Gilia. POLEMONTACEJE. 137 



(a quarter inch or less long) : flowers effusely paniculate : calyx-teeth short and broadly 

 triangular: corolla pink purple, short-funneli'orm, 5 lines long; its lobes fully as long as 

 the tube, unequal, about equalling the incurved filaments and style. Proo. Am. Acad. 

 1. c., & Bot. Calif, i. 021. With or near the preceding species, Palmer. 



4. GfLJA, Ruiz. & Pav. (Dedicated to Philip Gil, who helped Xuarez to 

 write a treatise on exotic plants cultivated at Rome.) --North American, chiefly 

 Western, with a few S. American species ; several cult, for ornament. Flowers 

 in some species, especially in 3 and 9, tending to dimorphism, mainly in the 

 length of the style. A polymorphous genus : most of the sections have been 

 taken for genera, but they lack definiteness. Gray, Pror. Am. Acad. viii. 2(J1. 



SERIES I. Leaves either opposite or palmately divided to the sessile base, 

 usually both ; their divisions from narrowly linear to filiform : seed-coat in many 

 species mucilaginous when wetted, but destitute of spiricles. 



1. DACTYLOPI-IYLLUM, Gray, 1. c. Corolla campauulate, rotate, or short-fun- 

 nelform; the lobes obovate : filaments slender: ovules numerous or sometimes 

 few in each cell : seed-coat when wetted developing more or less mucilage-cells 

 from beneath the epidermis : low or slender annuals, loosely and mostly rather 

 small-flowered : leaves opposite or the upper alternate. 



* Flowers snbsessile or short-pedicelled in the forks of the stem, at length crowded: calyx deeply 

 cleft or parted, the lobes unequal : corolla campanulate with hardly any proper tube (the filaments 

 inserted on its base); lobes entire or nearly so: plants barely 2 inches high, with 3-7 -parted 

 leaves. 



G. Parryee, Gray. Pubescent, much branched from the base, forming a tuft : leaves 

 short, 5-7-parted ; the divisions linear-acerose (barely quarter inch long) : calyx deeply 5- 

 cleft; lobes acerose with broad thin-scarious margins: corolla (white, yellowish or purple, 

 half an inch long) with broadly ovate somewhat pointed lobes as long as the undivided 

 portion ; the throat below each crowned as it were by a broad adnate and emarginate or 

 obcordate scale : anthers oblong : capsule oval-oblong, many-seeded : seeds angular, not 

 mucilaginous when wetted. Proc. Am. Acad. xi. 76. G. Kennedy!, Porter in Bot. Gazette, 

 ii. 77. Desert Plains, S. E. California : near the head of the Mohavc, Lemmon, Parry, Pal- 

 mer. Kern Co., W. L. Kenned//. Dedicated to Mrs. Parry, one of the botanical party which 

 discovered it. A handsome pygmy annual ; remarkable for having appendages to the 

 corolla not unlike those of many HydrophyllacecR. 



G. demissa, Gray. Less pubescent, diffusely branching, forming a depressed tuft: 

 leaves 3-parted, or some of them simple (half inch long) ; the divisions acerose: calyx 5- 

 parted: corolla (white, sometimes purplish, 3 lines long) with obovate obtuse lobes and a 

 naked throat: anthers oval : ovules 6 or 7 in each cell. Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 263, & Bot. 

 Calif, i. 489; Rothrock in Wheeler Rep. 1. 19. Desert plains, S. E. California and W. 

 Arizona to S. Utah, first collected by Fremont, next by Cooper. 



* * Flowers loose or scattered on slender or capillary pedicels: calyx barely 5 -cleft : corolla shorl- 

 fuimelform or approaching rotate, and with entire lobes: the filaments 'inserted in the throat: 

 anthers oval : leaves 3-7-parted, more or less hispidulous, or rarely glabrous. Gilia Dactylo- 

 phyllum, Benth. in DC. 



G. liniflora, Benth. Erect, at length diffuse, 6 to 18 inches high, nearly glabrous : 

 leaves Spurrey-like ; the divisions nearly filiform : flowers paniculate : pedicels 5 to 15 lines 

 long: corolla white or barely flesh-colored, somewhat rotate; its throat pubescent at base 

 of the filaments ; the obovate lobes thrice the length of the narrow tube, 3 to 5 lines long 

 in the larger forms : ovules in the cells 6 to 8. Benth. in Bot. Reg. no. 1622, & DC. 1. c. 

 315; Hook. f. Bot. Mag. t. 5895. California: rather common; passing freely into 



Var. pharnaceoides, Gray, 1. c., a smaller form, with capillary diffuse branches 

 and flowers of only half the size. G. pfuirnacenides, Benth. 1. c. ; Hook. Fl. ii. 74, t. 161. 

 California to Brit. Columbia and eastward to the Rocky Mountains; the smallest states 

 strikingly different from the original G. lu/iflora. 



G. pusilla, Benth. 1. c. Small, diffuse, 2 to 6 inches high, very slender : divisions of the 

 leaves filiform-subulate or acerose (3 to 5 lines long) : capillary pedicels 5 to 10 lines long : 



