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GILIA ACHILLEHFOLIA. MUILFOIL-LEAVED 
GILIA. 
‘Class and Order. 
PentanpriA Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Poxemoniaced. ) 
Generic Character. 
Cal. campanulatus, 5-fidus, margine et sinubus membra- 
naceis. Cor. infundibuliformis vel subcampanulata, limbo 
5-partito, laciniis obovatis integris. Stam. ad faucem v. 
vix intra tubum inserta. Anthere ovato-subrotunde. Cap- 
sule loculi polyspermi. Benth. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Gia achilleefolia; caule erecto glabriusculo, foliis bi- 
tripinnatisectis segmentis lineari-subulatis, corymbis 
capitatis multifloris longissime pedunculatis, calycibus 
sublanatis, corollis calyce duplo longioribus, stamini- 
bus corolla brevioribus. Benth. 
Guia achilleefolia. Benth. in Bot. Reg. fol. 1622. Lindl. 
Bot. Reg. t. 1682. 
A very pretty hardy annual, discovered by Mr. Davin 
Dovexas, in North California, and sent to the Horticultural 
Society, by whom it has been distributed to various gar- 
dens. ‘ It blossoms during the summer months, and resem- 
bles, as Professor Lanptey remarks, the Guiia capitata 
(Bot. Mag. t. 2698) ; but its flowers are much larger and 
of a more purple colour, and the stamens are not exserted. 
Descr. An upright, nearly glabrous, much branching 
plant, a foot or more high. Leaves alternate, deeply pin- 
natifid, sometimes bipinnatifid, the segments opposite, all 
linear, acute, the ultimate ones solitary on one side. Pe- 
duncles axillary and terminal, slender, bearing a ey oe of 
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