154 MR. NUTTALL’S DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW 
: POLEMONIUM. : 
P. *viscosum. Dwarf; every part covered with a short, viscid pubescence ; leaves nearly as long as the 
short flower stems, segments rounded, ovate or subcordate, very small and short; flowers in small 
terminal clusters ; corolla much longer than the elongated lanceolate segments of the calyx; ovaries . 
two or three in each cell. 
Stems thickish and rigid, somewhat cespitose. About four or five inches high, 
the leaves on longish petioles. The leaves and calyx covered with a short viscid 
bitter pubescence, leaflets scarcely more than a line long, about the same breadth. 
Calyx large, with lanceolate rather acute segments. 
Has. On rocky ledges towards the sources of the Platte. Flowering in June. 
(Nuttall.) ; 
GILIA. 
G. *muttirtora. Biennial, erect and much branched from the base; stems low and pubesceht; leaves 
pinnatifid, mostly trifid, segments narrow linear and mucronulate, above simple ; flowers disposed in 
sessile or pedicellate axillary clusters; tube of the corolla about twice the length of the curved calyx; 
the segments of the corolla oblong and mucronulate ; stamens somewhat exserted. 
A biennial, about a foot high, or rather less. The leaves apparently thick and 
slightly pubescent, the lower ones only trifid, the upper or greater number simple, 
the primary leaves probably pinnatifid. Flowers violet blue, inclining to rose red, 
the tube of the corolla about twice the length of the calyx, enlarging towards the 
orifice, segments of the border oblong, spreading, minutely mucronulate. Stamens 
exserted beyond the orifice of the tube, unequal in length, anthers round. Style long 
and slender, with a small trifid stigma. Flowers disposed in clusters of from five to 
ten up the greater part of the simple branches, some of the clusters sessile. Calyx 
obconic-campanulate, membranaceous between the teeth, which are long, subulate, 
and pungent. Capsule oval, not exserted, cells four to five-seeded. Seeds angular, 
pale brown. Allied apparently to G. glomeriflora, but that appears to be a low shrub 
with orange coloured flowers. 
Has. Sandy hills along the borders of the Rio del Norte, New Mexico. 
Flowering in August. 
_ G, LonerrLora. (Cantua longiflora, Torrey.) Found abundant in sandy places 
along the banks of the Rio del Norte, growing beneath the shade of pine trees, 
Flowering in August and September. A very remarkable and showy plant with 
white flowers. Very few of the leaves are properly pinnatifid, being mostly trifid, a 
few with two pair of segments. Tube of the corolla often as much as two inches 
long. Leaves mostly trifid. 
