Gilia. POLEMONIACE.E. 147 



G. debilis, W^atson. An inch or two high, minutely pubescent: leaves oblong, 2-3- 

 lobed or entire, tapering into a short petiole, shorter than the flowers : corolla two thirds 

 inch long ; the tube exceeding the calyx : lobes of the latter conspicuously 3-nerved : 

 stamens more or less and the style prominently exserted : " seed without mucilage or spi- 

 rides." Am. Naturalist, via. 302 ; Rothrock, in Wheeler Rep. t. 19. S. Utah, Wheeler. 



* * Ovules and seeds few or numerous in the cells. 

 H- Root annual. 



H- Corolla more or less funnelform. having a distinct tube : corolla from blue to purplish or some- 

 times white: flowers in the tirst species much crowded and short-peclicelled, in the last scattered. 



= Seeds developing mucilage and spiricles when wetted, mostly numerous : leaves once to thrice 

 pinnately divided or cleft : "herbage somewhat pubescent or glabrate. 



G. capitata, Dougl. Stem slender, a foot or two high, nearly glabrous : leaves 2-3-pin- 

 nately divided into slender or even filiform-linear lobes : flowers numerous in dense capitate 

 clusters terminating long naked peduncles : calyx glabrous or nearly so : corolla light blue 

 (4 or 5 lines long) ; its tube about the length of the narrowly oblong or lanceolate-linear 

 lobes and the nearly glabrous calyx, only slightly dilated at the throat : stamens inserted 

 in the very sinuses of the corolla. Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 2698; Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1170; 

 Brit, Fl. Gard. t, 287. W. California and Oregon. Common in gardens. 



G. achilleaefolia, Benth. Generally more pubescent and rather stouter than the pre- 

 ceding, and the head like flower-clusters larger and less compact : flowers larger : calyx 

 more or less woolly ; its lobes with short recurved tips : lobes of the violet-blue or lavender- 

 purple corolla obovate or broadly oblong; its throat abruptly and amply dilated. Bot. 

 Reg. no. 1G22, & Prodr. 1. c. 311; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 5939; Gray, Bot. Calif, i. 447. 

 Common throughout W. California. 



G. multicaulis, Benth. 1. c. A span to a foot high, at length diffuse : leaves mostly 

 twice pinnately parted into narrow linear lobes : flowers fewer and in a less dense shorter- 

 peduncled cluster than the preceding, some of the pedicels in fruit equalling the calyx : 

 corolla (4 lines long) violet ; its proper tube shorter than the calyx, and its obovate or 

 ovate lobes not longer than the funnelform throat: capsule ovoid. Gray, Bot. Calif. 

 i. 498. G. achillcKfo/ta, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1682 ; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3440 ; Brit. Fl. Gard. 

 n. ser. t. 280, not Benth. G. millefoliata, Fisch. & Meyer, Ind. Sem. Petrop. 1838, 35, a dif- 

 fuse and small-flowered form. G. stricta, Scheele in Linn. xxi. 755. Polcnwninm ccipittifum, 

 Eschsch. in Mem. Acad. Petrop. 1826? California, very common throughout the western 

 part of the State. 



Var. tenera, Gray, I. c., a depauperate and attenuated form, in dry and poor soil, 

 with peduncle more loosely 3-5-flowered, or even 1-flowered. G. stricta, Liebm. Ind. Sem. 

 Hafn. 1853 ? With tiie ordinary form. 



G. tricolor, Benth. A span to a foot or two high, mostly slender, paniculately branched, 

 at length diffuse : leaves (as of the preceding or more slender) and calyx, &c., usually more 

 viscid-pubescent : flowers few or several and short-pedicelled or snbsessile in cymulose 

 rather short-peduncled clusters : corolla (half inch long) twice or thrice the length of the 

 calyx, with very short and yellowish proper tube, ample campanulate-funnelform throat 

 marked with deep brown-purple, and lilac or violet roundish lobes which surpass the 

 stamens. --Hort. Trans, viii. t. 18; Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1701; Brit. Fl. Gard. n. ser. t. 264 ; 

 Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3463. California, throughout the western part of the State: common 

 in cultivation. 



G. latiflora. A span or two high, effusely paniculate, glabrous, and the inflorescence and 

 calyx sparsely glandular : radical leaves simply pinnatifid, linear-lanceolate (an inch or 

 two long), with short ovate or triangular and cuspidate-tipped lobes ; the canline few and 

 small or minute, all but the lowest entire and subulate : paniculate cyme very loose : pedicels 

 equalling or shorter than the flower: corolla (7 to 11 lines long) purple with yellowish or 

 brownish throat, dilated-funnelform, abruptly contracted below into a narrow tube which 

 slightly exceeds the calyx ; its lobes rounded-obovate : capsule ovoid. G. tenva.fl.ora, var. 

 latiflora, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 278, & Bot. Calif. I.e. California, San Diego and 

 Los Angeles Co., Fremont, Wallace, Palmer (402). 



G. tenuiflora, Benth. A foot or more high, slender, loosely paniculate above: radical 

 and lower leaves bipinnately parted or divided, or simply divided and the narrow divisions 



