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■with lanceolate, entire or toothed divisions ; upper leaves simple, 

 tapering to a petiole. Flowers at first in few-flovrered clusters, 

 later becoming panicled. Divisions of the calyx narrowly linear, 

 pointed, longer than the tube, glandular-villous. Corolla salver- 

 form, pink, with the slender tube twice as long as the calyx and 

 limb very small. Pod globular, minutely pitted, surpassing the 

 calyx tube. General Grant Park, Millwood. 



Qilia leptalea Gray. Annual, slender, with very slender, pan- 

 icled branches, 2 or 3 in. to a foot or more high, viscid pubescent. 

 Leaves narrowly linear, entire, pointed, about an inch long. 

 Flowers ^ in. long, terminating slender branches. Calyx small, 

 with slender lobes as long as the tube. Corolla funnel-form, with 

 the tube much longer than the calyx widening from the thread- 

 like base to the funnel-form throat ; divisions oblong. Stamens 

 exserted from the throat of the corolla. Pod oblong. General 

 Grant Park, Bearskin Meadow, Millwood. 



Qilia staminea Greene. Annual, branching, 1-2 ft. high, glan- 

 dular and sparingly clothed with woolly hairs. Leaves in a clus- 

 ter at base, with 7-1 1 slender divisions which are entire or lobed ; 

 petioles dilated at base ; stem leaves few, similar but sessile. 

 Flowers in heads which are somewhat paniculate on long and very 

 slender peduncles, having sometimes a minute bract near the mid- 

 dle, bractlets none. Divisions of the calyx tipped with a short 

 bristle, white or bluish. Corolla pale blue, the tube a little 

 longer than the calyx ; divisions obovate-oblong, narrow. Sta- 

 mens with white anthers conspicuously exserted. Pods globular, 

 as long as the cal}TC. Seeds developing mucilage and spiral 

 threads. Kings River Canon from the summit down, on the dry 

 hill side. 



Gilia virgata floribunda Gray. Annual with several stems 

 from the base, a few inches to a foot high, somewhat clothed with 

 cottony pubescence which becomes dense on the inflorescence. 

 Leaves with from 5-7 almost thread-like divisions with the apex 

 spine-tipped. Flowers in heads terminating the stems and 

 branches ; bracts and caljrx densely clothed with cottony wool at 

 base, with linear spiny divisions. Corolla salver-form, violet blue, 

 almost an inch long, the divisions half as long as the tube which 

 is twice as long as the calyx. Stamens and style conspicuously 

 exserted from the corolla. Pod linear-oblong, with few seeds. 

 Near Millwood and Converse Basin. A very beautiful species. 



Gilia pungens Hookeri Gray. Low and shrubby, forming 

 perennial mats a few inches high. Stems densely clothed with 

 clustered leaves ; these palmately cleft with the divisions spine- 



