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ing so when distorted by pressure; teeth a little shorter than the 

 tube, subulate, awn-tipped: corollas salmon-colored, glabrous, 

 nearly 3 cm. long, the tube 2 to 2.5 cm. long, or nearly twice 

 the length of the calyx, i mm. wide at base, gradually enlarged 

 to 2 mm. at top; the spreading lobes oblong-spatulate, i cm. or 

 less long, 3 or 4 mm. wide at the rounded and obtuse apex; 

 stamens equaling the tube: style 2 or 3 mm. shorter than the 

 stamens, the three slender .stigmas 2 mm. long: ovules not seen. 

 The type is no. 8320, collected May 23, 1906, in the Sierra 

 foothills west of Bishop, Inyo county, California, in coarse gran- 

 ite sand, commonly growing among and supported by shrubs, 

 the lower part of the stem woody but weak and brittle. One or 

 two plants were found growing out in the open, and these were 

 low and diffuse. Its nearest relative is perhaps P. stansburyi^ 

 the type of which came from "gravelly hills near the Organ 

 Mountains, New Mexico. 



LepTodactylon patens Heller, Muhlenbergia, 1: 146. 1906. 



Gilia pungejts vSiV. sqiiarrosa Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 8: 

 267. 1870; not Gilia squarrosa H. & A. 



No. 8292, coftected May"2i;iri the fi¥st canyon in the^SK 

 erra foothills south of Bishop, Inyo county, in coarse granite 

 sand -about rock s^ and .plentiful there. The flowers are white, 

 fadi tig pinkish or purplish, especially along the outre edge of 

 the petals. The corollas are^.2 cm. long, the slender tube i cm. 

 long, the open flower about 15 mm. across, the petals cuneate- 

 obovate, somewhat uneq,ual in \vidth, 5 or 6 mm. wide across 

 the . rounded or truncate slightly eroded apex. Referred here 

 with considerable doubt. The type was collected somewhere in 

 the "arid districts of Nevada and Utah." 



CoLLOMiA HETEROPHYI.LA Hook. 



No. 8389, collected June 15, in an open place in rich soil 

 near the summit of Mt. Tamalpais, Marin county. A polymor- 

 phous species. 



