156 MR. NUTTALL’S DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW 
G. *cREBRIFOLIA. Perennial and branching from the base ; leaves entire, linear, acute and fleshy, smooth, 
crowded so as to conceal the stem; flowers in capitate clusters; stamens exserted to the length of the 
corolla segments. 
Has. Big Sandy Creek of the Colorado of the West. ‘Flower:ng in July. 
(Nuttall.) 
G. *sprcaTa. Perennial ; leaves linear, fleshy ; flowers in clusters, spiked; stem and calyx lanuginous, 
segments of the calyx linear acute and viscid ; tube of the corolla exserted ; stamens at the summit of 
the tube. 
Has. On the hills near Scott’s Bluffs of the Platte. Flowers white, segments 
oblong. (Nuttall.) 
G. *rriripA. Biennial; radical leaves linear; cauline trifid towards the extremity, fleshy and smooth ; 
flowers clustered in spikes ; stem and calyx pubescent, segments of the calyx linear and very acute ; 
tube of the corolla exserted ; stamens at the summit of the tube. 
Ilias. With the above, which it greatly resembles, except in the leaves; cells of 
the capsule each with three or four ovules. About a span high. (Nuttall.) 
G. *pumita. Perennial? branching from the base; flowers in terminal clusters, subtended by long leaves, 
woolly at their base ; leaves fleshy, trifid at the extremities; segments narrow, linear, spinulose at 
points ; corolla small, the tube exserted ; stamens extending a little beyond the orifice of the tube. 
Three or four inches high, with a few slender branches, the leaves nearly all at 
the summits of the branches beneath the flowers, an inch to one and a half inches 
long. 
Has. Near tke first range of the Rocky Mountains of the Platte. Flowering in 
May. (Nuttall.) 
G. (Collomioides) *¥1L1FOLIA. ©. Erect and rigid; stems smooth below, near:y simple; leaves mostly trifid; 
the segments setaceous and rigid; capituli corymbose and whitely woolly; tube of the corolla about 
the length of the calyx ; segments of the border lanceolate ; stamens shorter than the corolla. 
Six to eight inches high, slender and rigid. Flowers small and blue, clusters or 
heads of flowers both axillar and terminal. 
Has. Near Santa Barbara, Upper California. 
LEPTOSIPHON. 
. *Brcotor. Branching from the base ; leaves three, five to seven-cleft, the lowest much shorter; lower 
segments oblong-linear, cuneate, the upper subulate, all more or less roughly ciliate ; segments of the 
calyx subulate-lanceolate ; tube of the corolla three times the length of the funnel-formed border, its 
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“segments oval and rounded ; stamens about half the length of the border. 
A very elegant species, bearing apparently very few flowers at a time. About 
four inches high, branching considerably from the base, somewhat scabrous, with a 
