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longer: bracts, pedicels, and calyx glandular-pubescent: corolla 

 tube one-half longer to nearly twice as long as the calyx lobes. 



The strongest character of the variety is its glandular inflorescence and its 

 longer corolla tube. Represented by Nelson and Macbride's no. 1192 from 

 Ketchum, July 19, 191 1, found among the sagebrush on the river bottom lands. 



Gilia Burleyana, n. sp.- — Perennial from a completely lignified, 

 rather large root, with a more or less branched caudex, producing 

 few-many slender leafy suberect stems, 15-30 cm. high: pubescence 

 scanty, soft and crisped, more abundant on stems and inflorescence 

 than on the leaves: leaves alternate, small, numerous, entire, linear, 

 1 -nerved, slightly thickened on the margins, mucronate- tipped, 



cm 



more 



terminal congested corymb: flowers numerous, small and very 

 crowded: calyx tube delicately scarious, twice as long as the green- 

 ish hirsute subulate mucronate lobes: corolla white, tubular, with 



or less reflexed lobes half as loner as the tube : tube less than 



more 



5 mm. long, slightly exceeding the calyx, obscurely pubescent 

 within: anthers exserted; filaments inserted in the sinuses, shorter 

 than the corolla lobes: style about equalling the stamens: ovules 

 solitary in the cells, usually only one maturing and producing an 

 inequilaterally distended capsule: seed large, oblong, slightly 



mbryo, developing muci 



when wetted. 



This rather extraordinarily strong species falls into the section Elapho- 



rand 



Until now 



this section contained no perennials. 



Mr 



agent of the Oregon Short Line Railroad Company, whose cordial cooperation 

 and intelligent interest in scientific work is so greatly appreciated. The 



type of the species is Nelson and Macbride's no. 11 26, from loose white 

 clay banks, a few miles from King Hill, Idaho, July 16, 191 1. 



Cryptanthe scoparia, n. sp. — About 15 cm. high, fastigiately 

 branched from the base and upward, the erect branchlets broom- 

 like in their compactness: pubescence of a few stiff hispid spreading 

 hairs and a rather close layer of short white appressed ones : leaves 

 linear, the hispid hairs from pustulate bases: racemes numerous, 

 3-6 cm. long at maturity: fruiting calyces numerous and rather 

 crowded on the rachis: sepals very narrow, but thick, bluntly 



