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equalling the tube; corolla white, little exceeding the calyx lobes, 

 oval, short; "stamens inserted above the middle of the tube and 

 slightly exserted" (Gray); capsule oval, shorter than the calyx, 

 "seeds in each cell four to five" (Gray), two in each cell in 

 specimens from Dry Lake near Rabbit Springs, Mojave Desert, 

 collected by S. B. and W. F. Parish. 

 Argus Mts., Inyo Co., C. A. Purpus. 



3. Gilia gilioides Greene. Collomia gilioides Benth. Gilia 



glutinosa Gray. Gilia divaricata Nutt. 



Annual, four inches to two feet high, pubescent, with long 

 white hairs at right angles to the stem, glutinous, usually 

 branching; leaves variable, from a few lines to three inches in 

 length, entire to three-parted, or pinnatifid, with several pairs of 

 pinnae, divisions broad-lanceolate, to narrowly linear; inflores- 

 cence single or two- to three-flowered, subsessile and bracted, or 

 on quite long pedicels; calyx about three lines long, slender, 

 lobes acerose, equalling the tube, hairy; corolla tubular, twice or 

 more than twice the calyx, white to purple, lobes very short, not 

 spreading; stamens irregularly inserted in the tube, filaments 

 sometimes equalling the tube, anthers round, blue; stigma blue, 

 included; capsule globular, splitting the calyx, one seed in each 

 cell. 



Los Angeles Co., A. Davidson. Modoc Co., M. S. Baker. 

 At intervening stations in the Sierra Nevada and Coast Range 

 Mts. (Plate 1.) 



4. Gilia Traskiae Eastwood, MSS. 



Annual, a span to a foot high, branching; stems arid inflores- 

 cence very glandular-viscid, foliage less so; leaves a few lines to 

 three inches in length, variously toothed, lobed or divided, 

 usually pinnatifid, the pinnae with few teeth or lobes, lobes 

 obtusish and mucronate-tipped; flowers solitary or in small 

 clusters, sessile or on pedicels shorter than, or twice the 

 length of the corolla; calyx one to two lines long, open-funnel- 

 form to campanulate, broadish, lobes green, longer than the tube 

 which is almost entirely herbaceous; corolla white, salverform to 

 funnelform, narrow tube not longer than the calyx, limb equal- 



