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pubescent below, glandular above or throughout. Lower leaves in rosette, glabrous or lightly to 

 densely woolly, sinuately toothed or lobed or bipinnately lobed, the cauline reduced, becoming 

 bract-like above, usually broad or ovate and toothed, the teeth shorter than the width of the 

 rachis ; inflorescence paniculately branched, the flowers single at ends of terminal or short lateral 

 branchlets, the pedicels glandular-dotted; calyx 2.5-5.2 mm. long, glandular-dotted, the lobes 

 joined in lower one-half to three-fourths by the sinus-membrane; corolla funnelform, 6-12.8 mm. 

 long, tube 3-6 mm., yellow or violet, throat 1.4-3.8 mm., yellow, lobes 1-4.2 mm. long, blue- 

 violet to violet or pink; stamens inserted in sinuses of corolla-lobes, 0.5-4.5 mm. long, usually 

 exceeded by corolla-lobes; style shorter or longer than corolla; stigma 0.5-1.3 mm. long; 

 capsule 4-5.5 mm. long, ovoid, containing numerous irregularly angled brown seeds in each cell. 



Arid Transition Zone; eastern Washington and Oregon, south in California and Nevada on the east slope 

 and just east of the Sierra Nevada, west through the Mojave Desert to Ventura County, California, and south 

 to Lower California. Type locality: near Okanogan on the Columbia River. Collected by Douglas. April-June. 



17. Gilia splendens Dougl. Splendid Gilia. Fig. 4027. 



Cilia splendens Dougl. ex Paxton, Paxton Mag. Bot. 3: 260. 1837. 



Cilia tenuiflora var. altissima Parish, Erythea 6: 90. 1898. 



Cilia tenuiflora subsp. eu-tenuiflora var. genuiiia subvar. altissima Brand, Pflanzenreich 4"'*: 102. 1907. 



Erect annual, 1-8 dm. tall ; stems stout and leafy below, slender and nearly naked above, 

 glabrate below, becoming increasingly glandular above, paniculately branched. Lower leaves 

 3-12 cm. long, bi- or tripinnate with slender rachis, the lobes not at all crowded, slender and 

 finely toothed or short-lobed, 0.4-2 cm. long, pubescent with coarse, translucent or silvery, 

 glandular hairs ; cauline leaves mostly much-reduced, simple, entire, bract-like ; flowers solitary 

 on glandular-dotted pedicels ; calyx 3-4 mm. long, exceeded by maturing capsule, lobes glabrous, 

 joined in lower two-thirds by sinus-membrane; corolla funnelform, 14-23 mm. long, rose or 

 bright pink, tube 3-7 mm. long, shorter than to subequaling throat, throat 5.5-8.5 mm., lobes 

 3.5-7.5 mm.; stamens inserted in sinuses of corolla-lobes, unequal to subequal, shorter than 

 corolla-lobes with filaments 0.5-2.5 mm. and anthers 0.8-1.2 mm.; style subequaling corolla; 

 stigrnas 1.5-2.5 mm. long; capsule oblong, 3.8-7.3 mm. long, 3-celled with 3 to many pitted 

 and irregularly-angled, brown seeds in each cell. 



Grassy slopes. Transition Zone; coastal mountains of California in central Monterey, Santa Barbara and 

 Ventura Counties to the San Gabriel, San Bernardino, and San Jacinto Mountains. Type locality: California. 

 Collected by Douglas. April-June. 



Gilia splendens subsp. Grinnellii (Brand) Mason & Grant, Madrono 9:213. 1948. (Cilia collina var. 

 Crantii Brand, Pflanzenreich 4-^: 101. 1907; Gilia Grinnellii Brand, loc. cit.; Cilia tenuiflora var. Grinnellii 

 Jepson, Fl. Calif. 3: 179. 1943.) Flowers longer (20-37 mm.) due to the elongate corolla-tube which much 

 exceeds the throat. San Gabriel and San Bernardino Mountains, California. Type locality: Switzers Trail, 

 Mount Wilson, Los Angeles County, California. 



Gilia splendens subsp. australis Mason & Grant, loc. cit. Capsules S-7 mm. long, corolla much shorter than 

 the species but with a proportionately longer limb. San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, California, to Lower 

 California. Type locality: Temecula Valley, Riverside County, California. 



18. Gilia caruifolia Abrams. Caraway-leaved Gilia. Fig. 4028. 



Cilia caruifolia Abrams, Bull. Torrey Club 32: 540. 1905. 



Gilia arenaria subsp. cxilis var. caruifolia Brand, Pflanzenreich ^^o; 104. 1907. 



Cilia latiflora var. caruifolia Jepson, Man. Fl. PI. Calif. 798. 1925. 



Cilia tenuiflora var. caruifolia Munz, Man. S. Calif. 394. 1935. 



Erect annual, 1-8.5 dm. tall ; stems at base glabrous or pubescent (as on leaves) or glandular, 

 the inflorescence glandular-dotted, paniculately branched from near base or above. Lower leaves 

 2-11 cm. long, bi- t)r tripinnate with slender rachis, the lobes not at all crowded, slender and 

 finely toothed or short-lobed, 2-14 mm. long ; pubescent with coarse, translucent or silvery 

 glandular hairs ; cauline leaves of inflorescence mostly reduced, small, and the uppermost usually 

 simple, entire, and bract-like; flowers solitary on glandular-dotted pedicels; calyx 2.7-3.8 mm. 

 long, exceeded by mature capsule, lobes glabrous to sparsely glandular-dotted, joined in lower 

 two-thirds by sinus-membrane; corolla funnelform, 7-12.5 mm. long, blue-violet, lavender, pale 

 pink or white, the throat apparently lighter and purple-dotted, tube 3-3.8 mm. long, throat 

 1.4-2.8 mm. (one-half to two-thirds as long as corolla-tube), lobes 2.7-6 mm.; stamens inserted 

 in middle of throat, unequal in length; filaments 2.5-5.7 mm. long, the longest well-exserted ; 

 anthers 0.5-1 mm. long; style shorter or a little longer than corolla; stigmas 1.5-2.5 mm. long; 

 capsule oblong, 4-5 mm. long; seeds numerous in each cell, dark brown, pitted and irregularly 

 angled. 



Arid Transition Zone; mountains of San Diego County, California, to Lower California. Type locality: 

 Cuyamaca Mountains, between Cuyamaca Lake and Oriflamme Canyon. April-May. 



19. Gilia stellata Heller. Star Gilia. Fig. 4029. 



Cilia stellata Heller, Muhlenbergia 2: 117. 1906. 



Cilia tenuiflora var. Ncwloniana Jepson, Fl. Calif. 3: 179. 1943. 



Erect annual, 1-4 dm. tall, stems stout, paniculately branched from near base or above, 

 pubescence of geniculate hairs below (as on leaves) becoming stipitate-glandular above. Lower 

 leaves bi- or tripinnately dissected, 2-10 cm. long, the lobes at broad angle to rachis, primary 

 lobes asymmetrically toothed or lobed, each tipped with a callous cusp, densely pubescent with 

 short, coarse, white, geniculate hairs ; upper leaves much-reduced, becoming bract-like above, 

 but not entire, the uppermost usually 3-cleft or toothed; inflorescence paniculate, the flowers 

 borne singly on short, stout, stipitate-glandular pedicels toward ends of branches; calyx 3.2- 



