198 POLEMONUCEAE 



Pendleton. 904; Little Panoche Pass, San Benito Co., Hoover 3012; North Fork Lewis Creek, se. 

 Monterey Co., Jepson 2679; Alcalde, sw. Fresno Co., T. Brandegee ; San Emigdio Canon, Kern 

 Co., Davy 2019. Sierra Nevada: betw. Dunlap and Pinehurst, Fresno Co., Newlon 158; Cedar 

 Creek, Tulare Co., W. Fry 351; Laver's Mdw., Greenhorn Mts., Erames. Tehachapi Mts. : Keene, 

 Jepson 7186 ; Bear Mt., Jepson 7178. San Gabriel ilts. (w. end) : Tujunga Caiion, MacFadden 20r. 



Var. glutinosa (Benth.) Jepson. Leaves sometimes bipinnatifid, the lobes broader than in 

 var. ianthina; corolla 2 to 3 Unes broad; stamens unequal, the longer conspicuously exserted, the 

 filaments equally or somewhat unequally inserted on base of corolla-throat. — Coastal S. Cal. : San 

 Marcos Pass, Santa Tnez Mts., Hoffmann 793; Santa Barbara, Jepson 12,132; Ojai Valley, Ven- 

 tura Co., Thacher 75 ; Malibu, Los Angeles Co., Barter; Topanga, Los Angeles Co., Barter ; Eaton 

 Caiion, San Gabriel Mts., Peirson 153; Big Dalton Canon, San Gabriel Mts., Peirson 293; San 

 Bernardino foothills. Parish; San Jacinto Mts., Gondii; Temescal, Riverside Co., Hall 582; Palo- 

 mar Mt., Jepson 1513 ; Dehesa, San Diego Co., Spencer 63. South to L. Cal. 



Refs.— GiLlA GiLioiDES Greene, Erythea 1:93 (1893) ; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 425 (1901), 

 ed. 2, 330 (1911), Man. 797, fig. 774 (1925). CoUomia gilioides Benth., Hot. Reg. 19: sub t. 1622 

 (1833), type from Cal., Douglas. G. divaricata Nutt., Jour. Acad. Phila. n. ser. 1:155 (1848), 

 type loc. Monterey, Gambel. G. violacea Hel., Muhl. 1:56 (1904), type loc. Bonner Lake, Nevada 

 Co., Heller 6873. G. gilioides var. henthamiana Brand; Engler, Pfizr. 4=50; 93 (1907), type loc. 

 Grants Pass, Ore., Howell. G. gilioides var. greeneana Brand, I.e., type from Sonoma Co., Greene; 

 Jepson, Man. 797 (1925). G. gilioides var. integrifolia Brand, I.e., type loc. Pine Ridge, Fresno 

 Co., Hall 4" Chandler 67. Var. volcanica Jepson & Hoover. G. divaricata var. volcanica Brand, 

 I.e. 94, type loc. Volcano, Amador Co., Hansen 1764. Var. ianthina Jepson & Hoover, type loc. 

 Lodoga, w. Colusa Co., Jepson 16,271. Var. glutinosa Jepson, Man. 797 (1925). CoUomia glu- 

 tinosa Benth., I.e., type from Cal., Douglas. C. gilioides var. glutinosa Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 

 8:260 (1870). G. ^iuiinosa Gray, Syn. Fl. ed. 2, 2 : 408 (1880). 



G. trashiae Eastw.; Mlkn., Univ. Cal. Publ. Bot. 2:26 (1904), type loc. Santa Catalina Isl., 

 Trash; Jepson, Man. 796 (1925). The original description was based on two collections (both 

 Santa Catalina Isl.): the type collection (Trask) in the California Academy of Sciences Her- 

 barium is now destitute of flowers; the T. Brandegee collection in the University of California 

 Herbarium has no perfect flowers and none at all in situ. Knowledge of the corolla and stamens 

 is, in consequence, inadequate, but it is possible that both the Santa Catalina collections represent 

 very young plants, in which case the original diagnosis of the corolla might be specially inter- 

 preted. It may be remembered that in many Polemoniaceae, some time after the corolla-limb 

 attains its full diameter, the corolla-tube often elongates conspicuously. Aside from the little- 

 known flower, this may be said: In habit, branching, aspect and inflorescence, and especially in 

 leaves and pubescence Gilia traskiae agrees remarkably with various collections of Gilia gilioides 

 var. glutinosa. The pattern and the lobation of the pinnately divided leaves of the type collection 

 are matched by the leafage of Gilia gilioides var. glutinosa in such a collection as Eaton Canon, 

 San Gabriel Mts., Peirson 153. Both the villous spreading hairs and the very short hairs of Gilia 

 traskiae are closely matched by the pubescence in Peirson 153. These collections are also similar 

 in that the calyces in both are rather deeply cleft into ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate lobes. This 

 reference of the name Gilia traskiae is further confirmed by a recent flowering collection of Gilia 

 gilioides var. glutinosa in Hamilton Canon, Santa Catalina Island, Fosberg 15,413. 



8. GYMNOSTERIS Greene 



Diminutive annuals with leafless simple stems. Proper leaves none, the cotyle- 

 dons persistent, eonnate-perfoliate. Flowers few in terminal heads, the 4 bracts 

 united at base and forming a distinct involucre. Calyx-tube membranous, the lobes 

 lanceolate, slightly unequal, about as long as the tube. Corolla salverfoi-m or 

 slender-funnelform, white or yellow. Anthers sessile in the corolla-throat. Cap- 

 sule 3-celled, dehiscent, 10 to 18-seeded. — Species 3, North America. (Greek gym- 

 nos, naked, and steros, foundation or prop, referring to the leafless stem.) 



Cotyledons remote from involucre; involucre several (3 to 6) -flowered; style cleft %; var. par- 

 vula of 1. G. nudicaulis. 



Cotyledons closely subtending involucre or rarely somewhat removed; involucre 1 (or 3) -flowered; 

 style cleft to middle or a little below 2. G. minuscula. 



1. G. nudicaulis Greene var. parvula (Rydb.) Jepson. Plants 1 to 1% inches 

 high; involucre 3 to 4% lines long; corolla 3 to 4 lines long, its lobes acutish, V-? to 

 1/4 the length of the tube. 



Canon bottoms, 4000 to 5000 feet : east side of the Sierra Nevada in Nevada Co. 

 East to Colorado, north to eastern Oregon and to Idaho. Apr. -May. 



Loc. — Prosser Creek, Nevada Co., Sonne. 



