GENUS 3. 



PHLOX FAMILY. 



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4 Gilia spicata Nutt. Spicate Gilia. Fig. 3475. 



Cilia spicata Nutt Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. (II.) i : 

 156. 1848. 



Perennial, woolly-tomentose ; stems erect, rather stout, 

 simple, solitary, or 2-4 from the woody root, 6'-i8' high. 

 Leaves alternate, narrowly linear, pinnately parted into 

 3-5 linear segments, or some or many of them entire, 

 i'-2' long; flowers in an elongated narrow spicate 

 thyrsus, sessile in small clusters, purplish, 4"-6" long; 

 tube of the corolla somewhat exceeding the calyx, con- 

 siderably longer than the ovate-oblong lobes ; calyx- 

 lobes acuminate; anthers equally inserted in the throat. 



In dry soil, western Nebraska to Wyoming and Utah. 

 May-Aug. 



Gilia iberidifolia Benth. Round-headed 

 Gilia. Fig. 3476. 



Cilia iberidifolia Benth. in Hook. Kew. Journ. Bot. 

 3 : 290. 1851. 



Perennial by a deep root, woolly-tomentose, at 

 least when young, branched from the base or also 

 above, 3'-i8' high. Leaves mostly petioled, -2' 

 long, pinnately divided into 3-9 narrowly linear 

 sharp-pointed segments, or the uppermost entire; 

 flowers white, densely capitate-clustered, 2" 3" 

 long, the clusters bracted by the upper leaves, 

 i'-i' broad, sometimes corymbed ; calyx-lobes 

 awn-like; corolla-tube about the length of the 

 calyx, slightly longer than the oval lobes ; fila- 

 ments equally inserted in or below the sinuses of 

 the corolla; ovules 1-4 in each cavity. 



In dry soil, South Dakota to Nebraska, Colorado, 

 California, Montana and Idaho. In our first edition 

 included in the similar G. congesta Hook. May-Aug. 



6. Gilia pumila Nutt. Low Gilia. Fig. 3477. 



Cilia pumila Nutt. Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. (II.) 

 i: 156. 1848. 



Annual, branched from the base and sometimes 

 also above, woolly at least when young, 3'-8' high. 

 Leaves alternate, thick, i'-i' long, pinnately di- 

 vided into linear mucronulate sometimes lobed 

 segments, or the uppermost entire ; flowers in 

 dense or at length looser simple or compound 

 cymes, sessile ; corolla 3 "-4" long, its tube about 

 3 times the length of the lobes and twice as long 

 as the calyx ; calyx-lobes awn-like ; stamens in- 

 serted in or below the sinuses of the corolla, 

 somewhat exserted; ovules 5 or 6 in each cavity. 



In dry soil, western Nebraska to Texas, Idaho, 

 Nevada and New Mexico. April-June. 



Gilia tricolor Benth., of California, admitted into 

 our first edition as recorded escaped from gardens to 

 roadsides at Lincoln, Nebraska, is not known to have 

 become established within our area. 



