426 PHANEROGAMOUS PLANTS. 



6. GlLIA PUNGENS, Benth. 



Gilia pungens & G. Hooheri, Benth. in DC. Prodr. 9, p. 316. 



Cantua pungens, Torr. Ann. Lye. N. York, 2, p. 220. 



Phlox Hooheri, Dougl. in Hook. PI. Bor.-Am. 2, p. 73, t. 159. 



Hab. Upper Columbia, Washington Territory. — The original scanty 

 specimen of Cantua pungens, collected on Long's expedition to the 

 Rocky Mountains, is sufficient to show that it is identical with Phlox 

 Hooheri of Douglas, and, consequently, Gilia Hooheri of Bentham. 

 Like P. Calif ornica, it is shrubby, as stated by Hooker and Arnott, 

 and not herbaceous, as recorded in the Prodromus. According to 

 Dr. Pickering's notes, this species in favorable situations grows a foot 

 or two high, and forms thickets, which are almost impenetrable 

 from the rigid branches and pungent leaves. 



5. POLEMONIUM, Linn. 



1. POLEMONIUM C^ERULEUM, Linn. 



Hab. Between the Spokane and the Kooskooskee Rivers. — Plant 

 from two to four feet high. 



2. POLEMONIUM HUMILE, WUld. 



Hab. Eastern base of the Cascade Mountains, Washington Ter- 

 ritory. — Plant 4 to 6 inches high. [This, the P. pulcherrimum of 

 Hooker, with its allied forms, was referred to the preceding species. 

 Had the manuscript been revised by the author, it would probably 

 have been distinguished as above, and other changes made in con- 

 formity with the Revision of North American Polemoniacese, in 

 Proc. Am. Acad., referred to above.] 



