ogg BOTANY. 



and East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada ; 6-9,000 feet altitude ; May-August 

 In rather dense tufts, 6-10' high. (909.) 



Var. SQUAEEOSA, Gray. Taller, 1-2° high, with stouter squarrose spread- 

 ing or recurved leaves on virgate erect branches. — From the Columbia to 

 Nevada and Utah. On foot-hills from the Pah-Ute to the Shoshone Moun- 

 tains, Nevada, and on Carrington Island ; 4,200-5,000 feet altitude ; June, 



July. (910.) 



GiLiA iNTEETEXTA, Steud. Gray, I. c, p. 269. Annual; stem low, 

 (1-10',) much branched, pubescent with white hairs ; leaves glabrous except 

 at base, alternate, pinnately divided, the acerose-spinescent segments widely 

 divaricate, sparingly again divided or often simple ; flowers capitate-crowded 

 and often densely bracted, the base of the leafy bracts and the calyx-tube very 

 villous with long white spreading hairs ; corolla white, 4" long, the slender 

 funnelform tube rather shorter than the rigid and spinulose often divided 

 calyx-lobes, the corolla-lobes oval or oblong ; stamens inserted in or below 

 the throat, exsert and at length equaling the lobes ; anthers short ; ovules 

 and seeds 3-4 in each cell. — From Columbia River to Northern California 

 and eastward in the Rocky Mountains. East Hu'mboldt Mountains, Nevada ; 

 7,000 feet altitude ; August. A single specimen. (911-) 



GriLiA MINIMA, Grray; I. c, p. 269. Resembling the last, but stems very 

 low, (i-V high,) simple or branched, white-pubescent ; leaves less divided ; 

 bracts densely crowded, almost hiding the small white flowers, nearly glabrous, 

 the calyx slighty white-hairy only in the sinuses; calyx-teeth unequal, 

 entire, or two of them often somewhat divided ; corolla li" long, but little 

 exceeding the calyx-tube ; stamens shorter than the corolla-lobes ; cells 1-3- 

 ovuled, 1-seeded.— Near Fort Walla-Walla, (Nuttall;) Colorado, (Vasey.) 

 Found in Parley's Park in the Wahsatch ; 6,000 feet altitude; June, 

 July. (912.) 



GiLiA Beeweei, Grray ; /. c, p. 269. Resembling the preceding ; minutely 

 glandular-puberulent throughout without white hairs; stems 1-6' high, 

 branched; heads less crowded and less densely bracted; corolla yellow, 

 equaling the entire calyx-lobes, 3-4 long ; stamens equaling or exceeding 

 the lobes ; ovary-cells 1-2-ovuled ; capsule exceeding the calyx-tube, cells 

 1-seeded ; seeds h-1" long.— Ebbet's and Amidor Passes, California, (2015 

 and 2109 Brewer.) East and West Humboldt Mountains, and in the Wahsatch 

 with the last ; 6-9,000 feet altitude ; June, July. (913.) 



