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Title: Report of the geological exploration of the fortieth parallel
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: United States Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel (1867-1881) King, Clarence, 1842-1901 Hague, A. (Arnold), 1840-1917 Emmons, Samuel Franklin, 1841-1911 Hague, James D. (James Duncan), 1836-1908 Meek, F. B. (Fielding Bradford), 1817-1876 Hall, James, 1811-1898 Whitfield, R. P. (Robert Parr), 1828-1910 Ridgway, Robert, 1850-1929 Watson, Sereno, 1826-1892 Eaton, Daniel Cady, 1834-1895 Bien, Julius, 1826-1909, engraver
Subjects: Discoveries in geography Geology Mines and mineral resources Paleontology Botany Birds
Publisher: (Washington, D.C. : G.P.O.)
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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led.—Very variable. From the Platte to the Columbia, and southwardto Arizona and Southern California. Very frequent in the valleys and on thefoot-hills from the Sierras to the Wahsatch; 4-6,500 feet altitude; May-July. (923.) Var. sintata, Gray. Corolla larger, the tube more or less exserted, thelobes often 2 long and the stamens sometimes equaling them ; radical leavesoften simply pinnatifid.—Near Carson City and in Truckec Tass, Nevada ;April, May. (924.) Also, in the latter locality, a form with the stamens ex-ceeding the lobes. (925.) Specimens were also collected in Washoe Valley and in the TrinityMountains, Nevada, with the calyx and upper leaves glandular-viscid, thusapproaching Var. arenaria of the California coast, but with the white corollashorter. (926.) Gilia leptomeria, Gray; I.e., p. 278. Annual, low, (3-6,) diffuselymuch branched, obscurely glandular, otherwise glabrous; radical leavesspatulate or lanceolate, slightly pinnatifid with short pointed lobes, the cauline
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CATALOGUE. 271 alternate, mostly linear and entire, reduced on the branches to minute bracts;flowers numerous, very loosely panicled, the slender pedicels sometimesshorter than the calyx ; corolla nearly white, slender funnelform, approachingsaberform, \k to at length 3 long, the tube from once becoming twice thelength of the calyx and of the ovate sometimes sinuate-toothed lobes;stamens inserted in the sinuses, shorter than the lobes; ovules numerous;seeds small, h or less in length, the close coat without mucilage or spiricles.—Resembling depauperate forms of G. inconspicua, but well marked by thenarrower corolla and by the seeds. Truckee Pass of the Virginia Mountains,near Humboldt Lake, and in Unionville Valley, Nevada, and on StansburyIsland in Salt Lake ; May, June. Plate XXVI. Fig. 6. A plant; naturalsize. Fig. 8. A young flower. Figs. 7 and 9. Older flowers, with elongatedcorollas. Fig. 11. Mature opened capsule; all enlarged four diameters. (9*27.) Gilia jiicromeria, Gray ;

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