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leaflike bracts; leaves with 3 narrowly linear spinulose lobes, the segments unequal; 
corolla salverform, the tube longer than the sepals; capsules not distending the calyx, 
several-seeded. 
1. Eriastrum filifolium (Nutt.) Woot. & Standl. Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 16: 160. 
1913. 
Gilia filifolia Nutt. Journ. Acad. Phila. IT. 1: 156. 1848. 
Navarretia filifolia Brand in Engl. Pflanzenreich 27: 167. 1907. 
Type LocaLity: Near Santa Barbara, California. 
Rance: Washington and California to New Mexico and western Texas. 
New Mexico: Nutt Mountain; Crawfords Ranch; Mesilla Valley; Organ Mountains. 
Dry plains, in the Lower Sonoran Zone. 
2. COLLOMIA Nutt. 
Erect annual with alternate entire leaves and small flowers crowded at the top of the 
stem; calyx scarious between the lobes, not distended by the capsule; corolla tubular- 
funnelform with open throat and short obtuse lobes; stamens unequal, unequally in- 
serted on the corolla tube; capsules narrowed at the base; seeds mucilaginous when 
wetted, emitting spiracles. 
1. Collomia linearis Nutt. Gen. Pl. 1: 126. 1818. 
Gilia linearis A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 17: 223. 1882. . 
Typr Locauity: ‘Near the banks of the Missouri about the confluence of Shian 
River, and in the vicinity of the Arikaree village.” 
RanGE: British Columbia and North Dakota to California, New Mexico, and Ne- 
braska, 
New Mexico: Tunitcha Mountains; Chama; Santa Fe and Las Vegas mountains, 
Meadows in the mountains, Transition Zone. 
3. POLEMONIUM L. 
Perennial herbs 1 meter high or less, with pinnate leaves and blue, purplish, white, 
or yellow flowers in panicles or glomerate terminal clusters; calyx rotate-campanulate 
to tubular, not scarious between the herbaceous lobes; corolla narrowly funnelform to 
campanulate or almost rotate; stamens equally inserted, the filaments more or less 
declined, pilose-appendaged at the base; capsules oblong to globose, not bursting 
from the persistent calyx; seeds black or brown, oblong, often angled or winged. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
Corolla funnelform. 
Corolla purple, the tube thick.............-..-..-----++--- 1. P. confertum. 
Corolla ochroleucous, the tube slender...................-- 2. P. mellitum. 
Corolla campanulate to nearly rotate. 
Corolla yellow..... 2.222.222.0220. 2 cece eee e ee eee eee eee eeee 3. P. flavum. 
Corolla blue, rarely white, never yellow. 
Plants low, 10 to 20 cm.; flowers pale blue. 
Seeds not winged..........-.------------eee- eee 4, P. scopulinum. 
Seeds narrowly winged..............-.-.-------- 5. P. pterospermum. 
Plants tall, 40 to 100 cm.; flowers deep blue. 
Inflorescence narrow, thyrsiform; leaflets lanceo- 
late, attenuate, rather distant............... 6. P. filicinum. 
Inflorescence broad and open; leaflets elliptic, less 
acute, 
Corolla about 20 mm. long; leaves and lower 
part of the stem glabrous............... 7. P. grande. 
Corolla 10 to 12 mm. long; leaves and stem vis- 
cid-pubescent..........----.---------4- 8. P. molle. 
