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Kefs. — GiLiA scOPULORUM Jones, Bull. Torr. Club, 8:70 (1881), type loc. St. George, Utah, 

 Jones. G. scopulorwii var. covillei Brand; Engler, Pflzr. 4"'''':109 (1907), type loc. Funeral Mts., 

 Inyo Co., Coville 450. G. tenuiftora var. triceps Brand, I.e. 102, as to Coville 620, the second cited 

 coUectlon. 



8. G. capitata Dougl. Globe Gilia. (Fig. 382.) Stem simple or eommouly 

 strictly branched above, slender, 73 to 3 feet high, the leaves both basal and cauline, 

 the cauline gradually reduced upwards ; herbage glabrous to puberuleut, sometimes 

 minutely glandular; leaf-blades 1 to 4 inches long, pinnate to bipinnate with linear 

 lobes 1 line to II/2 inches long, petioled, the petioles 2 to 12 lines long; flowers in 

 terminal usually spherical heads, the heads dense, 5 to 8 (or 11) lines broad, borne 

 on long (2 to 13 inches) naked peduncles ; calyx glabrous to thinly woolly, typically 

 turbinate, cleft half-way, ruptured in fruit, its 

 lobes lanceolate ; corolla funnelf orm, white to blue, 

 purple or lavender (but, whatever the color, 

 usually pale), 3 to 4 lines long, its lobes linear; 

 stamens exserted, the filaments inserted in the 

 corolla-sinuses, the anthers blue; capsule ovate, 

 several-seeded; seeds showing spiricles when 

 wetted. 



Open slopes and sandy or loamy flats, 50 to 

 5000 (or 8000) feet: North Coast Ranges from 

 Marin and Solano Cos. to Siskiyou Co. ; Sierra Ne- 

 vada from Mariposa Co. to Shasta Co. North to 

 Washington. Apr.-Aug. 



Loes. — North Coast Ranges: Mt. Tamalpais, Jepson; 

 Bodega, Sonoma Co., Chandler 696; Santa Rosa, M. S. 

 Baher 593; Howell Mt., Napa Range, Jepson 15,073; Col- 

 lins Camp, Vaca Mts., Jepson 15,078 ; Bartlctt Mt., n. Lake 

 Co., Jepson 18,925 ; Yorkville, s. Mendocino Co., W. I. 

 Follett 89; South Mill Creek, se. of Ukiah, Jepson 3009; 

 Fort Bragg, Mathews 70 ; Round Valley, ne. Mendocino Co., 

 GoMard 618; Alder Sprs., w. Glenn Co., Heller 11,453; 

 Paskenta, sw. Tehama Co., Virginia Bailey ; Look Prairie, 

 Bull Creek, Humboldt Co., Constance 621 ; Rosewood, w. 

 Tehama Co., Jepson 15,075 ; French Camp Ridge, Hum- 

 boldt Co., Tracy 13,995; Trinity Summit, Tracy 14,345; 

 Cedar Creek Flat, Del Norte Co., R. Van Veventer 234; 

 Marble Mt., w. Siskiyou Co., Jepson 2832 ; Yreka, Butler 

 741. Sierra Nevada: Yosemite, Jepson 15,079; Kennedy 

 Mdw., e. Tuolumne Co., A. L. Grant 217; Rich Gulch, Plu- 

 mas Co., TV. I. Follett 79; Colby, Butte Co., E. M. Austin 

 833; Goose Valley, Shasta Co., Balcer # Nutting. 



Refs. — Gilia capftata Dougl.; Hook., Bot. Mag. t. 2698 (1826), type loc. Ft. Vancouver, 

 Wash., Oott^!a5; Jepson, Fl.W. Mid. Cal. 426 (1901), ed. 2, 331 (1911), Man. 795 (1925). G. pal- 

 lida Hel., Muhl. 1 :43 (1901), type loc. Petrified Forest, Sonoma Co., Heller 5739. G. glandulifera 

 Hel., Muhl. 2:114 (1906), type loc. Redding, Shasta Co., Heller 7868 (isotyp. vidi). G. capitata 

 var. glandulifera Brand, Ann. Conserv. et Jard. Bot. Geneve 15 & 16:331 (1913). G. tenuisecta 

 Hel., I.e. 2 :115, type loc. Redding (3 mi. ne.), Shasta Co., Heller 7898. G. capitata var. irisperma 

 T. Bdg.; Brand in Engler, Pflzr. 4250:112 (1907), type loc. Trinity Co., Eastwood. 



Fig. 382. Gilia capitata Dougl. 

 a, cauline leaf, X % ; 6, infl., X % ; 

 c, fl., X 3. Drawn from Douglas 

 type. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 

 (Herb. Benth.). 



9. G. staminea Greene. (Fig. 383.) Range Gilia. Stems erect, branching, 

 % to 21/4 feet high, puberuleut and often minutely glandular or glabrate, the peti- 

 oles often villous-arachnoid, the blades glabrous; leaf-blades V2 to 3^2 inches long, 

 pinnately or mostly bipinnately divided into linear lobes 2 to 8 lines long; petioles 

 very short to as long as the blade; heads densely globose or somewhat 2 or 3-lobed, 

 commonly % to l^A inches broad (commonly larger than in 6. capitata) ; calyx 

 densely woolly, sometimes glabrate, its tube with broad membranous intervals be- 

 tween the ribs, its lobes broadly membranous-winged and in this way ovate and 

 abruptly acuminate-cuspidate, I/2 to as long as the tube ; corolla blue or whitish. 



