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scattered, on capillary pedicels 5-15" long ; corolla white, 2-3 times exceed- 

 ing the calyx, rotate when fully expanded, 5-parted nearly to the very short 

 tube, the lobes obovate, entire, 4-6" long ; filaments inserted at the top of 

 the tube, pubescent at base ; anthers oval ; ovules 6-8 in each cell. — Califor- 

 nia. Var. PHAENACEOiDES, Gray. Smaller, with the corolla-lobes 2-3i" long, 

 sometimes slightly flesh-colored.— -To Eraser's Eiver and east to the Rocky 

 Mountains. Pah-Ute Mountains, Nevada, and in the Wahsatch and Uintas ; 

 5-7,000 feet altitude ; June, July. (903.) 



GriLiA PUSILLA, Benth. Grqy, I. c, p. 263. Annual ; stems very slen- 

 der, diffuse, 2-6' high, minutely hispid-scabrous or nearly glabrous ; leaves 

 opposite or the uppermost alternate, palmately 3-7-parted, the segments fili- 

 form-subulate, 3-5" long ; flowers scattered, on capillary pedicels 5-10" long ; 

 corolla purplish with a yellow throat, or nearly white, short and open funnel- 

 form, the broadly obovate entire lobes equaling or exceeding the subcampan- 

 ulate throat and very short tube ; filaments inserted below the sinuses, nearly 

 glabrous at base ; anthers oval ; ovules 3-5 in each cell. Var. Californica, 

 Grray. Corolla-lobes larger, 2-3" long, twice longer than the calyx, the 

 throat sometimes brownish. — Foot-hills of the Sierras. Specimens approach- 

 ing the typical Chilian form were collected in the Toyabe Mountains, Nevada, 

 and in the Wahsatch ; 6,000 feet altitude; June, July. (904.) 



GiLiA BiGELovii, Gray; /. c, p. 265. Annual, erect and usually slender, 

 4-12' high, glabrous ; leaves opposite, palmately 3-5-divided or sometimes 

 all entire, filiform or nearly so ; flowers inconspicuous, terminal or in the 

 forks, subsessile ; calyx cylindric, white-scarious excepting the ribs, which are 

 prolonged into acerose-linear curved teeth ; corolla whitish, salverform, 

 hardly exceeding the calyx, the broadly cuneate-obovate lobes not over 2" 

 long and but half or a third as long as the tube, minutely crenulate or erose, 

 strongly convolute in asstivation ; stamens included in the tube, the filaments 

 slender, inserted below or above its middle ; anthers oval ; cells 20-40 

 ovuled ; capsule cylindric or oblong ; seeds oval or oblong, the close coat co- 

 piously mucilaginous. — Western Texas to Arizona and Nevada. Foot-hills 

 of the Truckee and Trinity Mountains, Western Nevada ; 5,000 feet altitude : 

 May. Plate. XXV. Fig. 3. A plant ; natural size. Fig. 4. A flower, with 

 the calyx laid open. Fig. 5. The corolla, laid open. Fig. 6. The ovary. 

 Fig. 7. The mature capsule ; all twice enlarged. (905.) 



GiLiA ANDROSACEA, St&ud. Gray^ I. c, p. 265. Annual ; stems erect 



