Tas. 5895. 
GILIA LINIFLORA. 
Native of California. 
Nat. Ord. PoLEMONIACER. 
Genus Gina, Ruiz and Pavon ; (A. Gray in Proc. Amer, Acad., 
June, 1870, p. 261). 
Gita (Dactylophyllum) /iniflora; annua, gracilis, erecta, divaricatim ra- 
mosa, parce pilosa, foliis sessilibus 3-7-palmatisectis caulinis oppositis, 
segmentis anguste linearibus v. acicularibus, floribus sparsis v. sub- 
cymosis, pedicellis filiformibus, calyce campanulato dentibus triangulari- 
subulatis tubo brevioribus v. equilongis, corolla alba fere rotata lobis 
obovatis calycem tersuperantibus, filamentis summo tubo insertis 
gracilibus basi pubescentibus. 
Gix1a liniflora, Benth. in Bot. Reg., sub. t. 1622; et in DC. Prod., vol. ix. 
p- 315. <A. Gray l. ¢., p. 263. 
One of the many interesting discoveries of the late David 
Douglas, in 1826; introduced into cultivation by Mr. W. 
Thompson, of Ipswich, who sent flowering specimens to Kew, 
in July, 1869, from which the accompanying figure was 
made. It isa perfectly hardy annual, and very free flowerer, 
in habit resembling a white-tlowered flax, with the leaves of a 
Spergula. 
The genus Gilia, as recently reformed by Asa Gray in the 
Proceedings of the American Academy of Science, contains 
sixty-five temperate N. American species, and there are be- 
sides a few in subtropical S. America ; one of these, the Chilian 
G. pusilla, being very closely allied to, if not identical with 
the N. American G. pharnaceoides, which Gray has reduced 
to a variety of Jinifora. As thus reconstructed Glia includes 
Leptosiphon, of which a species was figured last year in this 
Magazine (Tab. 5863), and various other genera, most of 
which had indeed been previously brought under Gilia by 
APRIL Ist, 1871. 
