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pelow the sinuses of the corolla, not longer than its lobes; filaments slender; 
anthers short, oblong or oval: ovules numerous in the cells: seeds develop- 
ing mucilage and spiral threads when wetted. On dry ridges in moun- 
tainous districts, California to Brit. Columbia and Nebraska. 
* * * Flowers scattered, crowded or rarely capitate-glomerate, in- 
conspicuously bracted or ebractate. 
ies Ovules and seeds few or numerous in the cells: stamens insert- 
ed in or just below the sinuses: annuals. 
++ Corolla more or less funnelform; having a distinct tube. 
= Leaves once or twice pinnately parted or cleft: seeds developing 
mucilage and spiral threads when wetted. 
G._capitata Dougl. Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 2698. Nearly glabrous: stem Cyrw a2Q- 
rather slender. usually 1-3 feet high, paniculately branched: leaves 2-3- 
- pinnately divided into slender or even filiform lobes: flowers numerous, in b sae D. (ell 
dense capitate clusters terminating long naked peduncles: calyx glabrous 
or nearly so, the lanceolate acuminate lobes not longer than the campanu- 
late tube: corolla blue to ola in lines long; its tube about as long as 
the narrowly oblong or lanceolaté-linear lobes: stamens inserted in the 
very sinuses of the corolla and equalling its lobes: anthers elliptical. Com- 
mon in open places and fields, California to Brit. Columbia. 
Ge achillefolia Benth. Bot. Reg. 1622. Somewhat pubescent: stem. Oyrall- 
rather stout, I- igh, loosely branched above: leaves once or twice Q 
pinnately parted into linear lobes: flowers numerous, in dense capitate Ky.) © ' 
clusters terminating long peduncles: calyx pubescent; its ovate almost 
spinose-tipped lobes longer than the tube: lobes of the blue corolla obovate 
or broadly oblong; its throat abruptly and amply dilated: stamens insert- 2 
ed in the sinuses of the corolla and about equalling its lobes. Western 
California and Oregon to Brit. Columbia. 
G. inconspicua Doug]. Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 2883. Viscid, and usually 
with slight woolly pubescence when young: stem stoutish, 4-12 inches high, 
branching from the base: leaves mostly pinnatifid or pinnately parted, or 
the lowest bipinnatifid with short cuspidate lobes, the upper becoming 
small, subulate aud entire: flowers somewhat crowded and subsessile, or 
at length loosely panicled and some of them slender-pediceled: calyx 2 
lines long, the short subulate teeth not half as long as the tube: corolla 
narrowly funnelform, with proper tube shorter or slightly longer than the 
calyx: seeds severalineach cell. Dry hillsidesaud sandy plains, California 
and eastern Oregon to Brit. Columbia and the Rocky Mountains. 
Var. sinuata Gray Proc. Am. Acad. viii, 278. Corolla becoming thrice 
the length of the calyx, with the tube more exserted, with the throat and 
lobes more ample. Dry plains, eastern Oregon to California and N. Mex. 
= = Seeds destitute of mucilage and spiral threads when wetted. 
G. gracilis Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 2924. Stem stout, simple, or at length 
corymbosely much branched and spreading. 2-10 inches high: leaves linear 
or the lower ones obovate to lanceolate, entire, sessile, the lower ones 
mostly opposite, 4-10 lines long: calyx rounded at base, deeply cleft, with 
strongly carinate subulate lobes: corolla about 5 lines long, purple or vio- 
let, the slender tube yellowish, and seldom longer than the calyx: seeds 
flat and somewhat winged. Common in open places, Brit. Columbia to 
California and Nebraska. 
G. leptomeria Gray 1. c. Somewhat gearidulat:xitciths stem 6-12 
inches high: leaves mainly radical, oblong or broadly lanceolate, incisely 
toothed or sinuate-pinnatifid the obtuse teeth or lobes minutely cuspidate; 
the cauline small and reduced upward to the subulate bracts of the open 
