GILIA FAMILY 



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lanaupah Cauon, Panamint Mts., Jepson 7030; Emigrant Spr., Inyo Co., Parish 10,193; Argus 

 tange (n. end), C. N. Smith 136; SUver Canon, White Mts., Heller 8220. 



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Range (n. end), 



Eefs. — GiLiA FiLiroRMis Parry; Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 10:75 (1874), type from s. Utaii, 

 Parry; Jepson, Man. 799 (1925). Tintinabulum filiforme Rydb., Fl. Rocky Mts. 698 (1917). 



24. G. gracilis Hook. Beggar Gilia. (Fig. 387.) Stem erect, branched at 

 or above the base, often diffuse or frequently simple, usually 2 to 6 (or 12) inches 

 high, villous-pubeseent, the hairs commonly glandular ; leaf -blades l^ to 1 (or l^/^) 

 inches long, puberulent or often glabrous beneath, linear to lanceolate, entire, ses- 

 sile, the lowest often ovate or oblong and frequently shortly petioled; flowers few 

 or several in terminal cymes, the cymes usually dense ; calyx glandular-pubescent, 

 cleft % to Yo its length, much distended by the 

 enlarging fruit and split deeply or down to 

 the base in age, the subulate lobes usually 

 strongly recurved beneath the globose cap- 

 sule ; corolla red, pink or rarely white, salver- 

 form, 3% to 5 lines long, the tube shorter than 

 or usually little surpassing the calyx, the 

 throat or tube often yellow or greenish-yel- 

 lowish; corolla-limb 1 to l^/o (or 3) lines broad, 

 its lobes ovatish or roundish, emarginate or 

 entire; stamens included in the corolla-throat, 

 the filaments inserted in the throat, 1 or 2 

 higher than the rest; style included, very 

 shortly 3-cleft; capsule 1-seeded, the seeds 

 with a thin narrow margin. 



Open hills, sandy flats or opens in woods, 

 300 to 8600 feet : Coast Ranges from western 

 Siskiyou Co. to San Luis Obispo Co. ; Great 

 Valley; Sierra Nevada from eastern Siskiyou 

 Co. to Kern Co. ; east side of the Sierra Nevada 

 from Modoc Co. to Inyo Co.; Tehachapi Mts. ; 

 cismontane and intramontane Southern Cali- 

 fornia. South to Lower California, east to 

 New Mexico, Colorado and Montana, north to 

 Alaska. South America. Mar .-May. 



Geog. note. — In habit Gilia gracilis varies from 

 plants with slender erect simple stems to plants with 

 branched erect stems or to plants much branched and 

 extremely diffuse. Such variations are not associated 

 with other differences and have no obvious geographic correlations. Morphologically, as to herb- 

 age, flowers and fruit, and in the features of pubescence and glandulosity, the prevailing plant in 

 California is sufficiently constant to be taken as one unit. This prevailing form is one of vnde 

 dispersion in the various topographic areas of California, since it is absent only from the Colorado 

 and Mohave deserts. In Southern California it is both cismontane and intramontane, while in 

 the Sierra Nevada region it is both cismontane and transmontane. In the Sacramento and San 

 Joaquin valleys it is of rare occurrence. The following citations are mainly of the low often (as 

 compared with var. stricta) somewhat coarse plants which are glandular above and sometimes 

 glandular throughout. 



Locs. — Coast Ranges : Yreka, Butler 570 ; Black Butte, Sisson, Jepson 15,054 ; Summit Valley, 

 Del Norte Co., B. Van Deventer 151; Grouse Mt., Humboldt Co., Tracy 12,699; South Fork Mt., 

 Trinity Co., Jepson 16,060; Paskenta, sw. Tehama Co., Jepson 16,329; Larrabee Valley, Hum- 

 boldt Co., Tracy 8691; Lodoga, w. Colusa Co., Jepson 16,276; Ukiali, Purely; Davis Hills, Vaca- 

 ville, Jepson 15,051; St. Helena (hills e.), Jepson 15,056; Mt. Tamalpais, Chesnut ^ Drew; San 

 Bruno Hills, San Francisco, Jepson 15,053 ; Mt. Diablo, Jepson 9846 ; Mt. Hamilton, Jepson 4215 ; 

 San Benito Peak, San Carlos Range, Jepson 2717 (condensed dwarfs % inch high) ; Zapato Chino 

 Creek, sw. Fresno Co., Jepson 15,368; Carrizo Plain, Jepson 12,013; San Luis Hot Sprs., Condit. 

 Great Valley: Marysville Buttes, Jepson 15,057; College City, Colusa Co., Alice King; Tracy, 

 Hoover 1736; Kettleman Hills, Hoover 2933. Sierra Nevada: Bear Flat, se. Siskiyou Co., Jepson 

 20,120; Burney Valley, Shasta Co., Ba^er 4- Nutting ; Blairsden, Plumas Co., Eu-'on 8240; Smarts- 



Fig. 387. Gilia gracilis Hook, a, 

 habit, X 1/2; 6, fl., X 2; c, long. sect, of 

 corolla, X 2 ; d, capsule with recurving 

 calyx-lobes, X 2. 



