucantha Greene 
as another synonym. If he had only read my description, he 
would not have committed this blunder, for I distinctly pointed 
out that the lobes of the corolla in G. candida are rounded or 
obtuse at the apex like those of G. longiflora. It is a plant with the 
habit and leaves of G. aggregata and the corolla of G. longiflora, 
Both Callisteris attenuata and C. leucantha have attenuate corolla- 
lobes and the former is a white-flowered form of Gilia pulchella 
Dougl.,* a species wholly omitted by Dr. Brand. Dr. Brand cited 
* Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. 2: 74. 1838. 
