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10. Gilia multicaulis Benth. Many-stemmed Gilia. Fig. 4020, 



Gitia multicaulis Benth. Bot. Reg. 19: under pi. 1622. 1833. 

 Gilia multicaulis var. tenera A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 8: 278. 1870. 

 Gilia multicaulis \ar. alba Milliken, Univ. Calif. Pub. Bot. 2: 35. 1904. 

 Gilia multicaulis subsp. eu-multicautis Brand, Pflanzenreich 4^^: 109. 1907. 

 Gilia multicaulis subsp. eu-multicaulis var. alba Brand, op. cit. 110. 

 Gilia multicaulis var. clivorum Jepson, Fl. Calif. 3: 187. 1943. 



Erect annual, 1-4 dm. tall, stems slender, lightly to densely puberulent or glabrate, rarely 

 villous, usually densely stipitate-glandular above, simple or branched from near base or above. 

 Basal leaves sometimes in rosette, glabrous or pubescent as on stems, simple-pinnate or bipinnate, 

 2-8 cm. long, rachis and lobes filiform to rarely 1.5 mm. broad, 2-15 mm. long, often minutely 

 cuspidate; cauline leaves like the basal except becoming shorter above, the uppermost simple- 

 pinnate with few lobes; flowers in terminal, 2-6-flowered glomerules ; pedicels 1-6.5 mm. long, 

 elongating in age; calyces usually densely puberulent or stipitate-glandular, rarely villous, 2.5-6 

 mm. long in flower, becoming 4.5-8 mm. in fruit, lobes joined in lower one-half to two-thirds 

 by a narrow, purple membrane which also flanks them above; corolla funnelform, 5-10.5 mm. 

 long, tube 1.5^ mm. long, throat 1-3.5 mm., lobes 1-4 mm., pale or deep blue-violet with throat 

 and tube lighter or yellow, often with five purple spots in the throat ; stamens inserted in the 

 sinuses of the corolla-lobes, and exceeded by them (0.5-2 mm. long) ; anthers blue; style shorter 

 than to subequal to corolla ; stigma 0.5-1.5 mm. long; capsule ovoid, 4-7 mm. long, 3-celled, with 

 several to numerous brown seeds in each cell. 



Sandy or gravelly areas, Transition Zone; Outer and Inner Coast Ranges, Colusa and Yolo Counties, 

 California, south to San Diego County and Lower California; inland to western San Bernardino and Riverside 

 Counties; Santa Cruz Island. Type locality: California. Collected by Douglas. March-May. 



Gilia multicaulis subsp. millefoliata (Fisch. & Mey.) Mason & Grant, Madrono 9: 209. 1948. (Gilia 

 millefoliata Fisch. & Mey. Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. 5: 35. 1838; G. millefoliata v&r. maritima Brand, Pflanzen- 

 reich 4^: 100. 1907; G. multicaulis var. millefoliata Jepson, Man. Fl. PI. Calif. 796. 1925.) Stems stout, often 

 much-branched from base, densely glandular-pubescent; leaves somewhat fleshy, simple-pinnate to bipinnate, the 

 primary lobes 2-10 mm. long, 0.6-1.5 mm. broad, secondary lobes to 4 mm.; calyces 5-7 mm. long in flower, 7- 

 11.5 mm. in fruit, glandular as the stems; corolla 5-7 mm. long, throat yellow with 5 prominent, dark purple spots; 

 mature capsules 6-8.5 mm. long, exceeded by calyx. Seacoast sand dunes, Lincoln County, Oregon, to San Fran- 

 cisco, California. Type locality: Bodega, Sonoma County, California. 



Gilia multicaulis subsp. Nevinii (A. Gray) Mason & Grant, loc. cit. (Gilia multicaulis var. millefolia A. 

 Gray ex S. Wats. Proc. Amer. Acad. 11 : 118. 1876; G. Nevinii A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Amer. ed. 2. 2^ : 411. 1886; 

 G. multicaulis var. Nevinii Jepson, Man. Fl. PI. Calif. 796. 1925.) Stems stout and glandular as in subsp. mille- 

 foliata, but leaves bipinnate to tripinnate and finely cut, the primary lobes 4.5-23 mm. long, 0.1-0.5 mm. broad, 

 the secondary lobes 2-7.8 mm. long; calyx 5.5-8.5 mm. long in flower, 6.4-8.2 mm. in fruit, glandular as the 

 stems; corolla 10-13 mm. long, the tube 3.5-7 mm., throat not purple-spotted; mature capsules 6.5-8 mm. long. 

 San Clemente Island, California, and Guadalupe Island, Lower California. Type locality: San Clemente Island, 

 California. 



Gilia multicaulis subsp. peduncularis (Eastw.) Mason & Grant, loc. cit. (Gilia peduncularis Eastw. ex Mil- 

 liken, Univ. Calif. Pub. Bot. 2: 34. 1904; G. pedunculata Eastw. Bot. Gaz. 37: 446. 1904; G. pedunculata var. 

 calycina Eastw. op. cit. 447 ; G. pedunculata var. minima Eastw. loc. cit. ; G. peduncularis var. typica Brand, 

 Pflanzenreich 4-™: 107. 1907; G. peduncularis var. typica subvar. calycina Brand, op. cit. 108; G. multicaulis var. 

 peduncularis Jepson. Fl. Calif. 3: 187. 1943.) Stems slender, less leafy than typical G. multicaulis; flowers soli- 

 tary at tips of elongate pedicels. Contra Costa County to Santa Barbara County, California. Type locality: Du- 

 tard's Ranch and Olano Creek, near boundary between Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo Counties, California. 



n. Gilia tricolor Benth. Tricolor Gilia. Fig. 4021. 



Gilia tricolor Benth. Bot. Reg. 19: under pi. 1622. 1833. 



Erect annual, 0.5-3 dm. tall, stems simple or branched, lightly pubescent or villous to glabrate, 

 usually densely stipitate-glandular or puberulent above and on pedicels and calyces. Lower 

 leaves 1 .5-10 cm. long, sometimes forming rosette at base, bipinnately lobed, the rachis and lobes 

 filiform, glabrous, to lightly pubescent or villous ; upper leaves somewhat shorter, becoming re- 

 duced and bract-like in the inflorescence ; inflorescence a terminal, 2^ flowered cyme ; pedicels 

 1-4 mm. long and elongating in fruit; calyx 4-6.5 mm. long, usually exceeding the pedicel and 

 elongating with and exceeding the capsule, lobes bordered and joined in lower one-half to two- 

 thirds by a narrow purple membrane ; corolla broadly funnelform, 10-19 mm. long, tube 2-5 mm. 

 long, yellow, throat 5-7 mm., bearing five irregular, deep purple spots which often merge into a 

 ring, lobes 3-8 mm., light blue-violet at the tips and lighter or yellowish within ; stamens equal 

 to subequal, 2-3 mm. long, inserted in sinuses of corolla-lobes and exceeded by them ; anthers 

 light blue ; style shorter than to subequal to corolla ; stigma-lobes 1-2 mm. long ; capsule ovoid, 

 4-6 mm. long ; seeds small, brown, several in each cell. 



Valleys, LTpper Sonoran Zone; Coast Ranges from Humboldt County, California, south to San Luis Obispo 

 County; Sierra Nevada foothills, Butte County to Mariposa County; Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys. Type 

 locality: California. Collected by Douglas. March-May. 



Gilia tricolor subsp. diffusa (Congdon) Mason & Grant, Madroiio 9: 209. 1948. (Gilia diffusa Congdon, 

 Erythea 7: 186. 1900; Gilia tricolor var. longipedicellata Greene, Rhodora 6: 154. 1904; Gilia inconspicua subsp. 

 sinuata var. oreophila subvar. diffusa Brand, Pflanzenreich 42^": 105. 1907.) Flowers solitary, borne on elongate 

 pedicels (1-4 cm. long); calyces always exceeded by pedicels; corollas generally smaller than in typical Gilia tri- 

 color (7-14.5 mm. long); plants often diffusely branched. Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys, (California, and 

 bordering Inner Coast Ranges and Sierra Nevada foothills from Tehama County on the west and Placer County on 

 the east, south to the Tehachapi Mountains. Type locality: New Coulterville Road, Mariposa (County. 



12. Gilia ochroleiaca M. E. Jones. Desert Gilia. Fig. 4022. 



Gilia ochroleuca M. E. Jones, Contr. West. Bot. No. 8: 35. 1898. 



Gilia inconspicua subsp. eu-inconspicua var. ochroleuca Brand, Pflanzenreich 4-"''': 105. 1907. 



Erect annual, 0.5-3 dm. tall, stems paniculately branched, woolly-pubescent to glabrous 



