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lent or sparsely pubescent, diffuse and subdecumbent, 4-8' long ; leaves very 

 few, alternate, pinnatifid or incised, with short oblong abruptly spinulose- 

 mucronate lobes, those subtending the cymose cluster longer than the flowers ; 

 corolla pinkish-white, lJ-2" long, salverform, the tube hardly exceeding the 

 mucronate-awned calyx-lobes ; anthers in the throat, on very short filaments ; 

 cells 2-ovuled. — New Mexico to Utah and Western Nevada. Foot-hills of 

 the Virginia, Trinity, and West Humboldt Mountains, Nevada, and on the sandy 

 shore of Stansbury Island ; 4,300-5,000 feet altitude ; May, June. (919.) 



GiLiA AGGEEGATA, Spreng. Gray, I. c, p. 275. Biennial, more or less 

 pubescent ; stems 1-4° high, less leafy above and often loosely branching ; 

 leaves alternate, simply pinnately-parted, with narrow-linear mostly bluntish 

 mucronulate segments ; panicle mostly with loose and open branches ; bracts 

 inconspicuous ; calyx commonly glandular, its lobes subulate (or subdeltoid 

 in Var. Bridgesii ;) corolla scarlet, varying to light-pink, tubular-fannelform, 

 6-20" long, with ovate or lanceolate acute widely spreading or soon recurved 

 lobes ; stamens inserted in the throat or below the sinuses, exserted or in- 

 cluded, not exceeding the corolla; anthers oval or short-oblong; ovules 

 numerous. — ^Very variable, especially in the calyx. From the Upper Platte 

 and Missouri Rivers to New Mexico and Arizona, and west to the Columbia 

 and California. Found in the mountains and higher valleys from the Sierras 

 to the Wahsatch ; 6-8,000 feet altitude ; May-September. (920.) A form 

 with the corolla white, finely dotted with scarlet, is not rare. (921.) 



GiLiA S0BNUDA, Torr. Gray, I. c, p. 276. Biennial, glandular-puberu- 

 lent ; stems 6-12' high, nearly naked above and loosely panicled ; leaves 1' 

 long, crowded at the subwoody base, spatulate or oblong, tapering into a 

 margined petiole, mostly with a few coarse teeth or short lobes, the upper 

 decreasing to linear remote bracts ; flowers rather crowded in the few clus- 

 ters, inconspicuously bracted ; calyx-lobes subulate, shorter than the tube ; 

 corolla orange or scarlet, narrowly tubular-funnelform, the tube {¥ long) 

 thrice exceeding the ovate obtuse lobes ; anthers included in the throat, on 

 very short filaments ; ovules numerous. — ^Arizona or New Mexico, and also 

 collected by Stretch in Western Nevada. 



GriLiA STENOTHYRSA, Gray; /. c, p. 21 Q. Biennial, glandular-puberulent, 

 a span or more high ; stem stout, simple, very leafy up to the narrow virgate 

 thyrsus ; leaves alternate, simply pinnately-cleft with short oblong lobes, the 

 floral ones and bracts small and entire ; calyx-lobes triangular ; corolla white, 



