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very slender style equalling but not exceeding the stamens, the 

 stigmatic end not appreciably enlarged: capsule broadly ovoid- 

 trigonous, almost globose, 3 mm. high and as broad: seeds yel- 

 lowish, oblong, apparently narrowly winged. The flower char- 

 aoters and measurements from fresh flowers. 



The type is no. 7868, collected May 29, 1905, at the river 

 bridge near Redding, Shasta county California, in sand. It is 

 of the capitata group, but differs from that species in its glab- 

 rous stems, in its pubescent and glandular calyx with lanceolate 

 instead of ovate segments,. in its blunt instead of acute corolla 

 lobes, in its style equalling instead of shorter than the stamens, 

 in its entire instead of 3-lobed style, and rounded instead of oval 

 capsule. Gilia capitata of the Columbia riser region has appar- 

 ently not yet been found in California, what heretofore has pass- 

 ed as such being an aggregate of the species here described, to- 

 gether with G. pallida and G. staminea. 



(xilia teimisec'ta 



Annual, branched from near the base, the branches ascend- 

 ing, 3 or 4 dm. long, glabrous or very faintly puberulent: leaves 

 mostly basal, 6 or 7 cm. long, of oblong outline, cut into very 

 narrow almost filiform divisions, slightly chaffy on the petioles; 

 those of the stem few and scattered, soon reduced to a few short 

 segments: peduncles slender, 10 cm. long or less: flowers capi- 

 tate: calyx barely 3 mm. long, the ovate apiculate lobes i mm., 

 membranous except for the broad green midvein, pubescent and 

 ciliate with wavy chaffy hairs, as well as somewhat glandular: 

 corollas violet blue about 6 mm. long, the lobes oblong, obtuse, 

 2 mm. long, over i mm. wide: stamens mostly colored like the 

 petals and equalling them, the roundish, granular anthers about 

 I mm. across: style equalling the stamens, split into three re- 

 curved lobes over 1 mm. lonof. 



The type is no. 7898, collected May 30, 1905, on the banks 

 of a 'stream about three miles northeast of Redding, Shasta 

 county, California. It approaches G. capitata in its ovate calyx 



