262 BOTANY. 



CoLLOMiA TENELLA, Gray ; I. c, p. 259. Annual, slender, 3 4' high, 

 viscous-puberulent ; leaves linear with a long tapering base, entire, obtusish, 

 the lowest opposite ; flowers solitary in all the forks almost from the base, 

 remote, nearly sessile ; calyx broadly obconic, barely 2" long, the lobes trian- 

 gular, acute, shorter than the broadly turbinate tube; corolla purplish, at 

 length 4" long, narrow, almost salverform ; ovules solitary ; seeds with numer- 

 ous spiricles. — In the East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada, and in the Wah- 

 satch ; 7,000 feet altitude ; June, July. (900.) 



CoLLOMiA GEACiLis, Dougl. Qray, I. c, p. 259. Annual, viscid-pubes- 

 cent, at length corymbosely much branched and spreading, 2-6' high ; leaves 

 sessile, lanceolate or linear or the lowest oval or obovate, entire, the lower 

 often opposite ; flowers rather loosely cymose or scattered ; calyx rounded at 

 base, nearly 5-parted, with subulate-linear segments ; corolla 5" long, purple 

 or violet, nearly salverform, the narrow tube yellowish and seldom exceed- 

 ing the calyx ; ovules solitary ; seeds without spiricles. — ^Very variable. 

 From Colorado, Arizona., and Southern California to Washington Territory 

 Frequent on the mountains and foot-hills through Nevada and Utah ; 4,500- 

 6,000 feet altitude ; April-June. (901.) 



CoLLOMiA LEPTALEA, Grray ; /. c.,^. 261. Annual, glabrous or minutely 

 glandular ; stem slender, 3-10' high, branching into an effuse panicle ; pedi- 

 cels scattered and 1-flowered, almost capillary, (3-12" long,) naked ; leaves 

 all entire, scattered, narrow-linear ; corolla white or pale purple, about i' long, 

 its slender tube usually twice the length of the calyx, expanding above into 

 an ample funnelform throat longer than the ovate lobes ; filaments verv une- 

 qually inserted in the throat; anthers very short; cells about 6-ovuled. — 

 Slopes of the California Sierras ; also found in the Truckee Valley, Nevada, 

 near Glendale, by W. W. Bailey. Plate. XXV. Fig. 1. A plant, of the 

 natural size. Fig. 2. A flower ; enlarged three diameters. (902.) 



GiLiA^ LiNiFLOEA, Benth. Gray, I. c, p. 263. Annual, erect or at 

 length diffuse, 6-18' high, minutely hispidulous-hirsute or usually nearly 

 glabrous, loosely panicled above ; leaves opposite, frequently alternate above, 

 palmately 3-7-parted, the segments i-1' long, nearly filiform, entire ; flowers 



' GILIA, Euiz & Pay. Corolla, from salverform or funnelform to campanulate or rotate. Stamens 

 equally inserted in or below the throat or sinuses of the corolla and mostly equal ; filaments not declined, 

 naked (rarely pubescent) at the base. Ovules sometimes solitary, coftmouly few or many in each cell. 

 Seed-coat (with few exceptions) developing mucilage or spiricles when wetted.— Herbs, or in a few cases 

 suffrutioose ; leaves, &c., various. 



