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8. Gilia capitata Sims. Blue Field Gilia. Fig. 4018. 



1891. 



Gilia capitata Sims, Bot. Mag. 53: pi. 2698. 1826. 



Gilia capitata alba Orcutt, W. Amer. Sci. 7: 132. 



Gi/ia />a//tiio Heller, Muhlenbergia 1: 43. 1904. 



Gilia glandulifera Heller, op. cit. 2: 114. 1906. 



Cilia tenuisecta Heller, op. cit. 115. 



Gilia dissecta Heller ex Brand, Pflanzenreich 4^^: 111, as a synonym. 1907. 



Gilia capitata var. trisperma Brandg. ex Brand, op. cit. 112. 



Gilia capitatavar. glandulifera Brand, Ann. Conserv. & Jard. Bot. Geneve 15-16: 331. 1913. 



Erect annual 1 . 5-6 dm. tall, glabrous or sparsely pubescent, simple, racemosely or paniculately 

 branched. Lower leaves simple-pinnate or bipinnate, 1-6 cm. long, often in a basal rosette, lobes 

 5-12 mm. long, equal to or broader than rachis, glabrous or pubescent ; cauline leaves shorter or 

 longer than basal leaves, 2-8.5 cm. long, simple-pinnate or bipinnate with lobes 8-12 mm. long; 

 uppermost leaves simple-pinnate, reduced to 3-5 short segments ; flowers sessile in dense, globose, 

 capitate heads at ends of peduncles 5-7.5 cm. long; calyx glabrous, puberulent or arachnoid- 

 villous, 3-4 mm. long, cleft to base, but joined below middle by sinus-membrane; corolla 6-8 mm. 

 long, about 2 times as long as calyx, pale violet, often fading white; tube 2.5-3.5 mm. long, 

 throat 0.5-2 mm., always shorter than tube, lobes 2-4 mm., linear; stamens inserted m smuses 

 of corolla-lobes, equal in length and equal to or longer than corolla-lobes ; style shorter to longer 

 than corolla; stigma to 0.5 mm.; capsule plump, ovoid, 3-4 mm. long, dehiscing by sphttmg of 

 dorsal sutures from top downward, valves not recurving ; seeds brown, several to a cell. 



Sandy or gravelly areas, Upper Sonoran and Transition Zones; Vancouver, British Columbia, south through 

 the Coast Ranges to Marin and Contra Costa Counties, California, inland through Shasta County and south 

 through middle altitudes and foothills on west slope of the Sierra Nevada to Tulare County, California; Inner 

 Coast Ranges in Fresno County. Type locality : Fort Vancouver. Collected by Douglas. March-May. 



9. Gilia achilleaefolia Benth. California Gilia. Fig. 4019. 



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



Gilia achilleaefolia Lindl. Bot. Reg. 20: pi. 1682. 1834. 



Gilia stricta Scheele, Linnaea 21: 755. 1848. 



Gilia achilleaefolia var. alba Orcutt, W. Amer. Sci. 7: 132. 1891. 



Gilia abrotanifolia Nutt. ex Greene, Erythea 3: 104. 1895. 



Cilia multicaulis var. eximia Millikin, Univ. Calif. Pub. Bot. 2: 35. 1904. 



Gilia multicaulis subsp. eu-multicaulis var. stricta Brand, Pflanzenreich 4^^: 110. 1907. 



Gilia multicaulis subsp. eximia Brand, loc. cit. 



Cilia achilleaefolia subsp. abrotanifolia Brand, op. cit. 111. 



Erect annual 1-10 dm, tall, stems branching from near base or above, glabrous or villous or 

 glandular. Lower leaves 2-11 cm. long, often forming basal rosette, bipinnate or occasionally 

 simple-pinnate or tripinnate, the lobes linear, 3-15 mm. long, equal in width to rachis, glabrous 

 or, especially the rachis, villous ; inflorescence a capitate, congested panicle consisting of 5-25 or 

 more, rarely fewer, flowers on short pedicels, outline fan-shaped to round, depending upon num- 

 ber of flowers and length of pedicels; pedicels glabrous, stipitate-glandular or with same 

 pubescence as the calyx ; calyx 4-7 mm. long, glabrous or cobwebby-villous or with coarse trans- 

 lucent or glandular hairs, the lobes very narrow, acuminate, and often recurved at tips, joined in 

 lower two-thirds by a broad, hyaline membrane which is occasionally tinged with purple ; corolla 

 broadly funnelform, 8-16.5 mm. long, 2-3 times as long as calyx, violet or blue-violet, tube 

 2.5-5 mm. long, throat 3.5-5.5 mm., usually exceeding tube, lobes 2-6 mm. long, oval ; stamens 

 inserted in sinuses of corolla-lobes, and subequal to or shorter than corolla-lobes ; pistil included 

 or exserted, the stigma 1-2.5 mm. long; capsule ovoid, 4-6.5 mm. long, 3-celled with numerous, 

 irregularly angled, brown seeds in each. 



Sandy or gravelly areas, Upper Sonoran and Transition Zones; Contra Costa and Alameda Counties. Cali- 

 fornia, south in the Coast Ranges to San Diego County, California, and Lower California, and through the Te- 

 hachapi Mountains to the Greenhorn Mountains. Type locality: "California." Collected by Douglas. March- 

 May. 



Gilia achilleaefolia subsp. staminea (Greene) Mason & Grant, Madrofio 9: 208. 1948. (Cilia staminea 

 Greene. Erythea 3: 105. 1895; G. capitata var. staminea Brand, Pflanzenreich 4=«>: 111. 1907; C. capitata var. 

 achilleaefolia Mason ex Jepson, Man Fl. PI. Calif. 795. 1925.) Heads densely flowered, simple, elongate or 2 or 3 

 aggregated together, the flowers subsessile to sessile; buds characteristically spherical, densely arachnoid-villous or 

 floccose to glabrate, frequently only the tips of the calyx-lobes visible; stamens exceeding the corolla-lobes, often 

 conspicuously so; flowers pale violet; corolla-throat usually shorter than the corolla-tube. Antioch, Contra Costa 

 County, California, south through the San Joaquin Valley and its western borders to the Tehachapi Mountains; 

 southern California to San Diego County. Type locality: "interior of California." 



Gilia achilleaefolia subsp. Chamissonis (Greene) Brand, Pflanzenreich A^°: 111. 1907. (Cilia Chamis- 

 sonis Greene, Erythea 3: 105. 1895; G. achilleaefolia subsp. Chamissonis var. tomentosa Eastw. ex Brand, loc. 

 cit.; C. achilleaefolia var. Chamissonis Nels. & Macbr. Bot. Gaz. 61: 34. 1916; C. capitata var. regina Jepson, 

 Man. Fl. PI. Calif. 795. 1925; G. Chamissonis var. regina Jepson, FI. Calif. 3: 185. 1943.) Like the preceding 

 subspecies; flowers subsessile to sessile in dense heads, calyces villous or floccose; stamens not always longer than 

 corolla-lobes; flowers, including calyx, deep purple; stems stout and conspicuously glandular with a mephitic 

 odor; basal leaves in a prominent rosette. Seacoast sand hills, Humboldt County to San Luis Obispo County, 

 California. Type locality: sand hills of San Francisco. 



