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alternate, mostly linear and entire, reduced on the branches to minute bracts; 

 flowers numerous, very loosely panicled, the slender pedicels sometimes 

 shorter than the calyx ; corolla nearly white, slender ^ -elform, approaching 

 salverform, U" to at length 3" long, the tube f- ^coming twice the 



length of the calyx and of the ovate ..^luate-toothed lobes ; 



stamens inserted in the sinuses, sh'~ .uan the lobes ; ovules numerous ; 

 seeds small, i" or less in length '' close coat without mucilage or spiricles. — 

 Resembling depauperate forms of G. inconspicua, but well marked by the 

 narrower corolla and by the seeds. Truckee Pass of the Virginia Mountains, 

 near Humboldt Lake, and in UnionviUe Valley, Nevada, and on Stansbury 

 Island in Salt Lake ; May, June. Plate XXVI. Fig. 6. A plant ; natural 

 size. Fig. 8. A young flower. Figs. 7 and 9. Older flowers, with elongated 

 corollas. Fig. 11. Mature opened capsule ; all enlarged four diameters. (927.) 



GiLiA MICEOMERIA, Gray ; /. c, p. 279. Annual, nearly glabrous, lax 

 and slender, 2-4' high, diffusely much branched; radical and lower cauline 

 leaves pinnatifid with oblong obtuse divaricate lobes, on the branches linear 

 and entire ; flowers minute, scattered on long and capillary spreading or at 

 length recurved pedicels ; corolla nearly white, oblong-campanulate, 1" long, 

 little exceeding the calyx, the lobes short ; stamens inserted nearly in the 

 sinuses, shorter .than the corolla ; capsule globose, longer than the style, 

 cells about 6-ovuled ; seeds as in the last. — Truckee Valley, and near Hum- 

 boldt Lake, and in the East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada; 4-6,000 feet 

 altitude ; May-July. Plate . XXVI. Fig. 12. A plant ; natural size. 

 Fig. 13. A flower; enlarged eight diameters. Fig. 14. The corolla, laid 

 open. Fig. 15. Mature capsule ; enlarged four diameters. (928.) 



GiLiA CAMPANULATA, Gray; /. c, p. 279. Annual, small, 1-2' high, 

 spreading, somewhat viscid-pubescent; lower leaves lanceolate, sparingly 

 pinnatifid-toothed, on the branches linear-lanceolate, sometimes entire; flowers 

 loosely panicled on slender pedicels often shorter than the flower; corolla 

 nearly white, 3-4" long, campanulate, moderately 5-lobed, twice longer than 

 the calyx, the included stamens inserted into the broad base ; anthers oblong; 

 capsule globose, cells about 7-ovuled.— Sandy sage-plain near the Big Bend 

 of the ,Truckee, Nevada ; May. Plate XXVI. Fig. 16. Plant ; natural 

 size. Fig. 17. Flower, laid open ; enlarged two diameters. Fig. 18. Mature 

 capsule ; enlarged four diameters. (929.) 



Polemonium confertum, Gray ; /. c, p. 280. Perennial, a span or less 



