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elliptic, entire or with a few teeth ; flowers solitary or congested in few-flowered leafy glomerules 

 at ends of branches ; sepals acicular flanked by a membrane which unites to form a long pseudo- 

 tube ; corolla salverform to slightly irregular, white, the throat yellow, often speckled, tube 3-4 

 mm. long, lobes 1 mm. long; stamens inserted on tube, exserted, pistil included; capsule el- 

 lipsoidal, subequal calyx ; seeds 4 to 5 in each locule. 



Sonoran Zones; eastern Mojave Desert, California, east to Utah and Nevada. Type locality: Riverside, Utah. 

 April-May. 



5. Gilia gilioides (Benth.) Greene. Straggling Gilia. Fig. 4015. 



Collomia gilioides Benth. Bot. Reg. 19: under pi. 1622. 1833. 



Gilia divaricata Nutt. Journ. Acad. Phila. 1: 155. 1848. 



Gilia gilioides Greene, Erythea 1: 93. 1893. 



Gilia violacea Heller, Muhlenbergia 1 : 56. 1904. 



Gilia gilioides var. integrifolia Brand, Pflanzenreich 4*^: 93. 1907. 



Gilia gilioides var. Greeneana Brand, loc. cit. 



Gilia gilioides var. Benthamiana Brand, loc. cit. 



Microsteris gilioides var. Benthamiana Davids. & Moxley, Fl. S. Calif. 287. 1923. 



Gilia modocensis Eastw. Leaflets West. Bot. 2: 283. 1940. 



Gilia gilioides var. ianthina Jepson & Hoover in Jepson, Fl. Calif. 3: 197. 1943. 



Erect or decumbent annuals, often very much branched, sometimes simple, villous to glandu- 

 lar viscid. Lower leaves 2-7 cm. long, pinnately 3-9 lobed, the lobes narrowly lanceolate, entire or 

 irregularly toothed, sometimes in a basal tuft; cauline leaves pinnately 3-5-lobed, the terminal 

 elongate, the lobes lanceolate, entire or irregularly toothed; inflorescence of glomerules, each 

 2-6-flowered, either terminal or on short lateral branchlets ; pedicels 2-5 mm. long often 

 elongating with the growing capsule; calyx 3-4 mm. long, lobes linear acuminate, the mem- 

 branous pseudotube about one-half the calyx length; corolla 5-10 mm. long, about 2 times the 

 calyx, the tube and throat continuous, 2-4 times the lobes, 6 mm. long and the lobes 2-2.5 mm. 

 long, violet to purple or white; stamens unequally inserted on the upper half of throat, 0.5-2 mm. 

 long, included; capsule 3-4 mm. long, locules usually 1 -seeded, rarely 2-seeded. 



Mountains and valleys, Sonoran Zones to Canadian Zone; California, east into Nevada and north in Oregon. 

 Type locality: "California." Collected by Douglas. April-July. 



Gilia gilioides subsp. glutinosa (Benth.) Mason & Grant. Madroiio 9: 207. 1948. {Collomia glutinosa 

 Benth. Bot. Reg. 19: under pi. 1622. 1833; Gilia glutinosa A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Amer. ed. 2. 2^: 408. 1886; 

 G. gihotdes var. glutinosa A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 8: 260. 1870; G. Traskiae Eastw. ex Milliken, Univ. Calif. 

 Pub. Bot. 2: 26. 1904; Microsteris Traskiae Davids. & Moxley, Fl. S. Calif. 287. 1923; G. gilioides var. glutinosa 

 Jepson, Man. Fl. PI. Calif. 797. 1925.) Stamens conspicuously exserted. Southern and insular California to 

 Lower California. Type locality: "California." Collected by Douglas. 



Gilia gilioides subsp. volcanica (Brand) Mason & Grant, loc. cit. (Gilia divaricata var. volcanica Brand, 

 Pflanzenreich i^^: 94. 1907; G. gilioides var. volcanica Jepson & Hoover in Jepson, Fl. Calif. 3: 197. 1943.) 

 Corolla 12-22 mm. long, tube 9-16 mm., throat deep red-violet, lobe 3-6 mm., pale pink; stamens unequal, the 

 shortest 1.5-2 mm. long, the longest 4-6.5 mm., unequally inserted in upper one-third or one-fourth of tube, tlie 

 longest exserted. Coast Ranges, Lake County to Contra Costa County; western slope of Sierra Nevada from El 

 Dorado County to Tuolumne County, California. Type locality: Santa Lucia Mountains. 



6. Gilia latifolia S. Wats. Broad-leaved Gilia. Fig. 4016. 



Gilia latifolia S. Wats. Amer. Nat. 9: 347. 1875. 

 Navarretia latifolia Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 2: 433. 1891. 



Erect annual 5-20 cm. high, simple or much-branched. Leaves simple or pinnately lobed 

 with broad blade, teeth deltoid, rarely long-aristate, 5-12 cm. long, 1-5 cm. wide; petioles 1-5 cm. 

 long, glandular-pilose to viscid or glabrate; inflorescence open-paniculate to somewhat glomer- 

 ate ; bracts simple, linear to oblong and toothed or pinnately lobed or foliaceous ; sepals linear- 

 lanceolate, flanked on lower one-third to one-half by a sinus-membrane which is joined to form 

 a pseudotube; corolla narrow-funnelform, 6-11 mm. long, bright pink within, pale or buff out- 

 side, vespertine ; stamens included, subequally inserted on the middle of the corolla-tube, unequal, 

 filaments stout ; pistil included, stigma 3-lobed ; capsule ovoid to cylindric, 5-7 mm. long ; seeds 

 deep reddish-brown, numerous. 



east 



Lower Sonoran Zone; Mojave and Colorado Deserts from San Diego County to Inyo County, California, 

 to Nevada and Utah. Type locality: Virgin River Valley, Utah. March-May. 



7. Gilia Ripleyi Barneby. Ripley's Gilia. Fig. 4017. 



Gilia Ripleyi Barneby, Leaflets West. Bot. 3 : 129. 1942. 

 Gilia Gilmanii Jepson, Fl. Calif. 3: 192. 1943. 



Perennial subshrub, branching from the base, glutinous with capitate hairs. Leaves iliciform, 

 usually simple with a broad obovate blade and long aristate teeth, 2-6 cm. long, 1-4 cm. broad, 

 petioles 5-20 mm. long, glandular-pilose, withering-persistent; inflorescence cymose-paniculate ; 

 bracts linear to 3-lobed ; pedicels divaricately spreading ; calyx 4-5 mm. long, sepals aristiform, 

 sinus-membrane on lower half joined to form a pseudotube; corolla vespertine, 5-7 mm. long, 

 lobes elliptical, 2-3 mm. long, uniformly pink within and without, tube white, throat narrow; 

 stamens unequal, inserted subequally on lower part of tube, included; filaments stout, very 

 unequal; pistil included, style squamellate-pubescent, barely lobed; capsule ellipsoidal, 4-5 mm. 

 long, included in calyx ; seeds deep reddish brown, small and numerous in each locule. 



Crevices in calcareous rock, Lower Sonoran Zone; Panamint Mountains, California, to the Sheep Mountains, 

 Nevada. Type locality: Specter Range, Nye County, Nevada. May. 



