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mucronate or acerose divisions, 6-9" long ; flowers crowded into a leafy clus- 

 ter ; corolla white with a yellow throat, fragrant, salverform with a very short 

 dilated funnelform throat, the tube puberulent, not exceeding the narrow 

 calyx, rather longer than the oblong-obovate (2-3") lobes ; filaments short, 

 inserted in the throat, slightly exserted; anthers ovate-oblong; cells 2-ovuled. — 

 From Colorado and Utah to the Sierras ; near Carson City, Nevada, (Ander- 

 son.) On rocky ridges in the East Humboldt Mountains, and "Wahsatch ; 

 8,500-9,000 feet altitude ; July, August. Plate XXVI. Fig. 8. A branch ; 

 natural size. Fig. 9. Calyx; and Fig. 10. Corolla; enlarged two diame- 

 ters. (907.) 



GiLiA Watsoni, Gray; /. c, p. 267. Roughish-ijuberulent and glandu- 

 lar or at length smoothish ; stems short (3-5') and tufted, slender and almost 

 herbaceous, from a woody perennial base ; leaves all opposite, not much fasci- 

 cled, widely spreading, palmately 3-5-parted, the slender entire acerose seg- 

 ments (6-8" long) often shorter than the internodes; calyx-lobes acerose, 

 barely half the length of the tube ; flowers solitary or few in a cluster at the 

 extremities of the branchlets ; corolla dull pinkish-white with purplish throat, 

 salverform, the tube and lobes each J' long; filaments short, inserted on or 

 below the somewhat funnelform throat ; anthers at the orifice, short ; cells 

 10-ovuled ; the close seed-coat not developing spiricles nor mucilage when 

 wetted. — On rocky ridges upon Stansbury Island, Salt Lake, and in the Wah- 

 satch and Uintas ; 5,500-8,000 feet altitude; June-August. Plate XXVI. 

 Fig. 1. A stem with a portion of the base ; natural size. Fig. 2. The calyx ; 

 enlarged two diameters. Fig. 3. Corolla; natural size. Fig. 4 Ovary. Fig. 

 5. Capsule; each enlarged two diameters. (908.) 



GiLiA PUNGENS, Bcnth. Gray, I. c, p. 268. Perennial, with decidedly 

 woody stems, the branches and mostly erectish or little-spreading leaves 

 viscid-pubescent or glabrate ; leaves alternate, somewhat rigid, thickly fas- 

 cicled in the axils, palmately 3-7-parted, the segments entire and with the 

 calyx-lobes acerose or subulate and pungent ; flowers sessile, solitary or few 

 in a terminal cluster ; corolla pink, white or yellow, salverform, the tube 

 at length more or less exceeding the calyx, the wedge-obovate lobes 2-4" 

 long; anthers in the somewhat funnelform throat oblong; cells 8-10-ovuled; 

 seed-coat close, without mucilage or spiricles. — Very variable. From the 

 Upper Platte to the Columbia and south to Arizona and California. Trinity 

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