MACLOSKIE I POLEMONIACE/E. 



669 



FIG. 86. 



oblong, opposite. Calyx tubular; its segments linear, as long as the 

 corolla-tube. Flowers terminal, at length lateral on excurrent branches. 

 (Calif.); S. Patagon., at mouth of Rio Sta. Cruz (Dusen); Punta Arenas. 



COLLOMIA GRACILIS MINUARTIOIDES. 



Hispid all over. Leaves rigid, often arcuate, narrow-linear; calyx- 

 segments hyaline-margined. Capsule ovate, shorter than the calyx. 



Magellan. 



( " Distributed by Lechler as Eutoca gracilis Gris. and by Philippi as 

 Myotoca eritrichoides Gris." Franchet.) 



2. C. LINEARIS Nutt. 



Viscid-pubescent ; branching. Leaves sessile, entire or incised, the 

 lower opposite. Flowers leafy-bracted. Calyx obconical; its lobes tri- 

 angular-lanceolate, acute. Corolla salverform, 12 

 mm. long, lilac-purple to white, slender; its limb 

 small. 



(W. of N. Amer.); S. Patagon., near Rio Coy, by 

 Peterson (Nov.) ; on Cordilleras, by Hatcher (flow- 

 ering Feb. 25). 



(Gray referred it to Gilia in Proc. Am. Ac., 1882; 

 but returns to Nuttall's name in his Gamopetalce, 

 1886.} 



3- C. PATAGONICA Speg. 



Minute annual, with filiform root, and short 

 capitately folio-floriferous stems, all hispid-gland- 

 ular. Leaves narrow-linear, entire. Flowers very Coiiomia patagonica. 



,, , ., ~ , . . Calyx ; (on left) longitudinal 



small, subsessile. Calyx subcampanulate, its seg- section of corolla . (onright) 

 ments linear, 5 times as long as its tube. Corolla recurved margin of cauiine 

 scarcely greater, pubescent, white, tubular, 5- leaf - a11 ma g ni ed. (After 

 toothed. (Fig. 86.) 



S. Patagon., by Rio Sta. Cruz. (Dusen refers to this species specimens 

 with only the root-leaves hispid-glandular, but otherwise as described by 

 Spegazzini). Rio Gallegos (Barnum Brown. Its lowest pair of leaves. 

 (Cotyledons?), are broadly ovate and subtruncate, same length as the 

 others, 7 mm., including petiole 1.5 mm. G. M. 



