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tion of stamens, I have ventured to transfer this species to the former genus, 

 where it naturally falls into Dr. Gray's section Phloganthea, and forms a link 

 of transition between the two genera. It may be here remarked that the 

 character of Gilia given by Bentham and Hooker (Genera, 2, p. 822), "semina 

 nunguam spirUlifera n i is evidently an oversight, since Dr. Gray, whose 

 elaboration of the genus is adopted in full, restricts it to the species with 

 opposite and palmately-cleft leaves. 



Gilia nudicaulis, Gray (Watson, /. c. p. 264). — South Park, Colo- 

 rado, 1873, Wolf. 



Gilia Nuttallii, Gray (Watson, /. c. p. 264). — Oro City, Colo., July, 

 1873, Wolf (682); Arizona, 1873, Loew (164 a). 



Gilia pungens, Benth. — Denver, Colo., June, 1873, Wolf; Nevada, 

 1871, 1872, Watson's Rep. 



Gilia debilis, Watson (Am. Naturalist, 7, p. 302; Report for 1871, 

 1872). — Stems short and slender, 1-2 inches high, leafy above; pubescence 

 minute or hirsute; leaves alternate, A— 1 inch long, oblong, attenuate into a, 

 short petiole, entire, or some of them broader and 3-lobed ; bracts entire, 

 resembling the leaves, twice longer than the calyx ; flowers nearly sessile ; 

 calyx with ovate-triangular teeth, shorter than the tube; corolla funnel- 

 form, 8 lines long, with elongated tube and deeply-lobed limb, light purple; 

 stamens upon the throat exserted ; capsule 1 line long, the cells 1-seeded ; 

 seeds without mucilage or spiricles. — Southern Utah, 1871, 1872. — Plate 

 XIX, Fig. A. Natural size. Figure 1. Flower, and, 2, Corolla split open, 

 each enlarged about 5 diameters. 



Gilia demissa, in the same plate, not being collected by the Expedi- 

 tion, is not described. See Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Am. part 1, p. 137. 



Gilia densifolia, Benth. (Watson, I. c. p. 468). — A foot or two high, 

 from a perennial root ; stems virgate from a woody base, leafy to the top ; 

 leaves rigid, linear, laciniate-pinnatifid or incised, the short lobes few or 

 several, subulate ; flowers numerous, in a compact head ; corolla over half 

 an inch in length, violet-blue, two or three times the length of the calyx 

 (the lobes three lines long); anthers linear-sagittate; ovules several (Gray, 

 in Bot. Cal. 1, p. 495).— Nevada, ) 871, 1872. 



