264 BOTANY. 



or spreading, 3-12' high, minutely pubescent or scabrous ; leaves opposite 

 and fascicled, palmately 5-7-parted, the segments linear-filiform, villous- or 

 subaculeate-ciliate ; flowers crowded with the bracts into capitate clusters ; 

 corolla salverform, the filiform tube 1' or less long, thrice the length of the 

 oval or ovate entire lobes and much exserted beyond the hirsute- or villous- 

 ciUate bracts and subtending leaves, the limb 8-10" in diameter, lilac, pink 

 or nearly white, with a yellow or dark very short and abruptly dilated throat ; 

 filaments slender, inserted in the throat, more or less exserted but shorter 

 than the corolla-lobes ; anthers short ; cells 6-10-ovuled.— California. Var. 

 DETONSA, Gray. . Nearly glabrous, the bracts and leaves merely hispidulous- 

 ciliate. A somewhat intermediate form was collected near Carson City by 

 Dr. Anderson. 



GiLiA MiCEANTHA, Stcud. Gray, • I. c, p. 266. Resembling the last, 

 slender, 3-7' high ; corolla-tube extremely slender, f-li' long, 4-6 times ex- 

 ceeding its (2-3") lobes ; bracts with short and soft pubescence or sometimes 

 hirsute-ciliate ; corolla yellow, cream-color or purplish-white. — California and 

 Nevada. 



GriLiA ciLTATA, Benth. Gray, I. c, p. 266. Resembling the preceding, 

 rigid, rough, 3-12' high, the taller stems virgate; corolla-tube 6-7" long, 

 scarcely exceeding the very hirsute or hispid-ciliate bracts and leaves ; the 

 lobes li" long ; calyx-lobes acerose. — Rose-color fading to white ; stems gray- 

 ish with short pubescence ; leaves ,and bracts fringed with both rigid and soft 

 spreading hairs. California and Nevada. 



GiLiA NUDiCAULis, Gray ; /. c, p. 266. Annual, very glabrous, 1-4' high, 

 at length branching from the base ; stem leafless from the cotyledons to the 

 capitate inflorescence, which is subtended by an involucre of several ovate- 

 lanceolate or lanceolate sessile entire foliaceous bracts ; corolla white, pink or 

 yellow, salverform, the tube 3-4" long and thrice the length of the calyx, the 

 cuneate lobes 2-3" long, somewhat undulate-toothed or decidedly 1-3-dentate 

 at the broad apex ; anthers sessile in the somewhat dilated throat, short, in- 

 cluded ; ovules numerous. — Interior of Oregon, Nevada, (Anderson, Stretch,) 

 and South Park, Colorado, (Hall.) Found under sage-brush near Empire 

 City, Nevada ; April. (906.) 



GiLiA NtlTTALLii, Gray; I. c, p. 267. Puberulent; stems numerous from 

 a perennial woody base, slender, simple or loosely branched ; leaves opposite, 

 mostly shorter than the internodes, palmately parted into 3-7 narrow-linear 



